Curio: Andrew DeGraff's Movie Maps

Alexa here with your fix of movie art. Philadelphia illustrator Andrew DeGraff has a way with cartography. He harnesses this skill to create unbelievably detailed movie maps.  He draws each location of a film in relation to all the others, and then traces the path of the protagonists, effectively capturing the action of each film from a bird's-eye view. Every map, like one below based on North by Northwest, is done my hand in pencil and guache, and takes hundreds of hours to complete. 

More favorites after the jump including Lord of the Rings and The Shining...

"North by Northwest Passage" based on North by Northwest

"Paths of the Torrances" based on The Shining

"Paths of Khan" based on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

"Paths of Raiders" based on Raiders of the Lost Ark

"Path of Empire" based on The Empire Strikes Back

"Paths of the Ring"

"Path of the Ring" (detail) "The Path of Shaun" based on Shaun of the Dead

"In Pursuit of Willie" based on The Goonies

"Paths of the Future" based on Back to the Future

He has completed the original Indiana Jones trilogy, the original Star Wars trilogy, and many, many more.  Here are some of my favorites; you can see more on his website, and prints of many are still available through Gallery1988.