Saturday 15 February 2014

Some stunning views of Middle-earth

The fan community for Outerra - a graphics engine capable of rendering high-quality terrain images from relatively sparse data - has recreated Tolkien's Middle-earth using the software. This has resulted in some stunning and impressive views, especially considering this is only an alpha version.


You can see more pictures here and here, and a discussion on the Outerra forum here. The dedicated Middle-earth project website can be found here. Plus there's also a tech demo video:




This could be the next big thing for fantasy cartography. Westeros or Faerun next?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is Middle Earth located on a round planet though? I thought the Silmarillion was unclear on the subject...

Adam Whitehead said...

Arda is flat until the Downfall of Numenor, at which point it becomes a globed planet and Valinor is removed from the mortal realm. THE SILMARILLION is a bit vague on it, but UNFINISHED TALES makes it clear.

Ghost said...

These guys either has nothing to be or this is a great promo of their skills. Based on this, film studios should give them so serious work.

Anonymous said...

Randland.