Since some of you asked about the workflow . Here is how it was done.
The client wanted something similar to a project I did for their sister company in Montreal. However since I did not have a 3-D pictorial map of Quebec City, I proposed the idea to layover my usual illustration work on top of a ‘regular’ but specially prepared ‘street’ map.
I had never done a street map before, so I contacted François Goulet off this site to prepare a customized map of the area.
As he worked on that, I went to Quebec City and took pictures of all the various locations and roughly sketched out how it all laid out in pencil.
The funny thing here is that when I got there, the city was literally being buried alive under a major snowstorm. All my pictures, including the cemetery, were landscapes of white dunes with tiny little corners of buildings sticking out! T’was Katrina in snow.
Fortunately, thanks to a great feedback dynamic with the client and a lot of emailed jpgs, I was eventually able to piece it all together and build up all my illustrations in Photoshop.
The 3-D Mausoleum was also a first. I flirted with sketch-up but was not familiar enough with the program. I ended up doing it the old-fashioned way: Choosing an imaginary overhead view and visualizing it without a roof. It was rather difficult to squeeze in the accuracy for hundreds of numbered ‘plots’. This was done with a plain vector skeleton (no pun intended) in Illustrator, a lot of guidance from the client and a lot of tweaking. Once we were sure that anybody could accurately find their uncle Antoine’s final resting place (or that of his ashes!) I then ‘dressed it up’ and made it pretty with Photoshop. (Here, thankfully, my indoor reference pictures were not 90% snow)
Francois then gave me the city map that had been carefully delineated to cover and focus the critical area of the client’s locations. With his GIS wizardry, he was able to give me the map in Illustrator with all the different and specific layers I requested.
I then edited and deleted a lot of data clutter, transferred the layers in Photoshop and recoloured them to harmonize with the illustrations. Finally, I gave the whole map an oblique distortion and included a slight inner shadow on the ‘St-Lawrence river’ layer and a drop shadow on the position numbers to complete the effect that Greg mentioned.
And Voila.
Jean-Louis Rheault
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