{"id":1785166,"date":"2018-03-22T17:56:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785166"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:56:33","slug":"callum-ogdens-fantasy-map-of-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/callum-ogdens-fantasy-map-of-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Callum Ogden’s Fantasy Map of North America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Callum Ogden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last year Callum Ogden started making real-world maps in the style of fantasy maps; his most recent is this map of North America<\/a>, which is very much in the post-Lord of the Rings-<\/em>movies style of things.\u00a0In this Medium post<\/a> he talks about the process of making it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year Callum Ogden started making real-world maps in the style of fantasy maps; his most recent is this map of North America, which is very much in the post-Lord of the Rings-movies style of… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87,31],"class_list":["post-1785166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-map-design","tag-fantasy-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789658,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/11\/lord-of-maps-more-real-world-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785166,"position":0},"title":"Lord of Maps: More Real-World Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"22 November 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"Here\u2019s another map artist who draws maps of real-world places in the style of fantasy maps: Isaac of Lord of Maps has around 30 maps\u2014mostly of U.S. states, but also a few countries and one city\u2014available for sale as prints of various sizes. 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