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Happy Monday, All!
I hope you had a great weekend.
Question:
Do the beasties in the foreground show up okay?
I wanted to have more of their bodies. But the models aren’t done yet.
🙁
Also…
I updated the vote incentive. New desktop image.
Scott
EDIT:
In the light of day. I wasn’t happy with the heads in the foreground. I painted in something I HOPE is a bit creepier and dramatic.
Here’s what the older version looked like.
I can see em fine- holy cow, I WAS RIGHT! WOOT! Um, really, It must say bad things about me how excited I am for this danger?
Also, first panal totally made my heart melt. Nicole and Dan’s relationship reminds me of my boyfriend, who is currently out of the country ( for another 22 months!) They are adorable together. 😀
anyway, let me just say: SQUEE!
We need to find that dang portal they use.
*looks for Goliath* oh right, THESE are bad Gargoyles =P
The cat was just a diversion. I knew it! I just KNEW it…
hm… I think the focus should be reversed for some reason, brought to the foreground… unless that’s the next image. then focus should go from background action to *surprise RAWR*
The models show up fine, though they remind me of someone going crazy with lighting on untextured ZBrush models. ^_^
And that first panel made me smile.
I just really hope Nicole doesn’t turn into Robin the Boy Hostage. I’m hoping she kicks the granite out of them and sweeps the broken bits under the porch mat.
They look very brown… (I almost want to see glowy eyes or something!) other than that i can see them fine. 🙂
I find it strange that the streetlights are crating a shadow on the car below.
The shadow looks like the lamp is made of 4 glass panels with support in the corners (the support is creating the shadows) but the lamp doesn’t look like that. It looks more like a round glass with no support …
You’ll be the first to know, m’lady. Yes, Scott, I see them, and they definitely look like they’re up to no good.
Now, to TWC.
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I can see them fine thanks!
I,too,can see them as well! So what are they up to? Is there a portal to our world that Alex and company isn’t aware of? Is Nicodemus still alive and plotting revenge somewhere???
Yeah, definitely apparent that they’re supposed to be something menacing. It’s actually kinda cool have just the monotone models like that. They still look evil, yet are clearly not supposed to be in this world.
This seems like a Friday cliffhanger kind of page. Ergo, it must actually be Friday. I can only assume that means my calendar here is wrong. This will be my excuse for not showing up to work for the next two days.
Maybe it’s just me, but I could not figure out what I was looking at in the last panel without reading the author’s notes. Even then it still looks like the back of the lower legs of someone wearing wrinkled camo pants standing on Nicole’s roof. Jsut sayin’.
What type of camo pants are you wearing then? I distinctly see a pair of round lower skull areas. I also see two ears on one, not to mention the jawline of the other. Also, where do you see legs? I see the tops of heads and some thing that looks like horns and then the outside of the window above their heads. Besides all of this, what pair of camo pants shrinks slightly at one point, then expands to at least double the width they were before?
Well, Scott did say that the models aren’t finished for these baddies. Maybe that’s why the focus wasn’t too clear on them? 🙂
I like the way you think! 🙂
I could see them well enough to be creeped out. 🙂 I actually might not have realized they were unfinished models if you hadn’t said anything…but now that you mention it, they do look unfinished.
Wraiths can apparently cross the dimensional barrier and invisibly spy on humans. They did that with Arthur, and then with Dan. If these are more Nightmare Realm creatures, they may have the same ability. And there’s not much doubt Nicodemus is around somewhere, but Nic was just a sub-Boss; Abaddon is the main Boss, and he’s still the ruler of the N.R…
Any idea where we can find the series? They rocked.
We’ve seen the wraiths manifest themselves on Earth before, but I think this is the first time we’ve seen regular Nightmare Realm monsters present. This of course opens a MASSIVE can of worms over what kinds of monsters the Nightmare Realm has sent to Earth in the past. (Cthulhu much?)
The red eyes are definitely a plus, though the top left one comes across as a car tail light just because of the angle of the street visible behind it. Having more of them is also good, too. Overall, I prefer the new one.
Pipe organ heavy on the bass playing an ascending minor scale; Dum da da dum da da dum.
Definitely prefer the painted beasties to the original models… the others seem sort of out of place.
I actually kind of like the old version better. If I hadn’t been looking for Nightmare beasts of some sort since the sword started to glow, I don’t know that I’d have noticed them. Also, it makes my eyes hurt somehow. Just my two pence.
I do like the way you’re building the tension in this section, though.
Thanks.
Maybe, once I get the actual models, I can redo this frame one more time.
🙂
It’s an important moment. Want to get it just right.
Definitely like the newer version better. Similar to Kingdom Hearts baddies, but with the same undefined forms as the ones from earlier in the story. Old ones look to much like Warcraft Demons, Hellboy, etc… that have defined features. I like the idea of nightmare realm characters with undefined features since children, with their own creativity and subconcious, end up fleshing out their own demons when dreaming, or not. Which only makes our ghosts, ghouls, and demons even more scary.
