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A new day…
Thank you all for your support and encouragement.
With the news of Wowio coming back…and better than ever (see my post below) I think I’ll get more chances to give you guys some cool stuff.
And as always. Thank you for emailing me, posting here, and on the forum.
Knowing you’re all enjoying the story and sharing it with friends and family means the world to me.
Thanks again and have a wonderful weekend!
The next you hear from me (unless you’re following the Twitter on the bottom of the sidebar) will be from Los Angeles on our way to San Diego.
Hope to see you there.
Have a great time in San Diego!
All the best,
Cause (who won’t be there 🙁 )
Still digging the comic since I began reading (when there were only 5 comics posted) Didn’t catch you from Day 1 but I’m glad I was close. Keep up the good work!
Ah…our poor, poor dwarf king friend has such a one track mind–he’s so worried about traitors! X}
Hope you have a great time in San Diego! 😀
There is something I have wonderd. With 3D modeling, why don’t you use alpha maps on some parts to make things look more real? Like on the hair and such to give it a softer feel instead of looking plastic?
Nothing personal, everythiong else looks amazing. But the hair has just always bugged me as to why you never use an alpha map on it so that it.. well.. looks like hair and not some hard plastic object on their heads.
I wonder if he’s been burned by many traitors over the decades. Or centuries, or however long giant dwarves live.
Saeru…
Thank you.
This was a decision in the design. I don’t particularly like alpha maps and do not want the characters to look realistic.
Dreamland has always been intentionally stylized.
Modelling clumps of hair is just part of that style. Many movies, tv shows, video games (even WOW) use this style successfully.
Now whether I’m “successful” at it or not…well that’s another story….
🙂
But thank you for bringing it up and thanks for reading.
Have a great time in San Diego, Scott. One of these years I’ll make it down there. Say hello to the wombats in the zoo for me.
I’ve always liked the surreal look of the comic… with a few exceptions. One was the first time we saw the dwarves. I had to really think about the fact that they theoretically could move.
I still think the big dwarf is a steroid user, it seems to effected his imagination and thought process. Plus it makes him surly and that is quite a feat, in being more surly than your average dwarf.
As usual, a complete knock-out. Wish I knew how to model in Blender so I could help you!
I’ve never seen a web comic that has art to compare with what you do here. So maybe the story is a bit slower than what we see else where, but one day Dreamland will be complete, we will have the books and we’ll show our children that THIS is a story and that THIS is dedication to art.
Love your comic. I’m wondering where the dwarf chunk of the text is? The dwarf king probably hung a picture over it.
The art is always so great, and I’ve always liked the 3d effects. What software do you use, (if you don’t mind my asking)?
Oh no! You took my links off the link exchange! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
have fun. =D
I love this comic so much! It would be so cool if this was turned into a cartoon! <3
btw the comic is GREAT I love it. but maybe you can make everything more realistic when hes not in dreamland?
If their history tells the truth, how does it make them traitors to the Crown? Nicodemus maybe, but to history, to the true crown, to the future?
Man, that’s a big dwarf, and it’s getting bigger! Oh, I wish I was somewhere else. Magic toenail, please help me!
(I don’t think ANYbody is going to get that one.)
So THAT”s what’s in the royal jelly.
A good decision IMO.
Having the story move at a slower pace gives us more time to appreciate the elf princesses and catgirls.
I mean… artwork.
Well, the ladies are *literally* “works of art”. :-}
But… I suppose Alex is, too; literally, at least. I leave it up to the ladies in the audience to assess whether he is a figurative work of art as well.
It avoids the uncanny valley quite neatly.
It works.
That is why this is the only CG-rendered webcomic I read.
All the more adult, “realism” based ones just creep me out.