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Wow…what a day.
Let’s break it down.
I woke up to find out that…like almost every OTHER webcomic…one of my biggest paying advertising brokers left us. The company is called ADSDAQ. Apparently they decided that they don’t want to work with webcomics any more.
This is a big financial blow to us. So that kinda sucked.
Then I had several REALLY good meetings with my producer and agent. Things are going REALLY well in Hollywood for me. Nothing I can speak about. But looks like at least 4 new movies happening and a possible partner for my company.
I’ll keep you posted.
Then…I finally got my Birthday present. Yay.
WHen I finally got home…I realized I hadn’t done today’s page.
ACK!
So I’ve been working on it since the kids went to bed and actually got it done in time. I’m quite thrilled.
Anyways. It was an eventful day to say the least. Highs and lows.
I hope you enjoy this page and I hope I didn’t screw anything up in my haste.
If I did. Please let me know and I’ll fix it in the morning.
Thanks all!
Scott
Scott-
Sounds like you’re getting as cardiac workout just between the highs and the lows today!
Still, at least you’ve got it better than Paddington. He’s just realized all of his dance students literally have two left feet, er hooves. 😉
Not that everyone with four hooves is hopeless at dancing – check out this stallion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv-IydpCLm8&feature=related
Nothing wrong with today’s page that I can see.
Sorry about your advertisers bailing on you. The economy troubles are hitting just about everyone. Hang in there!
Sounds like great news with the movie industry. I hope one of those movie projects is Dreamland! If you can use most of the models used for the comic to create a CGI movie, you’ll have a good portion of the work already done!
Oh yeah… “FWAP” – that’s just classic 😀
LOL Paddington did a facepalm.
Yeah, Joe from NNFB recommended I look into ADSDAQ, but after I signed up I realized they weren’t going to approve webcomic sites xD
And ooh~ Does any of the Hollywood stuff involve a possible Dreamland Chronicles movie? 😛
Just returned from another quick trip to LA to find two comics waiting for me… what a bonus! 🙂 Glad to hear at least some things are going well, Scott!
Poor Paddington, but at least his students are good natured about it. Sorry to hear about ADSDAQ, but I hope Hollywood proves fruitful for you, and a Dreamland movie with orginal models is approved.
YEAH MOVIES!!! GRAB THE POPCORN!! and how hard did Paddington hit himself? hopefully not too hard. XD
Well, still love your web-comic and will be for a long-time.
The only thing that looked kind of funny was the last panel showing Alex and Pannington. Alex armour color seems to be a-little off. In another words I guess is that it looks like when a photo is pasted onto another photo and it doesn’t match in the finish product. It looks out of place.
I hope that was clear in what I was trying to say.
Well. Good luck to you and your family.
That is completely awesome! I just hope I can get my Alex and Felicity figures before The Man(tm) puts the commercial hammer down. 🙂
Congrats, Scott. I think we can all say that as we’ve followed the evolution of both Dreamland and your hard work, leaps of faith, and the selfless attempts to bury your mailman in packages. Dreamland really is a work of art and everyone who contributes to it deserves every bit of adulation, celebration, and several other words that end in -tion. It’s also really nice to know that buying some very nice toys, clicking on links, and being a fan could help spark much larger things.
And tell Adsdaq that they can go blow when some webcomic they ditched in ’08 goes Hollywood. The rest of us will just have to hit a few more banners to make up for it.
I figured that this webcomic could easily turn into a movie or even a television show.
It means that you shouldn’t be doing the comics day-to-day, but rather get them done ahead of time.
Good to hear about Tinsel town, sad to hear about the advertiser. I hope it doesn’t affect the webcomic world too badly. And belated congratulations on you birthday.
hi The one thing I seen that kinda bugged me is in the last panel, I know Pannington is talking, but it looks like the talk bubble is coming from the hoof of the cenatar. If there is a way to make it look more like it is from pannington that would be great. Not trying to be picking, but you did ask
kittin
I love Paddington’s smile! and the centaur legs hooked around the post. Too funny
I wonder how loud a rock giant doing a facepalm would be…
I’m betting it would sound similar to blasting a mine or a tunnel. 🙂
4 new movies?? Can… can we hope that one is Dreamland? =D
Well, at least your good news far outweighed the bad news! 🙂
Thank you all…
I will say that a Dreamland movie is one of them. But I can’t say anything more. Just that I have the most amazing producer and agent. And they are working very hard to make this happen.
