Making Mazes - 5 years later - a comparison - Part 5

Welcome back to my series where I look at my making over time. Hopefully they have improved. For an explanation of the series you can check out part 1, but the tldr is I used to make daily mazes and now make weekly mazes allowing me to spend more time on each maze.

Here are the first 4 parts in the series:

Making Mazes - 5 years later - a comparison - Part 1

Making Mazes - 5 years later - a comparison - Part 2

Making Mazes - 5 years later - a comparison - Part 3

Making Mazes - 5 years later - a comparison - Part 4

Let’s compare 5 more mazes and see how much better the newest mazes are 5 years later.

Part 5 - Even More Animal Mazes

Kitten Maze

The initial maze is from July 2019. The new maze is from 2025 and is comic book style with free drawn pathways. The 2019 maze is embarrassing for me to look at and was removed from the website for good reason (it used to be in the Animal Maze section). 2025 is a great improvement. Both are of orange kittens.

Unicorn Maze

The initial unicorn maze was made in April 2019 and the illustration was made for kids. The 2025 is comic book style and a much better !

Flamingo Maze

June 2019 was the first flamingo maze. Honestly, compare to many of my mazes from then it isn’t so bad considering. And yes, it was actually a lawn flamingo. The flamingo from 2025 stands with confidence.

Sloth Maze

In October 2019 I made the original Sloth Maze which for kids. I really liked that maze at the time. Our sloth shows a bit of personality. But, 2025 is once again a better illustration !

Mushroom Maze

Hey, I thought this was all animals ? Here we have May 2020 vs 2025. The initial maze was constructed using a grid method and it is easy. My 2025 Mushroom maze is more “animated” and targets more of a Grateful Dead crowd.

See you again down the road when I remake (and hopefully improve) more mazes ! Happy Mazing !

If you want to see all case studies this post pulls them together:

A Collection of Maze Design Case Studies to improve your Mazes

Attack of the Gryphon (2007) Movie Review

Attack of the Gryphon (2007) (IMDB)

Attack of the Gryphon movie poster

In a world….you know how it is popular for trailers to start with that in the deep male voice. Imagine this movie review being read in that voice, it will be more enjoyable. In an ancient fantasy kingdom plagued by a civil war a gryphon is unleashed. A gryphon is part lion and part eagle so you don’t want it on your bad side. Unfortunately this particular one is computer generated from 2007 and it does not look good. So a barely ok movie becomes bad because the terrible animation is so distracting. If the special effects were re-done the movie would improve to almost watchable. While this was not a made for tv movie it feels like one that would be on a random small channel late at night. Possibly with people sitting in a movie theater talking about it while it plays.

What is a good way to escape a gryphon who is attacking ? Enter an underground labyrinth, of course. It works, but this movie does not.

I give it a 4/10.

Maze Comic Book Cover #76 - SHROOM

Issue #76 in my comic book cover series is called SHROOM and features the maze of a Mushroom. The background was made using starryai. So this is an evil mushroom I think ( probably teams up with the Chili pepper from last week for hijinks).

My comic book cover mazes can be found in 2 places:

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 1 (Issues #1-53)

Comic Book Cover Mazes - Year 2

Mushroom Maze Comic Book

To receive a book of my first year of comic book book mazes (Volume 1 with mazes #1-53) you can sign up for my book alerts - any time I launch a free maze book, or paid book (on Amazon), I will send you a note about the new book launch.

Maze of the Week 91 Redux - Monte Alban (MOTW#180)

This redux is the quickest and most minor of all of them. I considered just posting it on the site and skipping this updated blog post. But, this process means showing when things work, when they don’t, and when they are this. Here is the original post for reference:

Maze of the Week #91 - Monte Alban Maze

Here are the enhancements I made to improve the maze:

1. Added Texture. I gave the ground and hills in the background texture. This also changed the color. Both are more accurate.

And…..that’s it.

Let’s check out the before and after:

I think both mazes work, but of course I prefer the new one best ! All the mazes from now on will be new versions of of basic mazes, or completely new mazes !

Some data: The new file is 778MB from 421MB.

I will be replacing the homepage with the new maze going forward. You can find the maze download there !

If you like this type of content check out all of my case studies:

A Collection of Maze Design Case Studies to Improve your Mazes

What I've Learned Making Mazes

Happy maze-ing !