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What is iBoD?

Short for “In Balance of Dreams.” The title of my fancomic for the movie Epic (2013) by BlueSky Studios (rip)

What is the comic about?

800 years following the events of Epic (2013), disease and overgrowth are widespread throughout the kingdom and to continue the life of the forest, a prince is selected rather than a queen. Unsure of the reason why he was chosen, Janus the prince and his royal guard Callum are tasked with solving the imbalance of the tiny world they inhabit as they discover more about his powers.

A complete original story taking place within the Epic universe.

Who are the characters?/Will movie characters appear?

We have the protagonist Janus, the deuteragonist Callum, and Clark the Mushroom (concepts here). There’s plenty more in this epic universe.

Movie characters will be referenced! Their inclusions would be more like allusions with the exception of two characters (that’s for later in the story ;3)

How is this being released/When does the comic update?

Whenevers! I’m aiming for monthly issue releases (as typical of serial works) on the 21st of each month. I pour a lot of love into these pages, so I like taking my time with them. This is my first long-running comic, so I’m not sure on when I’m finishing the entire thing. I estimate roughly 60 issues for the whole story. These issues may turn into fragmented releases at some point for personal health reasons. It might be a long commitment tbh (sorry)

I only ask for everyone’s patience when it comes to reading. This is a very passion based project, it’s something I work on if I decide to on my own. Let’s all just have fun with it!!!

Do you have any other work/any social medias?

Instagram/tiktok: @/bluxingg

That being said, I kindly request everyone to not repost my artwork to other platforms unless given permission to and/or it’s credited to this page. I prefer for this work to stay here. I will upload the comic to ao3 for mobile readers as well. (Link at the top)

Feel free to ask any other questions via ask box!

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July Update !

Hey everypony!!

We’re finally finishing Issue 3!!! Crazy to think that it’s almost been 6 months since I started updating and a day hasn’t even passed in canon lmfao. But that’s about to change!! Update is on time, we are totally finishing iss3!!

On another note…. I HAVE A VGEN NOW YAYAYAYAYAYAYA

VGEN PROFILE

Check out bluxingg's commissions and portfolio! | epic 2013 and yugioh zexal guy ...

I’m offering

$20 - skeb (give me a ref and I’ll give u a colored sketch)

$30 - simple illustrations (like iss1 and iss3 cover)

$70 - complex illustrations (like the iss2 cover)

Guys if u commission a related Epic (2013) skeb request, it’ll be $10 (I’ll give u a discount)

Yes guys!! Even you can own an epic 2013 fanpiece of art from me.

Anyways I should make a separate tumblr just for non-epic related stuff cause I do a lot of work outside of the comic, but I’m advertising this everywhere so whatever !!!

Note on the sketches included in this month’s update: been rewatching the tinkerbell movies lately and that’s where Janus’ cape inspo comes from. I drew my cute leafmen trio as different types of fairies.

Sydney as a fast-flying fairy. Callum a scout through and through. Then Janus as an unemployed bum fairy!!! (but in reality they’d all be scout fairies ngl)

That’s it until next time!!!!!

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Throughout the fancomic, I’ve been studying Sangjun’s concepts for Epic 2013 and realized how much of a sucker I am for dad and daughter dynamics. Hence the doodle of Boomba and MK. I’m very proud on how they turned out!!

Boomba is my fav kind of goofy dad trope in media. I felt his story was more compelling the MK tbh. But on the other hand MK’s old design was very cute and they did a prettyyy good job adapting Sangjun’s style to 3D with the final. I hope to one day master Epic (2013) art. Not that I’d want my art to look like this, but I could learn a thing or two from studies.

I don’t think I’d ever explore a parental relationship in iBoD cause Callum and Janus are alr independent at the time of the story, but who knows!!!

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June Update !!!!

Heyyyyy everyponyyyyyy,

Happy pride month!!! I made it in time for the June blog post. I’ve been rapidly improving my art, but have this funny thing where I don’t like changing the style drastically during the course of an issue. So I’ve created a dilemma where I’ve found faster ways to draw, but will stick to the old style of drawing for consistency. So the comic making process has been a DRAG and I want it to go faster so you can meet my goobers!!!!!! But I wouldn’t trade drawing the comic for anything else and I foresee only one part left of the third issue!!!! So it’s all clear from here!

