Alright, a month has passed since the last milestone and it's time for an update. Milestone 3 was accomplished in about 27 hours. Therefore I should have finished it a bit ealier but some extremely warm weather and the FIFA worldcup have occupied some of my freetime last month. Well, I'm happy with my progress anyway and I'm looking forward to the next milestone. There's a significant twist in the story now and some very special panels have to be painted right at the beginning of milestone 4. I'm afraid, that from now on I won't be able to post a lot of panel artwork anymore. I want the second half of the first chapter to remain a complete mystery right up to the day when it gets published. However, this panel here was already shown as a layout so I guess it's ok to show it to you.
I want to thank you all for your encouraging comments. It really means a lot to me to get in contact with you through this blog and I'm insanely looking forward to the day when I'll be ready to share my work with you in it's completed form.
Hi Daniel, I really can't wait for this! Are you going to be sharing this in the form of a webcomic where you publish a page every so often, or are you looking to publish a printed book? Either way, I'm game, I'm just curious.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the awesome work, I've been following your art ever since you posted "The Journey Begins" WIP.
haha ist auch schwer sich von der WM ablenken zu lassen :D mach weiter so, du wirst schon wissen was das beste für dein graphic novel ist. auch wenn wir die nächsten posts keine bilder zu gesicht bekommen, wenn's dann am ende ganz toll wird, ist doch super =)
ReplyDelete@ Riki:
ReplyDeleteThe Wormworld Saga will be published as an online graphic novel which will be totally free to enjoy for everyone. I don't call it webcomic because I'm not going to follow the classic style of a webcomic (e.g. different pages with continuous updates at specific weekdays). I'm going to publish only comlete chapters because I don't want to tesselate the story too much.
@ John Patrick Deza:
Irgendwie muss man die Arbeit an so einem Projekt ja auch in sein Leben integrieren. Nicht immer ganz einfach, aber wenn man nicht zu verbissen rangeht, klappt es ganz gut. :)
Für die folgenden Updates werde ich bestimmt auch noch andere Sachen finden, die ich zeigen kann. Skizzen und so Sachen.
man bin ich gespannt!
ReplyDeletedas fühlt sich so schon super an das panel allein anzuschauen!
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThe worldcup shouldn't be a problem now any more. ;)
Hi Daniel,
ReplyDeleteI've been watching your work for a while and nothing you create fails to impress me, truly inspiring stuff.
Is the graphic novel going to be printed? If so you have a day one purchase right here!
@ Chris:
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Worldcup is over. But we suffer from unbearable heat in Germany at the moment. I can hardly sleep let alone work.
@ Shane:
Please check my reply above! It's going to be exclusively on the net and free.
Feuchte Halswickel helfen. ;)
ReplyDeleteIch verfolge den Blog sehr gespannt, und muss sagen, dass das alles wirklich großartig aussieht! Die Geschichte ist genau nach meinem Geschmack.
ReplyDeleteBesonders interessant finde ich auch dein strenges Zeitkonzept, dem du dich "unterwirfst". Ich glaube, das ist eine erfolgversprechende Herangehensweise an so ein Freizeitprojekt, obwohl das bei kreativer Arbeit ja schon relativ schwer fällt.
Also ich freue mich schon auf die Veröffentlichung des ersten Kapitels!
Hi Daniel, you might want to put a FAQ section on this site. I imagine you get a lot of repetitive questions like what I've asked, and what I'm about to ask: do you know how many volumes this story will have in total? :)
ReplyDelete@ Spikespine:
ReplyDeleteIm Moment "unterwerfe" ich mich der zeitlichen Planung nicht wirklich. Ich führe sie eher als Beobachtung und als Mittel, um Voraussagen zu tätigen. Meine Priorität liegt allerdings nicht auf einem bestimmten Veröffentlichungsdatum, sondern an der Qualität des Endproduktes. Dass meine bisherige Schätzung ein Release in diesem Jahr voraussagt, finde ich allerdings gut. :)
@ Riki:
What I do know is, that the whole story is devided into three parts (a trilogy so to say). Currently I think that each part will consist of up to 15 chapters. The exact number of chapters I will only find out by writing them of course. But you see that I'm good advised to find a way to do this fulltime. Otherwise I might not live long enough to finish the story. :)
Curiously, how much funding would you need to do it full time? I'm not sure if you know or not, but Jason over at reMIND used kickstarter.com and also the Xeric Foundation, and is getting a good bit of change to publish the book. Probably not enough to go full time, but might be a good start.
ReplyDeleteAround 15 chapters... well, I'll have entertainment for a good long while :D
@ Riki:
ReplyDeleteI'm watching Jason's project very closely since he started the reMIND blog. It's really great to see that his funding strategy for the book printing works out.
I'm also working on ways for fans to support my project. It will all be launched on a dedicated website together with the first chapter. Kickstarter definitely becomes an option, I watch it very closely.
When the first chapter is finished I will have some robust data to estimate the effort and "cost" for a single chapter. I will also know how many chapters I would be able to complete in a year if I would be working full time on it. Then it's simply deviding my yearly expenses by the number of chapters. I'm really curious to figure out these numbers in the future.
Thanks for your interest and input!
Goethe sagte mal: Je näher man an seinem Ziel ist desto schwieriger ist es zu erreichen.
ReplyDeleteDas ist Ermahnung und Ermutigung zugleich.
Zum einen wird einem klar, dass die bisherige Arbeit nicht vergebens war und zum anderen weiß man, dass man sein Ziel nur erreichen kann, wenn man bereit ist, genauso viel Aufwand in den letzten Part zu stecken wie bisher.
Was aber wichtig ist und was ich sehr bewundere ist, wieviel Liebe Du in das Projekt steckst. Man spürt eine emotionale Verbindung zu dem was Du tust.Es wäre schön, wenn das weiter so bleibt.
Alles Gute noch!
Mr. Nobody
HOLY SMOKES! Im so glad I stumbled upon your blog:) Everything looks amazing, ill defiantly be stopping to see what your up to.
ReplyDeleteI wish you all the best on this journey, full of great insights and adventure. Hope you find sound choices in the many decisions and creative obstacles you are incurring.
ReplyDeleteI'm also happy you don't charge me for the many times I've had Wormworld images on my desktop ;-)
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