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Okay…
First off. It looks like I can’t figure out the ‘double page splash” function on the site.
So if you’d like to see the full size version…click here.
This page has been on my mind for quite a while.
I’ve been doing sketches in sketchbooks for months trying to figure out how to show this.
Add another week of rendering assets and a weekend full of photoshopping…it’s been a big page to complete.
I hope you like.
This whole chapter will be like this. And with my limited assets (I don’t have armies built)…I’m going to do my best to see the final pages get as close as possible to my vision.
Since this is TWO pages…I’ll leave this up for today and Wednesday.
Thanks again!
Scott
Discussion (108) ¬
WHOA
…this is epic. That is all I have to say.
To WAR!!!
And, no. This castle is not a model.
It’s the War of the Ring…*shakes*… I mean the War of the Sword. Cool visual there dude. Cool visual.
You seem to have the double splash thing working fine; it shows up fine in my browser.
I would suggest a quick edit on the text (preperation –> preparation [I caught myself misspelling another way as I typed this!])
Chapter 16 looks like it is going to be awesome!
This is a gorgeous page. The mood and lighting are superb and adequately foreboding.
And two weeks is incredibly little time for an army of this magnitude. It kind of sets me on edge, because that could mean that some people aren’t well prepared or not meant to fight and that lives will be lost quickly… 🙁
Scott, i’m already in love with this chapter!
your such a great artist!
Is that… a dreaming child in front of Nastajia? Or just a really super close up of a fairy?
The page is spectacular, though. Well worth the wait.
Spelling correction: “Preparation” not “preperation” (the verb is prepare not prepere). Looks great though, can’t wait to see how this chapter plays out!
Wow …. magnificent splash page … incredible in details and in graphics …
I am speechless …
Astonishing work, Scott !
I think the correct spelling is “preppureyshun”… 😉
Awesome page, Scott! You set the bar high for this chapter!
WOOOT!
congratz Scott!
keep up teh great work
Nice job detailing wood grain on Nastajia’s bow. The clouds in the background are awesome as well. Keep this up, and you’re going to need a whole farm of computers to do the rendering.
That’s a fabulous page, Scott! And the cloud cover looks appropriate to the scene. Great work!
Must reinforce how simply awesome this page is… I’m curious to see how Kiwi’s clan will play a role in this war
I couldn’t figure out what that bright blue arc was for a while. It looks as if it’s coming off of the spear. OH! It’s the waterfall.
And what’s that bright bubble on the left hand side?
After 1 month of waiting, I am TOTALLY NOT disappointed. This is incredible.The lighting, the emotion, the *ness* (coolness, epicness, awesomeness, incredibleness, etc.)
Wow! That shot alone is poster worthy!!!
Um, didn’t the rock giants say they weren’t interested in going to war?
🙂
Thank you all!
Spelling fixed on Preparation. Thanks!
I really want this chapter to be epic. In the truest sense of the word.
I just hope I have enough talent, cpu power, and time to see that happen.
Thanks so much for being here for this.
You’ve got epic figured out pretty well this far. I’m certainly epicly nervous about how this will play out. 😛
Amazing page(s)!
Oh…and this just screams “WALLPAPER” to me… I likes it! 😀
What browser are YOU using? I’m using Firefox and the image shows up small 🙁
Scott, you have the talent for sure, that is never something that was in question. As for the CPU power and time… I am confident you will make it work. Awesome page man, awesome. I nominate this for the next Dreamland poster. 🙂
This is gonna be good!!1! I can tell! But one question: Is there like a magical spell on their clothes and armor that keeps it all from getting dirty, smelly, sweaty, or do they just have fifty of the same outfit?
I am liking the composition of the image. It comes full circle.
Follow the fairies, etc, to the castle, then the clouds/sun rays to the giants,
down to Nastajia. Very nice.
This is just adding to what I had seen already mentioned and agreed with.
Oh snap! That’s one really awesome, beautiful scene.
Sad that I cannot see the full size version – there is no link for click here in Chrome.
I love this. Pity the Nightmare wraiths heard Dan tell Nicole the plan.
Ok, nevermind, that was just my crazy….
All I can say is… Wallpaper!
(When you get back some available processor time!)
Great page and welcome back. Really looking forward to this chapter.
This is Dreamland; no one sweats in Dreamland!
And all dirt, dust and grime in Dreamland is firmly locked into a mysterious force known as PLOT. In other words, dirt and dust cannot stick to a character unless it follows a plotline to do so.
😉
The Storms of War!
I love this page! I think it may be my new favorite page, or at least in the top five. Beautiful!
I’m going to stop now, because I’ve run out of exclamation points and have to order more …
😉
And Arthur’s spirit, raging for revenge,
With Merlin by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, elves, dwarves, fairies, centaurs, and rock giants, groaning for burial.
(with apologies to Willy Shakespeare)
Looks good.
BTW, whatever happened to the music player. I really, really liked it.
Even if it can’t be replaced, “Dreamland Playlists” in the Extras would be really nice, for those of use who wanted to replicate it on iTunes or whatever.
wow! best page yet in the entire comic!
