Opti Mapping & Animation

Etiennal Mapper/Opti Mapping is a mapper who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He discovered mapping and began watching it in December 2016. He started to work in his first draft series (Alternate Future of Eurasia) and created his first mapping account (Etiennal Mapper) on April 1st, 2017.

History
Etiennal Mapper discovered mapping in late December 2016 while searching videos describing how big would be Japan if the Axis won World War 2. The first mapping video he ever watched was Super LV's AFOW, which he loved. On April 1st, 2017, he began working on an AFOEurasia and made 60 slides of it, until he experienced technical issues with Windows Movie Maker and couldn't use it. While watching mapping videos, he found countryball mapping, which he thought was way better than text mapping.

Countryballs
Etiennal Mapper was always a countryball fan. He began making some after he joined Google+ and saw the work of other mappers. Sadly, he never really had talent in making them. He watched Japanese Mapping's tutorial, asked help and criticism from other users, but he still didn't improve. But, on August 4th 2017, something happened, he never knew what, but he managed to make decent countryballs. From then, his quality heavily improved and he considers himself as a good countryball drawer. Later, he began taking requests and made a collection out of it that you can see on his Google+ profile (https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/Y1EEEE) Although, he stopped putting his requests there since a long time... By scrolling down his G+ profile, you will be able to see many shared artworks or you can contact him on Discord to ask requests.