The Crystal of Nysul - Chapter 2

Well this chapter took a long time! I did learn some neat photoshop workflow tricks though. A shout out to MCaesar and Zerok on the forums for feedbacks!

The Crystal of Nysul, Chapter 2 preview.

First of all, thank you for all the positive feedbacks for Chapter One! It means a lot and definitely motivates me to continue the series!

I've got some rough ideas of the sets I intend on using, and what direction the story may go. Progress will be slower for Chapter 2 however as I'm learning and experimenting with new effects. The previews below are by no means final, but it's a sneak peak!

What do you guys think?

The Crystal of Nysul

I guess The Taming was a valuable lesson for me in developing a story out of a photo series, a lesson that I took to heart when I started The Crystal of Nysul.

Temptation

After reading Callidus's interviews, I decided to follow his advise to find good source materials for my next manip. Having done a few Hive and Tech manips, I felt the need to explore magic themed MC, and stumbled upon BareMaidens.

Holy shit I'm already seeing an epic story unfold from some of the sets.... I said I didn't want to touch a long series for a while, but I'm already so inspired by this that I think I'm going to go ahead and tell another tale. The only difference is, I'll be doing shorter chapters, and finish each one before I start the uploads.

Picture Post: Read

So with a few Hive themed manips the last few days, I felt I've learnt a lot to get me started on the image side of things with SymCity. This morning with a little of a free time left I have this weekend, I decided to give Magic theme a go.

As you can probably guess already, each main MC theme in SymCity will have a colour theme as well. Green for Hive, red for Magic, and Traditional / Tech theme will be blue.