Lake District, one of the most acclaimed parks in the United Kingdom
The UK national parks celebrate their 70th anniversary and the OnWard blog decided to honor them with the creation of some entertaining GIFs to highlight your landscapes more idyllic and enhance the environment where they are immersed.
Four years after the end of the Second World War, the United Kingdom decided to get serious about protecting its nature and that led it to establish a regulatory framework for preserve the state of the 50 national parks residing on British soil.
The law focuses on conservation and maintenance or creation of public footpaths , all with the purpose of taking care of the natural beauty of its most precious historical monuments or landscapes.
Through the outline of these 3D posters , inspired by those that emerged years ago to promote American parks, its creators have highlighted the various forms that the environment can take and, especially, the infinite and incomparable variety of scenarios that can be found in what we could consider a relatively small area.
The Broads National Park, Norfolk and Suffolk
Environments characterized by the savagery of nature, nature that decides to present itself in its purest state, from the The Broads National Park to the South Downs in Sussex , in the extreme south of England.
Among the highlights is the famous Lake District , one of the most visited. Sparkling lakes, green hills , a 21 meter high waterfall and even literary connections with Beatrix Potter and William Wordsworth. Although not everything is about literature, since that is where one of the oldest stones in the UK , from about 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period.
But the Lake District is not the only one listed as a nature treasure, ** The Broads National Park has navigable canals dating back to the 12th century ** as well as the Burgh Castle fort, built by the Romans in the 3rd century and which still stands.
In the GIFs have illustrated the only independent lighthouse in the country , the one that was closed in 1980 and recovered again thanks to its popularity. At his side remains one smaller , which reveals to have been affected by extreme weather conditions.
In North York Moors can come across the ruins of an influential 12th-century monastery in Snowdonia with nine mountain ranges, including the highest in Wales and in Northumberland with Hadrian's Wall, 73 miles long completed in AD 128.
Lake District National Park, Cumbria
If you are interested in the process of creating these new GIFs , we can satisfy your curiosity by telling you that they were made with the magicvoxel software -a kind of lego on the computer-, where thousands of cubes were colored to create the images.
First they were created earthly elements, the sea, the beach and the land , to later incorporate details such as buildings, trees and textures. Each animation suggests 4 to 6 layers, once finished they play one after another and the result is converted to GIF using Adobe photoshop.
Among the most curious finds is the weakness that King Arthur had for these parks , appearing in stories about Snowdonia, Loch Lemond and the Lake District. They have also discovered the Queen Victoria's Favorite: Cairngorms , and have even illustrated the castle trossachs for his recent appearance at Downton Abbey.
The UK's 50 national parks offer dreamy natural scenery , landscapes that managed to be captured in these fun and modern GIFs.
Cairngorms National Park, Highlands