Making a Lord of the Rings Monopoly Game - Step 1

Making a Lord of the Rings Monopoly Game - Step 1, originally uploaded by seian.

Since I thought some of you might like this - I'd like to say, I'm making another one! This time for a friend. And it's got to be done in time for christmas. So over the next week or so I'm going to be uploading pictures of the process. I'll update this as I get more pictures and link them together.

To see the original board, click here for picture one, two and three.

It's a big project, with a heck of a lot of handwork. If I were allowed to make this for people, I'd have to charge $350. I've inquired about the licensing situation on it - no word yet. I'm not holding my breath at this time, as Hasbro already has the movie version rights. Oh well - at least I can give them away!


Step one is hauling out all my old files of the board art, and getting out my yellow calligraphy paper to print on. All the art is in Adobe Illustrator now. I made them between Illustrator and Photoshop. What you may not expect is that even the images I made in Illustrator, I converted to pixels instead of vectors. The reason being I found the printed vectors were just too crisp and clean. The "dirty" edges of a JPEG gives the printing a more settled and fitting texture.

I'll be using a laser printer for this. Very important as its output is essentially waterproof and will hold up to my gluing, painting and sealing.