I’ll let everyone know how things go.
Scott
Ha ha! Centaurs can’t dance… Too bad about ADSDAQ, but cool news about the dreamland movie.
Ooh! I can do voice acting! Can I be Nastajia pleaseeeee 😛 (would also settle for felicity.)
Regardless I’m so excited!
Be careful with Hollywood. They’re well known for making all the money, while the people who did the work get left behind with nothing.
Movies! That’s exciting, and I can’t wait to hear more about them. I hope ADSDAQ issue doesn’t prove to be too much of a problem in the long run.
Hopefully you will spared from the fallout of the ad broker withdrawal … and hopefully the money that Hollywood can throw around gets throw in a nice direction towards you … and as a result you can come out of everything better than ever!
Sorry about ADSDAQ, but HOOORAAAAY for Hollywood!
Gotta love Paddington…
I just want to say I love the frame where Paddington is laughing. His smile is great!
And a Dreamland movie would be awesome! I would definately be there opening night.
🙂 It is going to be a challenge, isn’t it?
I could see it working out well if they go double-time on the footwork. Instead of Left-Right-Left in a 1, 2, 3, they can go LR-LR-LR, 1&, 2&, 3&, with the fore and hind hooves of the same side moving at the same time. But! They also have the option of moving both fore and both hind hooves at the same time: fore-hind, fore-hind, fore-hind, same 1&, 2&, 3&.
You see this double-time stuff with the “dancing dogs”. My favorite clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqbVbPvlDoM There are parts where the two are dancing next to each other and his feet are moving twice as fast as hers.
That’d be the basic, easy footwork for centaurs, of course. Once they get the hang of it, I bet they would start working four hooves independently, or a pair and then two singles, or lots of different things in different patterns. 🙂
That’d be lots of fun! And poor me, with only two feet! 🙂
Well, that`s just a weird day indeed! Highs and lows..I really hope the Hollywood thing will work out for you, that would be so awesome!
Nothing wrong with todays page, I love the face slapping of Paddington, and hey, he finally noticed Alex! 😀
Scott,
Thank you for working so hard for us. Please be sure to get some sleep!
Scott: Try cpmstar.com
Happy Birthday
Thank you all. I will definitely let you know if anything happens.
I am getting my sleep. Thank you.
🙂
And thank you Protected. I’ll look into cpmstar.
Congrats for the movies, great stuff to dream about!!
You could also look into making a video game, you already have all the models set up for you. From what i know of steam and SDK tools, its simple to import anything from Maya, 3ds max, and the like. And thats just one of the good game engines.
Huh? I’m probably the only person in the world who can notice this but one of the centaurs in the top panal looks like a chicken. 0.o
and in the third panal the expresion on the purple one looks odd.
other than that the page was awesome!
Love Paddington’s big grin. 🙂
I just realised what everyone else is talking about!
Dreamland moovie!
Damn I know I’d watch it!
I love all of those hooves sticking up in the air!
And hey, I’ll be first in line to see the Dreamland movie when it comes ou! You can count on me!
I think the only thing I can think of for this page is that Alex is glowing a bit too much in the bottom panel. No one else seems to notice that though, so I guess it’s fine. Otherwise the page is great fun! I thought that there would be some problems with getting centaurs to dance, but never imagined them to be so hilarious.
Oh, I’m sure that, if centaurs can sing, they can dance. Just not waltzes, and polkas, and other fast, twirly dances. Not without plenty of adaptation anyway.
Dreamland movie!!?? SQUEEE!
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*blush*
(I don’t think I’ve ever squee’d before … )
Er, I mean … clearly that “squee” came from someone else. *looks around* After all, a 37-year old straight male with a deep baritone voice does NOT (and cannot, to be honest) “squee”.
😉
To Heck with pretentious masculinity! Squee-ing is an equal opportunity pastime!
Naked centaurs?
It’s the sound of metamorphic rock being formed.