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It was NIGHT TIME in DREAMLAND!
I don’t know how many of you caught this site during the evening…but Tyler set up my site so that when it’s day…the site is normal.
But at night…the sky goes to stars…a big bright moon is out…and it’s SO COOL!
It’s like having TWO SITES!
🙂
We’re still tweaking. So thanks for your patience.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Next week…Alexander reads the letter. I promse. Monday you hear it. And it goes a couple days I think.
So stay tuned.
Thank you all for the help. And your support!
See you in a couple days.
Scott
That is neat, I like the layout. Maybe an idea would be to have it night during dreamland sequences, and day during the real world sequences?
Love the new look! The header definitely emphasizes the whole dreamland quality of the setting. Moreso than the daytime layout does.
Totally love the night look! I think I actually prefer it to the daytime settings…but then, I’ve always been a bit of a night owl and stargazer. 🙂
The starry background is gorgeous!
And I really can’t wait ’til Monday’s episode! I gotta know what Nicole’s letter says and how Felicity will react!
I love the night time look. It makes everything so more exciting at night with a different back ground. It’s totally cool.
It’s killing me! I wanna know what Nicole wrote!! I can’t wait!
i love the lay out looks so cool now to see a way to tell when its night and day
The night version looks awesome, but why do I have the sneaky suspicion that this is going to be the wrong way around when I get back to Japan next week. 🙂
I can’t wait for Monday! I want to know what Nicole wrote!! XD
When I came on to the sight I thought things looked a little different. The night theme is a very nice touch!
OMG it’s nighttime! I love how gorgeous it looks (and now I appreciate our timezone differences hahaha!)
As far as tweaking goes just get all of the buildings dark with all the lights on and it’s perfect ^^
In my timezone, at the time when I read comics (morning), it is night – so I just thought you changed design 🙂
I caught it! It’s really cool, Scott. 😀
You know whats funny is since I’m reading this from Japan it will always be dark for me.. kind of like how World of Warcraft was lol. Anyways I actually like the night version better and it works so awesome with the theme of the story so I’m cool with it. Great idea!
i npoticed it and it makes this comic even more of an Epic Win
I hate waiting for the next ep[isode, thank god Im going to jail for a month
Darn, I’m missing it. The background looks like a standard day to me…
Oh man I want that moon in a massive poster in my room. It’s beautiful! Way to go Tyler!
And also: comeonFelicitylistentotheletterrrr!!!!
Try doing a hard refresh on the site. (CTRL + F5) That should clear out your cache and force it to reload the whole page from scratch.
Hmmm, who ate my last comment? 😀
Where are the voting buttons, anyway?
Whoa…the moon is just so cool over Astoria like that. Maybe Nicodemus will hit his head on it flying back.
“Dear Felicity, you may already be a winner.”
lol i would totally love that!
The new night-time thing is soooooooooo cool, but I do agree with Jac that the buildings could use some tweaking.
Go Alex! Believe you can save her and all will be well!
It’s so beautiful! The colors in the night sky are so awesome…
Definitely different, and cool.
Alas, you’re going to have fun synching it to times zones around the world. Maybe it could be set up to slowly change from day to night and back over the space of several minutes? It would be fun the first time someone scrolls down the page to read comments, then goes back to the top and… “When did that happen?!?!!”
Once you get that transition worked out, you could do it with other images, say one with Alex in the middle surrounded by the waking world, and then have it change to Alex still in the same position, but with his armor and Dreamland fading in around him.
Ah well, another weekend when we’ll all have to wait to see what happens!
p.s. I sent you an email last night with an expanded list of possible filming locations for the movie. Enjoy!
One: I love stars, Star Wars, Starships, Starbucks, and everything that has something to do with stars… oh wait, nope i think Starbucks’ only good since the morning punch.
Two: This looks incredibly awesome!
