Great news. The fine folks at Wowio have given me the green light to have SPECIAL EDITION issues of Dreamland with ANIMATED frames.
I hatched the idea to animate some frames of the book here and there.
Each issue (I'll try to do one issue a week) will have 7-10 pages of animated frames.
Depending on what I can do time-wise and what seems fun.
Note: I just realized I forgot to put the animation for Page 9 in the table of contents of the comic.
So if you know anyone who's downloaded it. Remind them that there's one more please.
Anyways. These ANIMATED issues have NO behind the scenes pages as the "regular" issues have.
So if you like seeing the designs, sketches, and model work that goes into Dreamland. Make sure you also download the "regular" versions as well.
Thanks again…and please let me know your thoughts.
Whoa! That's amazing! You should seriously consider a Dreamland movie one day ^-^ b!
This is, perhaps, one of the coolest, most brilliant ideas I've ever seen.
It sounds like an interesting concept. It is a shame that it is limited to US residents only.
I get the impression that WOWIO like many other US companies finds it difficult to believe that there are people and places outside the USA….
I'd love to make a movie one day. We'll see.
As for the US problems. It's not due to them not liking people outside of the US…ha ha.
It's simply that their Advertisers are wanting to keep the books for US only. It's how Wowio is able to pay us. So we really can't complain.
Again. I don't think it's against any rules if you know of people in the US who could help you get an account or help you download it.
I'll check with Wowio to see if that's ok.
I think these are going to really fun. ANd I don't want so many of you to miss out. So please do what you can to see them all.
This fight scene would look best animated. I'll admit it's been a little boring watching them fight while standing still.
Im having some trouble trying to view the animation. The file opens in Adobe Reader but when I click it just highlights the window like your gonna copy it.
Are you clicking on the right frames?
It's only one frame on each of those pages.
He yields! He yields! Don't give in, Alex! Kill him!!!! Al's not gonna let him live, is he?
Do we ever get to see the Nightmare Realm? I'm really curious about it.
Looking good, scott. You're one hell of an animator.
Though you might want to have another look at that fighting sequence you showed in the test.
The sword fight isn't animated. those are just the various keys from that page.
So you're seeing the computer interpolate the in betweens.
Sorry if I was confusing. But if I had time to animate everything. I…well. I just don't.
But I think a mix of turnarounds, flythroughs, and character animation is a good middle ground for us all.
Let me know your thoughts people!
Likewise the test pages will not work for me. Could this have anything to do which the fact that I'm using Safari, or that I'm using a Mac computer?
The pdf opens with Safari; is there, perhaps, a different program that I should be opening it with?
Phooie! My page 17 animation doesn't work. The rest looks great though. Here's hoping you win the lottory or sell a whole bunch of ideas to people with way too much money themselves.
The animations are great!! I'm really impressed. Who knew that Adobe Acrobat had such capabilities?? Your level of professionalism and enterpreneurship always amazes me, Scott.
I know others who use Macs have mentioned that it needs to work in Adobe acrobat. Not in Safari.
So try saving the file to your desktop and opening it in the latest Adobe Acrobat.
Also. Try downloading the whole book from Wowio and it will save to your computer and open in Adobe Acrobat.
That's wierd that you can open one and not the other.
I hope you can get it working. Thanks for the kind words too.
I'm as shocked as you are about this…ha ha.
Problem with the animation in the test.pdf, and it's not a technical issue; the content plays fine. The problem is with the pirate's sword.
When viewing the static scene (from behind Alex), the pirate's sword's tip is to the right of Alex's blade. During the animation, as our viewpoint turns, the pirate's sword appears to "move", passing *through* Alex's blade, ending up on the blade's left, and partially piercing the guard. It's not a show-stopper, but it is distracting.
Please remember. A lot of these are just "turnarounds" to show you the various angles of a page.
In that instance. I'm showing you all 3 frames of that page…but in motion.
I originally did that for the Forum as people were looking at that page and not understanding the camera movement.
So I simply spread the frames out so they could see the camera fly.
It's impossible for me to actually ANIMATE ever panel I will be putting up in the books.
So there will be some where I simply rotate the camera (and yes you will see swords going through eachother and what not) and others where I will have time to actually animate a character.
It's all to give the readers another look at the world and have some fun.