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After I saw the first season of True Detective I decided to design a map for it's well known places. I really liked the hidden symbolism of the movies, so I started to do a little research about it. I really wanted to catch the mood of the series, and find something, maybe a hidden meaning, to get to the start lane.
In the story, the two detectives played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson find themselves tracking a murderous Satanic cult that is heavily influenced by voodoo. For more on True Detective's use of voodoo,
see this article.
In the story, the two detectives played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson find themselves tracking a murderous Satanic cult that is heavily influenced by voodoo. For more on True Detective's use of voodoo,
see this article.
Now that was something very useful, so I decided to make the illustration in this voodoo style combining with Joshua Walsh's excellent set design. The next step was to find True Detective's locations. It was a hard job, because there are many existing versions. My map is based on these maps: True Detective / by Nigel Evan Dennis and WikiTravel
The hardest part was to find the "High speed low drag" label which is the part of the Iron Crusaders coat. I spent about 3 hours with this task. After one week research and two days sketching I finally I redrew everything in Adobe Flash, then exported it to Illustrator. My first thought was that the illustration should be black and white, but a few days after I decided to use grey and yellow.
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