Three: I live in Europa, on the other side of the planet so i pretty much get to see this all day. Yay! 🙂
Looove the Moon! 😉
Its funny, cause I’m from Germany and its about lunchtime and bright sunshine here! ^^
I read Dreamland for quite some time now, but never posted a comment before! 🙂
Tyler FTW!
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY!! I love the stars background 😀 I LUFF it!
This is awesome! The stars and the moon are beautiful. Maybe next we can get a sunset 😉
Shweeeet!!! Love the night time background… although its morning now. lol!
Yay! I’m so glad we’ll get to “hear” the contents of the letter along with Felicity. Thanks Scott!! 😀
Great idea.
I’ll turn on the lights.
Thanks!
Sorry to hear that.
Got ’em.
Thanks so much!
It’s daytime here. 8am it ticked over.
ANyone else?
Oh…also.
Has anyone checked out the new JUKEBOX?
Top right of the page.
Thanks to Scotty and Tyler for getting that thing upgraded.
Now you can listen to it while you read.
I shall be putting in new music (along with some ones I had in previously) over the weekend.
Love the new look.
A magnificent feature; it’s refreshingly creative and applied well!
Man, I picked the wrong time to fix my sleep schedule; Blast you, Scott! I want to find out how you solve this particular situation without a dem(deus ex machina, thank you Negima!).
I really hope Felicity pulls through; I love cats(I practically grew up with them when I was little, and there have only been about 2 times in my life were I haven’t owned at least one), and I definitely hope Nicole’s words help her.
waaaah~!! i can’t wait to see the site at night =D
I added some ivy in the header of the page (just under the castle).
What do you guys think?
Good kind of scenic.
Cool site effects, Scott! Like the way the story is headed, as well. (the ivy is a nice touch). I like the new color on the mouse overs for the buttons too.
I stopped by but it was dark, I was alone and got scared so had to come back now. I hope it’s not a ‘dear Felicity’ note!
Alex: Sigh. OK. Here goes.. . .
“Dear Homeowner,
Are you tired of tossing and turning all night long on your old mattress? Try our new sleep number bed with patented “Memory Zone” technology!. . . ”
Wait, what? Oh, man! Nicole gave me her junk mail!
First to post about the lights in the windows. Uber-cool!
A very minor point here, but the bottom 2 or 3 pixels of the large nighttime purple C in Chronicles have been cut off. The drop shadow is unaffected, but the C has a flat bottom, unlike the Daytime C.
Hm. It’s night time at 12:45pm PDT.
I don’t know why it’s night time again.
Ha ha.
I guess Tyler’s playing around a bit.
Fixed it. Thanks
Aw… it’s so nice. At the moment the plot is making my heart feel all warm and my eyes feeling a little moist! 😛 Your story’s tugging on my heartstrings Mr Sava! XD
i would love to see that !
the jukebox no worky i like the new skin for it though just not giving me a playlist.
OK. Here’s something I’ve been looking at for a long time but it never really came to the surface until now.
With many CGI comics, you’ll see characters in exactly the same pose from panel to panel. Scott apparently hates seeing comics look that way because he always tries to get at least some sort of movement out of the non-comatose characters. Just like in real life how are eyes and heads and hands move a bit all the time, seeing characters do this TDC makes them that more believable.
What OS and web browser are you using?
Thank you. It’s subtle…but I’m glad someone noticed.
🙂
Yay! we get to read the letter!!! I hope it’s good.
I totally agree with JakesDad, that’s one of the little things that makes the Dreamland Chronicles the awesome comic it is today(and for as long as people can read for that matter)!
It’s been noticed, but usually as a “hey, why did their (insert bodypart here) move!”, lol
Just wanted to stop by and check out the night time Dreamland before it got too dark and I had to run away and hide in terror. Looks good!
Nighttime Dreamland took me completely by surprise today. It looks awesome! I also loved the lighting in today’s panel. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to on Monday!
OMG! I love the night background! it’s fantastic! ^_^
I think as much as anything, it shows you care enough to make it right rather than make it quick. It comes across as one word. Quality.
