Page 1001…
Ok…that’s just weird typing in 1001 for a page number…
Ha.
Thank you all SO much for the warm wishes on page 1000 yesterday. It’s so much more special sharing it with all of you.
Thank you.
I had a great time reading all of your posts here and on Twitter and Facebook. You guys are too kind.
Here’s to another 1000 and of course it wouldn’t be right if I couldn’t spend it with you. So thank you for experiencing all of this with me.
I think I like the fireworks and balloons. I may keep them up for a week. Is that OK with you guys?
It feels like a Disney celebration.
🙂
Thank you all. And hope you’re enjoying the pages.
Scott
awesome stuff man!
P.S. guess I shoulda said first or something ^_^
Totally not necessary- really.
Keep them up for a while. You earned it.
Wow, love the fireworks in the background! 😀
Anyway, this is the first time I see that Nicole is actually feeling sad that she is going to miss something she used to think that did not exist….
Seeing her character develop like that is endearing 🙂
Who needs gradual character development when you can montage!
Looks great! Congratulations!
– Fr. Maurer
Keep them up for a month if you want, 1000 is no small accomplishment, especially with a comic of this quality. Looking forward to many more.
belated congratulations on 1000 pages! I love the fireworks, lots of fun and keep it up as long as you want!
😀
Tonight we celebrate 1001 Dreamlandian Nights!!!
I love the Fireworks, Scott. It’s so simple and yet… so Dreamland. (I can’t wait to check out the Balloons in the morning. I started late in book two but I’ve enjoyed the story since.
Now for a side question. Has there been any talks about a video game? Dreamland would look so cool played on a Wii. 🙂
Count my vote for leaving up the fireworks and balloons as long as you want to!
And speaking of voting: http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4274/default.aspx
Oh, and whoa! All the avatars just changed again a few minutes ago! Are they now randomizing nightly? If so, cool! 😎
One last thing for Scott before I sign off for tonight: I’m not sure what it is (poignancy, lighting, composition, or just the overall synergy of it all), but I really like today’s page. Definitely a flawless diamond that stands out, even among your usual precious gems!
Wow! I didn’t see the fireworks earlier–I like them! I agree, you earned a celebration, keep them up as long as you want to.
Congratulations on 1000! (I know, a little late…) We look forward to 1000 more! 😀
I think the fireworks are charming! And congratulations for making it to 1000 and beyond!
those fireworks rock! so many at once would be awesome to watch in real life. 😀
hmmm, seems to me as if nicole really put her heart into her friendship with felicity, once she accepted that dreamland is real. how about dan giving her a hug now? 😉
Clearly there should be more fireworks. Saaaay… 1 per comic? 😀
I agree, keep the fireworks for a month. It’s gorgeous!!
Too much fireworks kills the fireworks! There’s already quite a lot, I daresay. Brilliant idea by the way, beautifully rendered. Ol’ Nick clearly loves anything to do with pyrotech!
Big breakthrough for Nicole ( Ironically though, the association of her depressed look and the idea of an “imaginary friend” paradoxal effect… you get at the same time the impression of a real friend in another world and that of the depressing clown of your consciousness)… aaaargh, I’m starting to think too much, SHUT UP, BRAIN!
After Ice hockey, here comes Indiana Jones, ugh! Dan and Alex really ought to go and see some REAL movies!
I can’t see the fireworks… does it require animated images? Or JavaScript?
Anyway, I was thinking… seeing “Page 1001” reminds me of another story: “The 1001 Nights”. ‘gratz on what I will now call your Scheherezade anniversary… well done!
I like the fireworks, keep them up a month if you want. I’m pretty sure Disney would.
I thought I’d accidentally gone to Disney page, and then I realized it was just the banner for 1000. I like it! Keep it all week, it’s very cheery!
Aww… poor Nicole. I’m sure everything will work out… it’s not that anyone WANTS to stop correspondence, it’s just that the quest for the tablets is bigger than anyone individually.
Just sayin’…
I’m all for a week or longer of fireworks, etc. They’re nice, Scott 😀
NEEDS MORE FIREWORKS!!!
Nah, do what you like. But I’m really enjoying how this is going. 😀
I vote the fireworks stay for the month too. It is so pretty. You do great work and deserver fireworks and so much more. I will have to come back later and see the balloons. Heres to a 1000’s more.