I’ve included some children’s day illustrations of Cally, Jamu, Sydney (whom has not appeared yet….). I must admit that the comic has been updating too slow for my personal expectation, but it’s for the health of the project in the end so can’t do much there. I can promise one thing! Sydney will appear in the next issue (yay!!!)

anyways because the comic is too slow, I’m gonna info-dump to keep things spicy. In relation to the illustrations, I realized I never mentioned that Callum is two years older than Janus. So uh….how do they know eachother? Let’s segue into a strange Epic discussion !!! My unorthodox headcanon is that in Epic (2013) children have no “biological” parents. Kind of freaky but hear me out.

Jinn children sprout from flowers, seeds, or the wind or are born out of any natural element via forest (this in includes the Leafmen, ig they’re born from leaves???). They are adopted by two main individuals (their “parents/guardians”), but are raised in groups rather than a nuclear family. It takes a village to raise a kid afterall. For me the population of Jinn reflects the health of the forest. When Janus mentions “the lack of Jinn births” and “being one in a million,” it actually reflects whether the forest can spare the energy to create more individuals. To me, Jinn can only be born in a Goldilocks zone kind of sense. It’s not only their environment, but it’s the size that determines the result, they cannot be too big or small and the rare few who are the “right” size born at the right time are the cognitive ones that we know Jinn to be. This has been my only explanation for why some dandelions are inanimate and others are anthro. This extends to bugs/small amphibians like Buffo the Toad as well. It has to be just right for life to begin and it’s just another telling sign of the health of the kingdom.

Janus and Callum probably were cared for together and thus have that childhood bond. Janus is totally introverted and probably didn’t make any close friends outside of Callum until he met Sydney in leafmen camp (or whatever training they go though ig). Anyways!! Feel free to let me know ur personal headcanons about Epic (2013) lore, I’d love to share more and hear more as well! Just ask via askbox or comment below :ppppp

SEE YA GUYS IN A MONTH !!!!

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iDoB #3 - PART 2

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May update !!!!!

The issue release will be on time !! I decided to do something a little different for the cover art. During the break I did a few non-related art studies, but I ended up missing Cally and Jamu by the end of it. Feeling kind of insane, but everything I do is for IBOD !!! See u guys in the next oneeeeeeeeeee

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Haiiii everypony!! I wanted to give an April update! Unfortunately, there will be no issue release this month. I really wanted to be on time, but that’s life ig. The update will be pushed back to May.

We’re finally getting to a part of the comic that I’ve planned for YEARS. So I’m really determined to release it. For now please enjoy some old art of mine. It contains a sneak peek of what the next issue will be about ^^

I also included the mandatory silly doodle. First was drawn with my left hand and the last two are clips from Euphoria S2 that my friend showed me. I do have to make a disclaimer that Janus and Callum DO NOT share any storylines with Maddy and Cassie (??I think that’s her name). I just thought the scenario was funny to redraw. Anyways thanks for reading!! See u next month <33

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Ao3 Announcement + March Update

Haiiii everypony! I’ve officially published the comic to Archive of Our Own. It’s under the same title by bluxing. Here is the link!

In Balance of Dreams on Ao3

Please feel free to read the comic there for a mobile friendly UI. However issue releases will always be published here first and foremost, I only plan to update ao3 when I have time to do so. This blog is the best place to find all information regarding this series as well as additional doodles :3

March update is also on time, hooray! Please enjoy this artwork I’ve completed for the second issue’s cover. I look forward to releasing the rest of issue 2.

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Liddol February update, but first a huge hoorah for the completion of the first issue! I've said this plenty times before, but this project has been in development for a super long time. To finally see it and read it makes me so happy.

Along with a little doodle I made, I wanted to share fanart/gifts that some of my long-time moots gave to me on completion. (Yes Janus' official bday is January 21st). Here's to more content in the coming future.

As far as progress, I am set to release the first part of issue 2 on the 21st of this month (as I stated in the FAQ). I had an editor look over the story these past three weeks and it has been approved (woohoo!). Hopefully things stay on schedule.

Please look forward to that!

Last thing: the first doodle features some more cast members of the comic and unfortunately Janus is not as photogenic as them (he smiles with his teeth

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