Man, every time I kick off the illustration phase of a new chapter - starting at 0% - I just can't believe the amount of work that's lying ahead of me. And this time this is especially true. As you can see in the milestone illustration above, Chapter 6 is going to be a MONSTER of a chapter. It's pretty much the size of Chapter 1 and 2 combined! It even makes the giant Chapter 5 look ridiculously small. And the beast has a name! The title of Chapter 6 of the Wormworld Saga is:
Chapter 6 - The Smoldering Doom
There you go. What a fitting title. Everything will go down. I will die trying to battle this beast.
Just kidding! In fact this chapter is so long for a very good reason. Since there also exists a book edition of the Wormworld Saga for some time now (in German and French as of this date) I started to wonder how many pages future books should have and how many chapters to put into each one of them. The first book contains the first three chapters which add up to 90 story pages which in fact is a very nice chunk to read. The second book is going to be a bit shorter containing Chapter 4 and 5. For the third book I'd love to have more pages to read again and so I decided to make Chapter 6 and 7 bigger, so that combined they will aproximately fill 100 pages.
The crazy thing is that although I intentionally gave me more room to "play" with this time I don't feel like I had more room that I needed. The different sequences in this chapter are still very concise and I often had to shorten things up in order to not run out of space. There are some more atmospheric shots in this chapter compared to the other ones and I even have some scenes in which there's no dialog at all. But from my point of view there's no "wasted" space in this chapter and I really think I wouldn't have been able to make it any shorter. Maybe it's true what they say: you'll always fill up the space that you're given.
Ok, so from now on there will be milestone updates again. With preview pictures! Man, I'm looking forward to that!
Stay tuned!
Hey Daniel! Glad to hear that some progress is coming in! Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteHi Daniel, I was wondering, how about the spanish version of the book? I'll buy it for sure, give it a though!
ReplyDeleteI got to admit that even all this time you still have the ability to enthuse me! :)
ReplyDeleteA large beast indeed.
Looking forward to milestone update, too! I'm glad that you're willing to put so much effort in this. By the way, Daniel, I've purchased the Collector's edition in ios app, however there's a little tiny stuff that bug me, so I'll just let you know about it incase anyone else didnt.
ReplyDeleteIn the "production note" in "Sketch Mode" of every chapters, the note arent in landscape rotation like the panels are, and they stay in the portrait mode. So everytime I clicked on it, I have to tilt my Ipad 90' to read them.
Another thing is during the start of the app, the panning of the artwork showing credits, the same problem happens. It stays in portrait mode and only switches to landscape mode after I tapped into any chapters.
I hope there'll be a fix in the next update of the app!
All the best in Chapter 6, big fan!
The problems inside the app you are describing are due to compatibility issues with iOS7. I'm also hoping that things get fixed soon by the developers. They have a lot of apps to optimize for iOS7 and I'm sort of standing in the line with the Wormworld Saga App. However, the issues are known and the next update should fix them.
DeleteHey! An occasion to celebrate for your readers ;) the first update of many to come! Thanks a lot. Very much looking forward to the publication of the first French book as if it is on time it will be my brother's birthday present.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your work and hi to the family!
Uhhh *freu* *freu* *freu* Ich bin jetzt schon ganz aufgeregt! Ich hoffe du kommst gut vorran angesichts dieses Monsterkapitels :D Drücke alle vorhandenen Daumen, damit alles so klappt, wie du es dir erhoffst!
ReplyDelete*freudig durch die Wohnung hüpf*
Grüße
Wow - that's a mammoth chapter! Looking forward to more beautiful art.
ReplyDeletewishing i could enlarge that narrow bar a bit to get a glimpse on how the story goes on, and no, i'm not nervous at all, tap tap tap ;) Ralf
ReplyDeleteHi Daniel first of all i want to say you make a fantastic job, its a great journey seeing your work, but just one thing. I bouht your inapp extra feature on your vol n3 novel, but there are somes issues on galaxynote 10.1 ed2014, the sketch part history pictures are really small and button autor comments dont work the green key dont work too, so i cant unlock artbook counterpart, im really frustating.
ReplyDeletemy device run on android 4.3. Thanks for your help
Hey Francis,
Deletethanks for reporting your problems with the app. These are severe problems that I will report to the developers personally. It would be great if you could send me an email to mail ("at") wormworldsaga.com with some additional info. Does this problem occur with all chapters or is chapter 3 the only/first chapter you're encountering these problems with?
I'll send you some screencapture of my device, it'll be more clearer to explain. I can't tell you if there are the sames problems on others chapters, its the first chapter i bought.
DeleteThanks a lot Daniel, your work is very inspiring.
Au toll! Ab jetzt wird es für uns wieder spannend, das freut mich so! :)
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