What bothers me more is the number of demons on the screen. Two is good. Though five is more dramatic and visual, it feels like overkill.
On another note. I dreamed about Dreamland last night. I actually pictured myself as having had created a costume to look like Paddington, and then one to look like Alexander, as if I was going to attend ComiCon in San Diego. This comic makes me feel like a kid again. 🙂 Thanks Scott.
Glowing eyes always do the trick.
I like what you painted very well, actually. Looks good and ominous and looming in a shadowy sort of way.
Loooove it! I actually did a little gasp and made this face —> D:
WTH kinda freaky monsters are those? The freak me out!
And this is for Poydras….
ALEX! GET YOUR BAD-ASSS SWORD-SWINGING SELF OVAH HERE! 😀
I saw the dark, smoky monsters first and I recognized them as monsters right away. I think they are much more frightening than the previous heads. They definitely gave me a “holy crap!” moment!
The beasties just don’t show up well enough. I like the look of this page as compared to the alternate… just wish the bad guys drew the eyes in more.
Yep, I can see them fine. This is much more effective than the previous version.
Also, I KNEW IT
The new version makes me think:
Zooooooooool!
I kind of hope you do redo it when the models are done. I actually couldn’t see the new monsters when I popped back in to check on the comments. I had to do a doubletake and a careful inspection of the last panel to see “Oh, there are dark things with red eyes now.” Maybe that’s just because I so clearly saw the beasties when they were just models…*shrugs* But dark on dark is hard to see…and their eyes are so small that the red didn’t immediately pop out as “OMG eyes of evil things!”
Hey Scott just curious if you had found someone to do your background or not… If not you may want to take a look at a online community called second life… there are people there who could make yor cities easily for you… just a idea….
As for the monsters lurking for Dan or are they really after Alex? or both?? I think you got the idea across rather well that Dan is in trouble that is why his sharp pointy thing glows… I have to ask did you steal that idea from the Hobbit?? just curious lol and I doubt very seriously if JRR Tolkien will haunt you for it… But you never know…
okay, I really like the second take on the last panel. MOLTO bene!
Well obviously the bad guys are using the portal already. Maybe the dragon guy
went through and is now in the “waking world” and is in hiding, thats just my guess.
(Sorry Scott if I’m right again.)
Ohhh I love the updated beasties much more! Also…. yikes!
I’m thinking someone want’s to destroy the Dreamland monarchy forever. Pretty high stakes!
Comparing the old version with the posted version, I like the posted version better… Made me think, “Oooo, new baddies! Coool!” ^.^
I can see them fine and think they’re suitably vicious looking.
Yes, new beasties are very much more scary, love it.
Oh yes! A definite improvement!
Just suppose that Nivine(is that the correct spelling?)is also a servant of Nicodemus and thus the reason she wants Alex to leave Dreamland forever!!!!!!
It’s definitely an improvement in the mood, but honestly they’re still really hard to see. I didn’t notice them at all until I read today’s message from you, Scott.
I’m thinking that having the monsters hard to see is a benefit, since it will give Scott some flexibility for when the models are actually completed; no issues with mismatched monsters from one page to the next.
the dark shadowed creatures have a creepier look for sure.
May I just state an observation, the roof in the last panel seems to have lost it’s surface details. Maybe intended this way? hehe. just a heads up 🙂
Keep up the great work , still my fav’ comic online!
Definitely thought I was crazy for a moment… Good thing I confirmed my suspicion by reading the post about the revision.
I definitely like the revision much better. 🙂
Yup, i think black with the glowey eyes are definately more menacing. Very terror dog-esque 🙂
I agree, the remade page is much better. The creatures are using some kind of illusion so that you don’t notice them right away, yet you know they are there. Well done 🙂
Can’t wait to see what happens next in either the Dream or Real world reality.
Today’s page is still rendering as it’s the first time we’re on the streets of Seraphopolis.
Lot’s of bugs and rendering issues. Nothing I haven’t been through before.
But it is a bit time consuming.
I need to optimize things a bit. Large crowds and all.
Sorry for the delay.
Very creepy indeed, but now it implies more than just wraiths can pass through whatever portal they’ve got. Hoo boy. Watch out, Nicole!
I’m liking the new last panel though I’d probably have left off the one on the far left side. That’s just me nitpicking though.
Nah…because she wouldn’t want Daniel to rule if she served Nicodemus.
But Alex’s sword doesn’t stay a full sword in the waking world! 🙁
Well, then, he can have Dan’s!!
Nicole: And try to figure out why that sword is glowing to!
Dan: Well, it could be cause of the big scary monsters on the roof. Just a guess.
I knew it! It’s totally orcs. 😉
Um, I think I might have a theory, your Highness…