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Hi all!
Sorry for the delay.
Funny story. When I get new workstations (as you guys so kindly helped make happen), I tend to say “WOO HOO! Now I can flip some more ‘render switches’ and make it look better!”
Most of the times, I have no idea WHAT the buttons and switches do. Just that when I turn them up… the images look nicer.
Yeah. I’m a real techie…huh?
But with the improvements come bigger render times.
No problem for my new workstations…right?
Right!
Well… yesterday, with things going so smoothly with this new scene, I thought “Maybe I can turn some of these nobs and make it look better!”
30 hours later…sigh… the render finished.
And no. I can’t tell the difference between this and the 4 hour render.
So…consider this a FAILED experiment.
🙂
In other news…
I just saw (thanks to the project wonderful ad on the right) that my buddies at No Need For Bushido are running a Kickstarter Campaign!
Aside from the horror of finding out 3 days AFTER it started (shakes fist at Alex and Joe) I’m delighted to see them “going pro” as they put it.
It’s a wonderful story with beautiful art.
Please check it out!
Where’s the DHD? 😛
Oooo…I’m getting all tingly excited about where this is going!! 😀
You know, I started reading No Need For Bushido a long time ago, but I didn’t get very far because they (at the time…don’t know if they still do) hid their archives and only made older sections of story available if you purchased the “book.” At the time, I wasn’t invested in the story well enough to do that, so I gave up on it. However, if you give the story a thumbs-up, I may have to look into getting it. 🙂
HAHA!! WIN!! 😀
Everyone remember to VOTE! We’re hanging on to 3rd place by a little less than 400 votes, and there’s plenty of time left this month for 4th place to overtake us!!
I was there with ya! Should we be worried about a a snake in Scott’s head?
Wait. Is the portal still operational with its Earth end destroyed? Uh oh.
Well, the TWC update.
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#3: 12,974 <= still us, but, as Julie's mentioned,
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Vote, fair readers of the Dreamland Chronicles!
Ha. There’s just no way around the Stargate references when dealing with Egyptians and portals to other planets…is there?
🙂
Well, I haven’t seen any evidence of sarcophagus use. I think we’re safe.
Nope. I’ve had plenty of references in my own books ruined by movies/TV shows, too. *shakes fist at Hollywood*
The way those statues stand vigilantly over the portal in the first panel…almost as if they could come alive to defend it, if needed?
Basically? Nah, not really. But you know, I for one don’t find it a necessarily bad thing. But, I’m big on little homages
A portal to our world? Quick, Alex, cling tenaciously to your crown! You’re king and no one else, darnit!
I’ve got a bad feeling about this. 😉
Throw a tissue box through it! 😀
As a suggestion from a fan to the author, I expect this to be taken with a huge grain of salt – perhaps even an entire salt mine. 🙂
But as a fan of Stargate, both the movie and the tv series, I say go with it. Have Alex make a direct reference to Stargate as a joke and then have to explain it, or dodge explaining it. It seems like the sort of thing he’d do, hehe.
I know I sure as heck would:
me: “Cool portal! Have Dr. Jackson and Teal’c shown up yet?”
everyone else: o.O?
me: *mad fanboy cackles*
😀
totally! i was going to say there is NO way scott isn’t a stargate fan after this, but y’all beat me to it! and i love the idea of alex throwing out a thinly veiled reference to the goa’uld in the nightmare realm!
Yup, Never Ending Story style!
Hmm, their eyes even look like their glowing… O_o
@Scott: I’m sure every designer/artist has done the same thing in Photoshop or similar software at some point, spend hours experimenting with effects/switches only to find what you started off with was okay after all.
“You don’t know if you don’t try” I say. 😉
So that’s the last remaining portal to our world…Had Nicodemus learned about it,it’ll be bad news for OUR world,eh?
Hardly a failed experiment… you discovered that you don’t want to use that particular switch and by returning to the previous setting you now save 26 hours a day! Ehh, wait, what? 🙂
So…..They do in fact have a portal to Earth. And this is known to the Nightmare Realm. …. This could be bad.
STARGATE
“There’s just no way around the Stargate references when dealing with Egyptians and portals to other planets…is there?”
Not when said portal is a large, vertical ring made of stone, no. : )
As far as I know they never made their archives hidden. Their first printed book only came out 2 months ago!
I think Scott mentioned he’s a fan of The Never Ending Story, as am I. I love this series so much!
One of my favourite quotes from the Episode 200 would fit in nicely:
Puppet General Hammond: Sergeant, make it spin!
Puppet Sergeant Harriman: Spin? Sir… it doesn’t spin.
Puppet General Hammond: What? It has to spin, it’s round. Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I am the General, and I want it to spin! Now!
Replace ass follows:
Puppet General Hammond -> Alex
Puppet Sergeant Harriman -> Pharao
I am the General -> I am the King of Dreamland (Ok, he actually is not but who cares)