Wooooow, they’re so beautiful…! I thought that the daytime celebration banner was pretty, but the nightscape? Man, it’s breathtaking! The colors! The patterns!
My browser’s cache seems to like the old image too much (either that or there is a proxy somewhere between me and the Internet). Press Shift+F5 to see the fireworks (or hold shift while clicking the refresh button). This will force your browser and/or proxy to retrieve the image from the server instead of from the cache.
Love the fireworks!!!!
Oooo!! Fireworks! So glad I got to catch them this am. I usually read the comic a little later in the morning (up early-ish for my therapy appt.) and miss the night scenes. And YESH! definitely keep them up as long as you want. They are beautiful.
What a sweet scene today. 😀
Yes. I’ll keep the fireworks up a bit longer.
Thank you guys.
And the balloons too.
🙂
A palindrome page!
Still congrats for the 1000 pages. I couldn’t post yesterday, so I will just post the comment today!
LOL, I marked out at the balloons! XD
ballooooooons!!!!!!!!!! they are great!
but where is the fireworks!
Yay Dreamland! Balloons are exciting, but you know what excites me more? Harrison Ford. Ooooooh Yeah! (At least, I’m like 90% sure that’s and Indiana Jones poster).
Argh! I don’t know why I didn’t think of this yesterday … 😳
You want more fireworks? Here ya go; make your own!
http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html
Definitely keep them up! I Love love love the fireworks!
I love the balloons. I missed the fireworks last night and plan to get over here this evening to see, but I’m sure they are just a nice as the balloons. I vote leaving them up as long as you like. Really, it took you so long to make it to 1000 pages, why in the world should we just limit a celebration with you and all of Dreamland to only one or two days?
I loved the fireworks. I could almost stay there all day and watch them explode! 😀
Keep up the good work, Scott, I love the comic.
I love the way the bed-table lamp casts these typical shadows in the render.
It feels cozy. Is it real ray-projection from the rendered lamp, or is it “cheated” i.e. drawn as a mask afterwards?
On Nicole?…I bet my hairy behind, Scott has something interesting planned for her and Felicity.. It starts to look like a great little “story within a story”..:thumbs up:
I didn’t get the balloons until today. Have to remember to see the fireworks soon, before they vanish…usually not on at night. 🙁
The fireworks come out in the night version of the banner.
or PS3 or XBOX360. i think scott if you did make it a video game it should be multi-platformed for all systems
scott, sense we are all in a feastive mood when is your dreamland chronicles movie going to come out if you don’t mind me asking?
Totally raytraced. And bounced light. THat’s why the renders take so long.
🙂
Hooray for the balloons! I finally got to see them!
Yeah, leave the balloons and fireworks up for the rest of the week. It really is a special occasion!
Yes please keep the fireworks and ballons up for a month, I love them!
*huggles Nicole* I’m glad she’s part of the team now, and I still hope Orion lets Felcity keep the bag so they can keep corresponding. If they can’t meet up again, then they could use those letters.
yay fireworks squeeeeee
Hooray for balloons and character development! I’ll keep and eye out for anything that could connect Nicole and Felicity again.
Fireworks and balloons are great! ^.^
I think it’s awesome how the shadows cast upwards on the wall remind me of a silhouette of Nicodemus in flight. ^.^ Good stuff!
Try montaging some ones life. If you can do it, and do it well enough that any one can look at the montage and know what it is and what it is for, then you have earned my respect. If you don’t, I will laugh in your face until I remember I can literally draw stick figures (and fail horribly at that even) and you at least tried to do some thing more complex.
I wonder… does any one have any complaints about just leaving the fire works and balloons up? Indefinetly? Other than that, its about time Dan and Alex let her have some real character development time (not that I am going to complain to much about it mind you, she is kind of a “supporting” character). Its nice to see some one else “grow up” for once. Especially since she apparently is now going to be a more integral part of the story as Dan’s girlfriend (to the, I don’t know, 3? Of you who gasp after reading this {if you do}, then go back about 30+ pages, Dan scores where Alex does not). Keep up the awesome work on the comic Scott, its helping keep this fan sane (for now… DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!).