The link to make it bigger isn’t working for me. In fact, there doesn’t seem to be a link at all. 🙁
“It is the deep breath before the plunge…”
Wonderful page, Scott.
ummm…wallpaper? <:D
hmm, if I was an elf or a human, I think I would be behind the Rock Giants.
…just sayin
That’s exactly the quote I was thinking, RG. Very apropos.
Great page, Scott! I think this bodes well for our viewing pleasure. 🙂
It’s the thumbnail picture in the blog.
I could have never imagined a better page to welcome back new pages. I have faith in your CPU to handle the pages as you envisioned them.
it shows up small in Chrome too.
Epic page Scott… if the rest of the chapter is like this it’s gonna be awesome!! 🙂
Beautiful work, Scott! Epic!
I suspect most of the peoples knew war was coming, and were already well on the way to mobilization. Still, two weeks is pretty quick to pull it all together, especially if the troops want to eat…
looks awesome scott. could we by chance get this as a wall paper or a vote insentive??????? believe it or not nastajia’s outfit is nsfs (not safe for school) i work at an elementary school and one of the kids pulled it up after i had checked it out one day and the teacher said she was dressed inappropriately…go figure.
love this opening scene, great shot of the armies with the castle in the background.
this is simply breath taking, kudos to you my friend
I would advise you not to consult geese in matters of spelling. ^,^
For what it’s worth, I think you did a fantastic job on this page! It looks awesome!
So Stunning!!! A beautiful way to start the chapter.
To everyone, have fun storming the castle!!
It’s the link (small image) in the blog entry.
Really?
She has way more clothes than the Little Mermaid and Jasmine from Disney movies.
What part is inappropriate?
Thank you all.
🙂
Ever try and fire a bow with a 5 inch tall fairy sitting on your nose, waving her arms?
Well, all I can say is NEWWALLPAPERTIME!!
Wait . . . two weeks of prep for a whole war? Dude, i can’t pull together a decent omelet in two weeks.
Heh. I just read through the blog without stopping to look for typos. 🙂
This is the most glorious thing I have ever seen. Legit.
Judging from the closing of the previous chapter, I’m expecting defeat in this first attempt to overthrow Nick. But it will be fun to watch in the meantime. 🙂
P.S. It would be really neat if the background of this site gets set on fire when the battle begins… but then I wouldn’t want to distract Scott from the actual comic! 😉
Wallpaper’d! 😀
(Sorry, I had to say it, it’s just too beautiful!)
All I can say is: Ents.
In other news…
Scott, are you aware that ALL of your previous double-pages have automatically somehow been converted to full-size-upon-hover pages? Just look in the archive. Why don’t you just do what you did for them in the past?
>my input
I am awed by this pages epic Epicness. 0_0
I don’t know how!!!!
Ack.
I’ve emailed Phil…but no response.
I don’t know how it’s done.
OoooOOooOOOooOOoooo! Stunning artwork Scott!
Can’t wait to dig into the chapter!
(I’d guess, in the post about the ‘inappropriate’ clothing of Nastajia, it is her long open middrift. Some folks get their knickers in a twist over belly buttons. Now, if they said, “that’s crazy to go into battle wearing a bikini top with shoulder guards,” I’d agree. But this is Dreamland, and we have to hope that in this magic world, her open middle isn’t going to attract arrows, daggers, swords and spears.)
and how badly I wanna but will hold back. Unfortunately in order to be safe for school these days it would seem that she would have to be dressed like the cast of little house on the prairie (which would totally be out of character). Have to remember Little Mermaid and Jasmine we pre 2001 cartoons. As noted I will hold back from saying anything more but I believe I’ve said enough to explain it. 😉
In this EPIC picture Nastajia look like the Elf heroine in the “Neverwinter Nights” rpg.
so this is really epic. and i just caught myself for the hundredth time trying to click and drag this to my non existent favorites section forgetting that this is not DA x.x; habits are hard to kill but this is just screams epic x3
I think Nastajia eyes on this page could be improved, all white makes it harder to connect with her as biggest part of page.
FYI – the comic is not coming through on my dashboard widget. It was working fine until your break after the last chapter and I thought it would pick up again now that you are back to updating, but i still get a frowny face.
Thanks.
What’s a dashboard widget?
Naw, I suspect that they would be riding the arrows for fast infiltrate!
Both Ariel and Jasmine war battle attire that matched their kingdom’s army. Although Nas is in a league all of her own, I would at least thought she’d have a helmet or something. However, if I want to argue about dress attire I should probably look towards the Final Fantasy series (starting with VI through the current) and see that almost all of the main characters there never really wore much for battle attire.
So I say this is Lord of the Rings meets Disney meets Final Fantasy 😀
Btw, the White of Nas’s (or is Naj…eep! It’s already been too long >.< ) eyes are both slightly off. One eye is more white than the other, the other (her right) looks like it has some flesh tone in it.
Interesting. I made a comment about the wood grain of the bow and now its not here anymore.
