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Hi all!
SOOOOO sorry for the delay. Apparently, this new scene (almost EVERY scene from the Flashbacks are new) I forgot to exclude the translucent wings from the bounced light.
Needless to say…after almost 24 hours…it hadn’t finished the renders. And that’s on these NEW machines.
Once I figured this out (about an hour ago) it rendered in about 30 minutes.
Ugh.
So many times it’s trial and error.
Anyways. Thanks for your patience.
Hopefully, I’ll have tomorrow’s page up by about noon.
Scott
“They” as in the guards escorting the king and queen? It’s kind of confusing who “they” are in the first panel.
“They” referring to the chambers. Chambers is plural.
*shifting in seat impatiently. What tragedy? Loss of portal, something else, or all of the above. As long as this is not a weekend cliffhanger I’ll be okay for a day (or two).
#gettingantsy
Gotta love technology!
Will the ruler consider himself responsible for what has happened???
I would imagine the loss of the Portal. After all, they’d been zealously guarding it for 3000 years, and then SNAP, gone like that. That would be tragedy in itself, compounded by the knowledge that with the Portal, the Nightmare Realm would have a clear path to invading Earth.
I hope – I really hope – the Pharaoh doesn’t take it out on Oberon and Titania. He didn’t seem guilt plagued or remorseful before when he was talking to Nastajia, but he might just be poker faced…
Scott,
In re: the render times and forgetting things and failed experiments…
I’m sure every 3D artist…heck, every artist, PERIOD, will have what they think is more than their share of similar tales of woe.
There have been SO many times when I’ve sat (or more likely, slept, or went to watch TV or read) through a 3+ hour render, only to find that I’d missed something, and PLENTY of failed experiements with tweaking render settings…but sometimes a “mistake” turns into a happy accident, with fabulously useful, albeit unintended results.
And if nothing else, keep in mind that wonderful song from “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang:”
Every bursted bubble has a glory!
Each abysmal failure makes a point!
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
So every time you stumble never grumble.
Next time you’ll bumble even less!
For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GND10sWq0n0)
(And my scenes are almost always MUCH less complex than what you’re giving us in even your simplest panels….)
The point I’m eventually going to get to is:
Don’t fret so much about occasionally being a few hours (or even a day or so) late in posting. You’re doing incredible work, telling a wonderful story, and doing it more faithfully and diligently than most other comic artists out there.
So, if you sometimes need a little longer to finish a particular page, or need some family time, or whatever, we’re cool!
Hey, I just noticed you hit 2000 likes on the Dreamland Chronicles facebook page. Congratulations.
Like!
For some reason, the King and Queen of Seraphopolis remind me of Obama and Michelle!
I don’t know if you were aware of this, but the word for “art” in Chinese (I don’t know which dialect) literally translates as “happy accident”.
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Just off-panel is a slip-n-slide and a kiddie pool of cherry jell-o. The king and queen of seraphopolis had “certain activities” planned that would made their chambers less than welcoming to elven royalty (who are prudes).
Scott, no problems. I know I don’t mind you ‘learning on the job.” We get the benefits!
So…can we suspect that Nastajia’s parents travelled to our world in search for the stolen Portal or for the other end of the stolen portal?
Three more votes from me today…and I may stop by Starbucks while running errands this morning…. 😉
Did you know that the Chinese phrase for Coca-Cola (like with you, I know not which dialect) literally translates as “happiness in the mouth”?
Nah, it couldn’t be… THEIR economy seems to be intact 😛
If one more person references American politics, I’m deploying my star destroyers.
LIKE! *hates politics*
But they wouldn’t be able to get to our world. A) The Seraphopolis portal was stolen. B) The portal doesn’t work if there isn’t a matching portal in our world for it to connect to.
Also, mobile phones usually get a random IP from the provider’s pool each time they connect… 😉
Uh. That’s been bugging me for a while already. Why guard or steal a half-portal?
Because that’s one half less of a portal system to build perhaps? Maybe Abaddon needed it as an ‘anchor’ on his side before building the Earth end, and he lacked the Guardians’ technomagic to construct it from scratch…
In most SF stories you only need a second portal to get BACK. If you’re only going one-way a single portal is enough.
Hm. There’s still something funky in the grammar of that first panel…did we lose the “they” everyone was talking about at first?
Methinks reverse engineering might play a part in it too. They’d need that to build a wakeworld portal. If just rebuilding it were that easy, it’d been done centuries ago.
The wraiths are already shown to be able to appear in wakeworld regardless of the portal (xref: Arthurs downfall), and even if that isn’t a corporeal form, they could recruit someone to build the earth side of the portal under their direction.
Scott has already established that the system won’t work without two portals.
I think so. I can understand it now, but it’s not easy. The second sentence is really just a fragment. It should probably be preceded by a dash or an ellipsis, not a period. It just describes the chambers as being unwelcoming.
Well I knew a few guys who’d love to see this whole world destroyed, but turning it into [more of a] nightmare? Them folks in Europe tried this quite a few times, of course, but hey, even they’ve figured out that enough is enough. And I seriously doubt that the Dark Lord can invent something more nightmarish than, say, witch hunting. He’d face some very serious competition here.
I’d be really disappointed if it all boils down to the usual ‘Christians are Knights in Shining Armour, all the rest, especially Scientists, are Devils in Disguise doing Evil Things for the sake of it’ Hollywood routine, too. And who but a Typical Hollywood Scientist would willingly help the Nightmare Realm to conquer Earth?
No, I don’t believe Scott would stoop this low. There’s got to be some absolutely different kind of a rabbit hidden in his hat.
That used to catch even us non-artists. Remember there used to be two types of spell check, both interminably slow?
One checked the whole document before letting you correct the words it found in error. The other took you to each word as it was found.
How many times did we spell check, and then leave to do something else–only to return and find it had gotten about five words in, to flag the first error for your consideration? And you still had 10,452 words to go. . . .
Yes. Some of us come here to escape reality.
Next time it happens, can I sic my Elvish Wizard on them?
Sure, but leave some survivors. I haven’t fed the shaggoths yet this week. 🙂
Could I make a suggestion?
I do not read the comic every day, but wait a little and then read it chunks at a time. It would be helpful if the previous/next buttons appeared at the top as well as the bottom to avoid seeing the action in a part of the story I haven’t read yet.
I guess that would be helpful. You could also use RSS Feed. RSS notifies you of updates and marks the pages you haven’t read as “new”, allowing you to choose the right page to start from. Really handy! 🙂
Something about Titania’s face is really offputting. It’s her eyes and facial expression, but I can’t really explain why it’s off, aside from saying it looks like her face is… dead? Perhaps motionless or something. It’s hard to explain :\
I would recommend clicking on the Archive button and then navigating to the page you want without seeing the other pages.
Well…the story might show us that some turning points of our history (i.e. world wars) was a plot of Lord Abadon to conquer Earth and turn it in a “Nighmare Realm” of the wake world with the help of his minions here (i.e Adolf Hitler) and that he failed because of the intervention of the Guardians…