Congrats on 1000 pages (well 1001 pages now)… I love the balloons!! they need to find a way for all of them to get to dreamland… i wonder if she could get there if she wore the sword like his cousin did 😉
Random, then it looks like you got an appropriate icon today…Nicole looking fierce.
totally RAYTRACED???With bounced light to boot??(don’t tell me You’ve been toying with refractions/scattering too. The light also bends very nice around Nicole’s arms and face..) Oooh man, You must have quite some time at hand, not to mention patience 😆
Maybe it is enough for Nicole to accept the reality of Dreamland&Felicity(and being ” in love” does help with that…face it, she’s smitten with David..) and embrace the child in herself again, to “step over” to the Dreamland dimension?
Alex needs the sword neclace, but I think that has more to do with his role as “saviour” than actually needing it to get to Dreamland. As I understand it,all you need to get to Dreamland, is “being a child again” in spirit..Same goes for Dan.
:shrug: just my 0,02$..
You know, I hate to say this, but after reading your comment and going back up to look at the shadows, … well, they’re not quite right.
I know, I know! I’m not criticizing Scott, because I can’t do what he does. But physics … I can do physics. So on that basis I offer this constructive criticism. Er, make that, analysis … 😉
If you take another look at the shadows, and trace the lines of light and shadow to find the light source, you find that the source is not under the lampshade where it should be, but rather about 6 to 8 inches below the lampshade, just in front of the body of the lamp, and slightly to our right of center (with the body of the lamp defined as center).
To put it more succinctly: the bottom edge of the lampshade shadow should be angled down, towards the beds, not up toward Indy and the hockey guy as it is now, if the light source is a bulb under the lampshade.
Now, having said that, it’s probably not very noticeable until you really focus on the shadows. And that is a pretty cool, somewhat dragon-shaped shadow as it is … perhaps there’s some subtle foreshadowing intended there?
(Sorry, couldn’t help myself … 😳 )
Loving the balloons and fireworks! Keep them up for as long as you want =]
Poor Nicole.. I hope Orion lets Alex keep the bag or something.
Thanks for keeping it on, Scott =) I missed it last night and I’m so glad to be able to see it now =) Nice work! =)
This comic has touched my heart so much. It’s put me through an amazing roller coaster of emotions. It’s been a truly endearing story that I have been reading off and on over the past few months. It’s so colourful and bright and makes me smile and makes me hope the story never ends. It’s a world hopes and fears where good and bad dreams come true. Thank you so much for your comic joy.
Congratulations on your 1000 pages. Keep up the fireworks, it looks great. Your right, it is kinda like disney which is also a place of dreams.
LOVE the firecrackers! Congrats on 1000 pages of awesome, Scott!
woohoo i loves da fireworks nice job they look almost exactly like the ones at disneyland! (i was thaere just on the 16th tehe!)
Thank you.
Thank you all…and good night.
🙂
HI SCOTT!!!
So it’s like really late, I’ve been drawing all afternoon and night and I’m +tired+. And ashamed, *aaaaaashamed* I tell you…
man, it was your B-day! You now are the proud Father of a 1000nd days baby!
Who else can claim that their baby can imagine into life dragons, elven swords, love and Dreamlands, huh?!
(rises cereal bowl) Here. To you, my fine fine friend. And may another thousand more come.
On another topic, I TOTALLY love the fireworks and the banner and *sigh* everything… the last two pages have been so intimate, so delicate… niiiice work. And I’m a sucker for the Indy poster.
My gift to you.
*Michaelangelo Buonarotti: “My work… the work of any artist surpasses it’s own creator in a very brief period of time. Time, which we devour endlessly, is the same fuel that makes our work live. And I want all my sculptures to be imbued with the power of life”.*
It’s been worth it Scott. It has been.
So, hi to the little ones (ooooh, now I’ve finished mah cereal, maybe I can go to sleep…:P) and the missus and everything you love.
Down from the border, we root for yout too.
Bye!
yeah your probably right.
Shees..I keep mixin’ names up.. David????? What was I thinking, I meant Dan naturally… :shame:
whose room is she in? *lost*
Waaah I’m a teddy~!!!! <3
oh not anymore =(
She’s in Alex’s & Dan’s dorm room. Check the wall posters! (And go re-read the first chapter if you don’t remember them … )
did u guys now that indeana jones is in there