The Map Art Thread

This month I present: fenX

fenX was already a highly productive map maker before he found his way into this forum, and he immediately made an impact with lots of great looking maps and he blew me away with this awesome custom texture:


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While not the most productive map maker in this forum eTcetRa has proven himself as one of the most talented map artists... . - check out his highly refined doodad control as well as his excellent texturing skills:

No real introduction needed. We all know and love Mereel/Terranlover for his Terran-OP-imba rage as well as his top-notch artistic skills.

This month I present: dezi

We all know and love dezi, a custom maps forum veteran with more than 20 maps under his belt. dezi won MotM #1 with The Crucible, and since then he has reached top 5 several times, and we can often enjoy high level games on One Must Fall.
For some reason, dezi is not particularly known for his aesthetics, which is strange because they are certainly top notch!

This month I present to you: Samro255am:



While Sam is best known for his top notch maps such as Burning Altar or Cascade, he is also a top notch Map Artist. Unlike some of us he doesn´t go overboard and spam doodads & whatnot. You can always count on him to first and foremost focus on gameplay, however he will always deliver the whole package with great texturing and stunning map borders.

This month I present to you: JackyPrime



I still think Crevasse is one of the best looking maps ever made, and while Jacky doesn't post a much eye-candy as a lot of other mappers, all his stuff just looks great imo.

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This month I present to you: funcmode

funcmode won his first map making contest over a year ago over @ Nibbits, and since then he´s won 2 Map of the Month contests plus best map of MotM Season 1 (shared with Antares777´s Hysteria). Apart from pioneering the über-balanced rotational symmetry style (with equal 3rds in close positions), he´s certainly renowned for his aestethic skills.



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This month i present to you: WniO

WniO has been an active poster on TL for more than a year, posting lots of maps and pioneering assymetric layout as well as wild texture usage. Having won most attractive map award in MotM, he is also one of the most skilled in Map Art.

This month I present to you: Koagel

There´s no getting around Koagel. Apart from decorating a bunch of iCCup maps, he also contributed to the forum with texturing tutorials, pioneered some wild doodads usage and did some unique Map Art pieces.


-photo realistic drawing made entirely by grass textures.


-creative use of doodads.

Sceenshots from maps decorated by Koagel:+ Show Spoiler +

This month I present to you: LSPrime.

There´s no getting around LSPrime. Apart from being the lead supplier to GSL maps, he also finds time to support the mapping community, and even help map makers decorate their map borders.

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Screenshot from Brasilia by RainBell

From LSPrimes own maps:

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Screenshot from Dual Sight

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Screenshot from Black Forest

And last but certainly not least: Here is LSPrime showing off his incredible skills, using the editor to build a space ship of pure awesomeness:

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