With scanning and Photoshop, hand drawn comics are the worst offenders of this. Reusing backgrounds or large protions of characters is most common. For instance moving only the head or eyes while making a copy from frame 1 for the rest.
Because your work is so photo-realistic, taking shortcuts would stand out even more. As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with all the weirdness that 3-D modeling tools, shaders, lighting sources, etc. etc. give you.
Do you have a portfolio of exceptionally humorous or weird rendering errors? Nothing like being the unwitting beta-tester for a company’s software. One example was the Chia-pet look in the Shrek extra DVD content.
Scott, about the ivy: It looks good, I vote to keep it! 😀
About the day/night cycle: It’s awesome! Kudos Tyler! 😀
About my use of the word “awesome”: So my friend says to me, “Do you realize you use that word alot, but only when you talk about two things?” I was a bit taken aback by that as I hadn’t noticed at all. He continued, “Yeah, when you talk about scuba diving or about that Dreamland web comic. Otherwise it’s like ‘awesome’ isn’t even in your vocabulary.”
I thought I’d share that awesome revelation with ya! 😀
Cheers and hope you all have an awesome weekend! (I really mean that too!) 😀
~PD
I live in an entirely different timezone, so I’ll probably be seeing night at day 😉
I know this is a little belated but i just wanted to say “Yay!” to the page navigation buttons on the top of the comic instead of only on the bottom. That’s been a long time wish for me so if i miss a day i don’t have to risk spoiling anything by scrolling down before i can push the “back” button. Very nice work on the new site design. =)
It’s been a little over a year since I started reading this. I love it so much =o
What time zone are you using? Is it based on sunrise/sunset or just 12 hours each day? What time would it change?
I swear it just changed for me (at 14:15 local (UK) time).
Are we going to find out the contents of the letter on Monday?
{Sorry if this is the second time I’ve asked but the first comment seems to have entered a black hole.}
I just had a thought: If someone posts a comment at the change over, it looks like that comment gets lost. Could there be a fix for it, please?
Thanks PD…
I feel….AWESOME!
🙂
The moment of truth and… Of course, he just leads into it on Friday – leaving us the weekend to stew. 😛 Color me unsurprised. 😀
I dunno. I kinda like it attached to real world time. After all Alex sleeps during the day too, naps and stuff, so it’d be harder to keep straight.
You are INCREDIBLE!!! I’ve been giddy and sayin’ “Cool” to myself for the last 10 mnts, outloud and inwardly. Always up a notch… *sigh* 😀 And I loooove the night-thingie (thought it was a permanent thing, but now that i read it’ll vary with the timezone, giddy + 20).
On the other hand: very good development of the dramatic moment.
Also, if you’re going to make us cry with the whole process… be so kind to put up enough Kleenex! You’ll have your web soaked! 😛
P.s.: Please, do be careful about the colors in the face of the elven princess. You don’t want to make ’em to even or her own expression will not be noticed. (Just a thought)
My friend… keep strong, keep healthy and a loooots of lucks! Bye!
First comment here. I noticed that it seems now that not only does the page change but the lighting in the actual comic changes too? I came here last night and the comic was dark like nighttime (and the page was gorgeous as well, love the stars and moon) and now in the day the comic has sunshine. So I thought it was amazing that the comic seems to have been changing too and not just the page around it. Awesome work!
P.S. I love the comic and cannot wait for the movie! Hopefully it will be a first of many. <3
AAARRGH!!! I started on Friday and I caught up last night, now I have to actually wait for updates! NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Such an amazing comic, I love it thoroughly. Wonderful work.
How would the buildings look decked in neon lights unless nobody wants Dreamland turned into the Las Vegas Strip!
How about adding a cast page?
xp and i believe 7 still comany wont updated. works now though
Well, at the point that I’m reading this, you should be pretty close to getting back; so here’s a preemptive “welcome back!”
😉
😀 very funny!
*smacks head* Dude! Just read it already! The suspense is killing me! Sorry Felicity, no pun intended!