
My tribute to Pratchett’s wonderful realm of Discworld
I got completely absorbed by fascinating book series Discworld. Terry Pratchett wrote over 40 books placed in this wicked realm, and every one of them is a satire for certain aspects of life. It is full of colorful metaphors, and sometimes infantile jokes. I completely fell in love with it, so I’ve decided to recreate the presented world. Here I explain my proccess.
“The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world.”
– The Light Fantastic (1986), Terry Pratchett

The beginning
I’ve started this project from collecting references of sea turtles- The Great A’Tuin was first to model. Great help were also illustrations of Discworld itself. I wanted to check what are acceptable proportions between elements of the scene. Map attached to books featuring top view of the world was also helpful for creating detailed terrain of Disc itself. The greatest reference of all, was content of books, of course. Lots of them starts from description of presented realm. After reading few of them, one can have solid amount of information about Discworld.