The Dreamland Chronicles Page 29…
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Hi all!
Happy Monday!
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And so it begins…
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to ask this more delicately, but I haven’t succeeded, so here goes. Will Tracy be evolving her art style as the story continues? Not that what she’s done isn’t beautiful (because it is) but part of what attracted me to The Dreamland Chronicles in the first place was the art style and the way I could get more involved in the story as a result. Tracy’s current art style, from what I’ve seen, looks beautiful but lacks the spark that is required for the suspension of belief that originally drew me in. To be clear, that’s not going to stop me from donating to the comic, something I rarely do for web comics, but it’s been in the back of my mind for a while now and I was wondering what your answer would be.
Aww! I know the feeling, but it’s the opposite for me. When Tracey took over in the last chapters, I felt much more involved, particularly with the characters. In some of the new pages, I’m finding it easier to see what’s going on. I’m not sure why, but I think it’s because artists can make key details stand out, which makes things easier for my poor overworked brain. Plus… I find it easier to read cartoon faces than real ones~
thank you both for asking.
I’ve asked Tracy to push herself away from my original layout and storytelling.
She started doing that in the last few pages of Chapter 2 (which is currently on Patreon) and it’s much better.
If you look at the last two chapters of the series that she did… I think there was a wonderful sense of motion that she was able to get that I couldn’t with 3D.
So for the rest of this chapter and a bit of Chapter 2… it follows my storytelling pretty close (which I don’t like). But after that… it gets better.
The disadvantage: by the time she gets to the chapter she originally drawn, the style would be so different she would need to redraw it again …
Ha ha. I was thinking that. It’ll be several years until she gets to the last two chapters and I’m expecting she looks at them and thinks “Ugh. I can do WAY better now!”
I myself am somewhat ambivalent about that. There was, definitely, a certain innocence, for lack of a better term, which I liked about the 3D style. Then again, the 2D style allows for more organic and better flowing movements, and more expressive characters (i.e. easier to manipulate/draw facial features).
Had I never knows The Dreamland Chronicles in 3D, the 2D style is nice enough that I probably would have been hooked (I tend to eschew story-driven webcomics that are too cartoonish in style, favoring instead more realistic ones – inasmuch as one can be “realistic” while protraying fairies, rock creatures, and so on. that is…)
So far, I have liked the fact that the storyboarding was the same, with a 2D style, which made it different yet alike enough to be familiar. For some stuff, the 3D was simply glorious in the details it gave, particularly since everything had texture, but in other instances, it felt a little stiff, and at times unnatural. For instance, Nicodemus always looked like a plastic toy figurine, to me… In the 2D version, Nicodemus looks like he fits in just fine, and is a biological mystical (mythical?) entity, just like the rest of the Dreamland denizens.
So I guess I won’t worry too much about comparing the two styles, but will simply enjoy the retelling of a well-known, beloved story in a new style. (Though I will probably, from time to time, compare the two, out of curiosity and to refresh my memory of the old one…)