Well, I have a Mac, and it has this thing called a dashboard that sort of overlays the desktop and I can choose widgets to display that are kind of like apps for phones etc. I have one that displays a weather forecast, an online dictionary and one of them is for comics. We choose from a list what comics we want to be able to scroll through on a daily basis. It is actually how we found Dreamland!
Me like, Scott, me like! Looking forward to the next few months as this chapter unfolds.
I just checked spam. It’s not there.
Maybe a glitch?
Oh. What’s the name of the program?
Maybe contact them?
This should be a wallpaper, minus the text of course!:)
beautiful page Scot!!!!!!!
the lighting is perfect, i cant help but feel that i am actually there with the way Natasha is looking back making sure everyone is following her and checking to make sure the others are alright
also this page reminds me of the ltor fight!!
and i agree this page screams!! back around for computers!
Wallpaper donations are up. Check the right side of the screen for the link.
Any amount will get you the wallpaper.
Any donation over $5 will give you a chance to win the original print of this page.
Thanks again for all the encouragement.
Tomorrow is page 3 of the chapter.
NICE! BTW, I thought I should invite you to the RP I’m in. It’s called “Muse Gate” and it’s set in a world called FanFyria. Judging from your story, I think you’ll like it a lot. Just click the link in my name.
Forgot to mention: You have to register to see the RP sections. It’s a pretty well thought out world.
Sorry Mario, your princess is in another castle!
In all seriousness though, great page! This is rather exciting.
Do I hear coconuts?
So pretty….. (especially for an 11 year old) and 86 COMMENTS??!!!!! (stagger) now 87 because of mine (feint)
not sure there Scott. She just said she was “scantily” dressed and it wasn’t appropriate. which to me is weird because this is not one of those stuck up/up tight teachers. just wanting to be PC i guess. if she actually read the strip maybe she wouldn’t have an issue. i didn’t want to say that i had pulled it up because i am a regular reader and it is not that bad.
I found it.
You posted it on the FUNDED!!!! post below this one.
🙂
Whooaa! That’s gorgeous! Great work! I can’t wait until the plot catches up to this. Yesssssss! *air fist*
Very well done page Scott! I like the atmosphere you’ve created with the colors and positions of all the characters. Looking forward to reading more of Chapter 16.
First let me say this is totally gorgeous!
Then I shall quote:
“After two weeks of preparation…
“…the armies of Dreamland advance upon Astoria…
“…armed for war.”
Well, good, ’cause if they were armed for peace they’d be the wrong armies.
(…A week earlier an army of hippies had marched on Astoria. And been slaughtered…)
You might want to consider changing that to “ready for war” or something.
Though perhaps it is just me that finds it redundant…
But, these aren’t “the armies of Dreamland” anyway. That sounds unitary and all-inclusive, which they can’t be. Not in a civil war.
You might want to consider something like “…The armies of Alex’s Dreamland allies advance towards Astoria…” (or most of them; I don’t notice any dwarves or mermen off-hand).
Because what about the OTHER armies of dreamland, that they’ll be fighting? Wraiths, almost certainly. Perhaps pirates (do pirates have armies, or would they be navies?), or pandamen, minotaurs, ogres, orcs, trolls & maybe ninjas for all we know. At any rate, Nic has gotta have some kind of an army of his own, or Alex’s allied armies wouldn’t be needed, and Nic’s army, no matter it’s personnel, also could be described as an ‘army of dreamland’…
As for the two weeks of preparation, I got no problem with that – this is Dreamland! 🙂
They were probably ready to go in 2 hours – the two weeks was to coordinate so they all arrived at Astoria at the same time…
I like ellipses too…
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P.S. Don’t change a word – if I’m the only person out of your thousands of readers who finds it questionable, then it ain’t. “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time,” and you can’t please ’em all neither. But I do believe the happy multitudes outnumber me by, oh, a considerable margin…
lol, lets chalk that one up to human error 🙂
And don’t forget the airship fight against the Nightmare creatures, right before the party met the Dwarves for the first time: fairies have some fairly potent magic to bring to the party.
😉
Just breathtakingly beautiful
The Landscape too ;p
I swear that this is Lord of the Rings…
The rock giants look like candy.
Scott, I checked through the comments and did not see one person mention this. It might be a little thing (*snicker*) but the second-to-last fairy appears nekkid from the waist down. It might just be the shading, but given that it’s a big page people will be staring at, it might be a concern.
Also, Nastajia’s left eye is too far left, making it look like she has a bad case of lazy eye.
Now, enough criticism. OMGWTFBBQ!!!1! This page is amazing!! Keep up the great work!
Wow. This is a very evocative scene. And Nastajia’s smart, not wearing heavier armor…after all, the less skin armor covers, the more protection it affords!
Fave page so far. Just epic.
This is pretty epic. Would make a great desktop background. Really cool looking.
For Dreamland!
Epic.
WOOT! Love the splash pages! This ones particularly awsome though.
Sexy Nastajia is sexy.
It is a rather impressive image, I concur.