I've just finished illustrating the final artwork of Chapter 5!
I can't really describe how I feel now. It's always such a weird feeling when there is no next panel to work on. For the last 3 months I've worked through the seemingly endless list of panels. This chapter was HUGE! You can see in the illustration above that it's by far the longest chapter of all. And I painted in in a higher resolution than the other ones (because of some HD goodness that's going to happen in the near future). And the illustration above does not even show the full height of the chapter because just before the last milestone I added 4 extra panels that I felt were neccessary. The interesting thing is that, judged by the working hours, this chapter wasn't much more work than Chapter 3. I worked 332 hours on the final artwork of Chapter 5 and 305 hours on the final artwork of chapter 3. That can mean only one thing - I've gotten faster!
Ok, there's still some stuff to do now which will keep me busy all week. The layout has to be done, the extra content for the app and a substantial website update has to be prepared. Yes, the look of the website will change considerably. I've got to do something against the clutter and visual noise that has built up there. and I've got to paint the cover illustration of course. But everything is under control now and I can savely commit to a final release date:
Chapter 5 will be released on March 31st at 10:00pm German time.
I thought it was a nice idea to set the launch date on Easter Sunday. It's a little bit like the Christmas launches that we had with Chapter 1 and 2. I soon will install a countdown on the website so that you can easily see when the time has come no matter in which timezone you are.
And I've got another announcement to make. Remember the kickstarter campaign that we launched with Chapter 4 last year in August? My wife and I have finished our work on the webshop that we funded through that and together with Chapter 5 we will finally launch The Wormworld Shop!
Now, that's going to be exciting. I really can't wait to get all this stuff online.
And although there normally are no preview images on the last milestone update, I've got a little something for you. The panel contains spoilers so I can only show you a slice of it.
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| Sunset at the River of Life |
See you in a few days!
Man! The colors... the colors... :-x
ReplyDeleteich freue mich jetzt noch mehr auf sonntag!
ReplyDeletegruß aus dem nordwestlichen eckchen von nrw!
mist - nordöstlich... diese kälte hat mein gehirn eingefroren...
DeleteYes, it is cold and windy in NRW. So follow the little boy into the spectacular Wormworld!
ReplyDeleteSir Daniel, You saved my easter weekend. Your web comic is a real work of art.
That's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHi Daniel,
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit confused about your Countdown: it says now 9 days and 12 hours, while according to my calendar and watch it should be more like 4 days and 2 hours... (or even more accurate: 1 hour - depending on how you count the days).
Are you still confirming 31st of March, 10:00 German time (and have you taken the summertime clock adjustment into account)?
@ Counter Problems:
ReplyDeleteIf the countdown does give you weird results, please try to refresh the website. It's possible that you got an old script file in your cache. 31st March is still the launch date.
Looking forward to it. I know I haven't posted as much this last chapter. Been really busy, and I really need to do some fan art for this. But I look forward to sitting down and reading Each Chapter up to the new one. :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats Daniel.
good work, thumbs up.
ReplyDeleteOooooh yes, less than a day now! I feel like we're past the prologue in general, but I never know for sure. Either way, looking forward to dazzling my eyes with more of your work man!!
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