The Making of the Dreamland Chronicles Chapter One!!!
Hey all!
Today marks a new era in “making of” books!
Yes. I’ve completely turned the publishing world UPSIDE DOWN!!!
MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Heh.
Ok…so maybe it’s not THAT big…but I’m pretty excited about it.
🙂
I have been working on a series of “Making of” books where you can interact with the books.
Mostly adding video content.
I’d been wanting to do tutorials where I video capture the screen while I make a page of Dreamland.
This first book has that…and more.
Rather than just a video. It has pages of artwork, skteches, turnarounds, and such.
But the funnest part was just narrating the videos and showing you a bit of what goes into the making of Dreamland.
Mind you…this is just an introduction. I have MUCH more planned. Getting into the details of facial expressions, lighting, textures, and much more.
If you’ve always wanted to see what goes into this. Please download this and let me know your thoughts.
I’m already starting the next one.
And for those of you who can’t download from Wowio yet…
Here’s sneak peeks of some pages.
Some of the character models….
A clip from one of the videos (warning…about 6 megs)
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Thanks again
Scott
Sounds like great fun, Scott. In my case I still can’t get it, though, so thanks for including the samples. Very neat!
This should be really cool! Downloading now, I’ll probably rant about how neat it is later too. 😀
Comic comment: Alex, you better learn how to fly NOW! Or otherwise you’ll have a very unhealthy landing…
Wowio comment: Wowio, you better make this books available for Europeans NOW! I want to read those “The Dreamland Chronicles – Making of” issues (not to mention download the rest of the Dreamland books and some other things… 🙁 ). *rant*
Scott – Love the action in today’s installment. Nastajia’s expression is great. She obviously had something in mind when she started this; now what?
Can’t wait to see what happens next. Given that Nick has released Alexander, that definitely looks like a cue for Kiwi to step up.
Downloaded the “Making Of” book – Nice! It looks like way too much fun. I notice that Alexander’s armor in the sample sequences is lacking the crest on the breastplate. Is that a detail that gets added in later in the process? Just wondering.
Also, to repeat, the Felicity and Alexander sculpts look really good. If the production versions are as good as the first two (Nastajia and Kiwi), well maybe you should start thinking about putting up an advance orders option in the store.
Thank you guys!
Tolin…I still need to “pimp” that music!
Sorry for being so slow about it.
Xaxnar…thanks.
The crest is part of the texture. So it doesn’t really show up until the render. To speed things up in the viewport…you don’t see a lot of textures until things go through the render process.
It is there. Just hidden to speed up the viewport.
I wonder…
First, how long will it take to scrape the gargoyles off the hull?
Second…what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen Kiwi?
*sigh* I wish this was available for anyone not currently in the US… I so want to look at the animated versions. Do you offer these from anywhere else paid-for?
Thanks for let us know some things about creating such a good story. Your voice sounds good in the video. I hate to hear my own voice, it doesn’t sounds like mine. Worse than that, it isn’t good as I wanted to.
About WOWIO… If only I could download the books… :'(
“Please be careful when unloading explosive barrels from overhead bins, as items may have shifted in transit…”
UBER sweet!! I absolutely love the “Making Of” Chapter!! So awesome– it makes me want to learn how to use that program, simply because it looks like so much fun.
I can’t wait for the next one! 😀
Spider-knight!
Ooo, i took me almost 1 minute 19 seconds to download the 6 meg file… God, what a drag! 😉
Oooo… nice! MORE! MORE!
I just read the “Making Of” book, if you can call it reading. It is more like watching a tutorial. It was awesome, great, cool, and interesting all at once.
And yes, that does look like it would be a TON of fun Scott.
Sigh. At moments like this I think it’s a pity I am not an American.
Thanks for the examples. THey will likely be all I be able to see of it for quite some time.
Max gave me nightmares >_<
Haha. I woke up down today. You’ve chreeed me up!
It’s good to get a fresh way of looking at it.
I’ve known of Garfish for a long time but haven’t ever been there. I’ll have to change this! I would love to go there on a day like they day you went where you can sit outside and then wander around the foreshore taking in the view xx