Celestial Gate - Our First Ever Release!
🕑 Added 2023-03-13 18:39:26 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
Thank you so much for the support you've shown this project so far! We've been working very hard in the background trying to get this project just right for all to enjoy. It's been several months in the making so please let us know what you think. :)
This is the scene version of our Celestial Gate battlemap. Follow that link if you want to grab the battlemaps to go with it!
We wanted the scene to feel like you're peaking through the birch forest to this mysterious glade of ancient stones beneath the dappled light. We're really happy with how this one turned out and we really hope you enjoy the animated versions too for your games.
How will your players activate the Celestial Gate and what will happen when they do?
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For this release, we collaborated with the talented Arcane Anthems so you'll have some beautiful, magical background music to combine with this scene!
They wrote a wonderful track for the Celestial titled Dark Delirium Ethereal Mystery which you can download for free. You can check out the rest of their RPG music library here.
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Get this week's scenes using the links below:

Celestial Gate - $1 Rewards - Day & Night Variations

Celestial Gate - $5 Rewards - All Variations
Celestial Gate - $10 Rewards - Animated Scenes
Celestial Gate - $10 Rewards - VTT Modules
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This week's scene variations

Comments
GABRIEL TOMAZINI MARANI
awesome, but i think it's missing the desert variations
Czepeku Scenes
It's our pleasure! We hope your players enjoy it!
Miriam Feldhausen
I use this location extensively in a game I run--thank you SO much for this beautiful art!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you. I might even do that myself!
Dungeons & Rapeize
This is awesome, i'm even thinking about using them as a dinamic desktop background. So beautifull, you are the best
Plastic Mohawk
Sure, glad to help. My use case is as a worldbuilder using Foundry VTT. A game world in Foundry VTT has a login screen. Initially I submitted a feature request to Foundry VTT to allow an mp4 to be used as a background for the login screen, so I could use your scenes there. They replied and told me while the login screen backgrounds don't support mp4, it's already possible to use an animated .webp in this area, so I did a quick-and-dirty conversion to test and this does indeed work. I explored a few online free mp4 to webp converters out there and while they do the job, they seem to apply a very heavy compression to the webp output which results in the quality taking a severe hit, and if I can get away with it, I'd rather not upload your art to some quasi-shady online site. I realize this ask does mean a bit more work for your team and if it's an issue, I understand and I can keep shopping around for a conversion method I can use on my end whenever you do a release. However it would be super convenient for me to have the animated webp file available with each Foundry scene module you put out. Happy to reach out to someone via DM on your Discord to show an example of my use case using my own Foundry world if it helps. Thanks for your consideration!
Czepeku Scenes
Hi Axis, I'll ask our animator to see if the quality remains when exporting them on our end! Is there an issue with using the MP4 beyond file size please? Just interested to know the reasoning.
Plastic Mohawk
These are great! Is it possible to get animated webp versions of these? I've tried using one of those free online converters but the image quality takes a significant downgrade.
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you so much!!
BigHeartedGuy
As if your maps weren't mind blowing enough... this is amazing
Czepeku Scenes
Great idea! We've got a lot in the works so you'll have many more options soon enough!
Druid
Looks great! Just used these to make a cleaner landing page for my VTT. I can’t wait to add future scenes!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you so much!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you! Enjoy!!
ZorkFox
Hooooooly crap! This is even better than I expected! :D
Mirriky
These look incredible! I cannot *wait* to use these
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you so much!
Winnie
Ya'll are insane for this. Truly one of THE BEST mapmakers Ive ever seen!!!!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you so much!
Rob Leonard
Exactly what I was hoping for! Love all the variants and the animated versions are really well done. Having all these options is so useful, allowing me to choose just the right look and feel for what I need. Looking forward to more...cheers!
Czepeku Scenes
Really glad you like them! Thank you!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you!
AliceInMundaneLand
This is incredible! Wasn't expecting animated ones, blown away! :D
Ren
Gorgeous! Well done, can’t wait to use these in Alchemy
Czepeku Scenes
Should be fixed now! :)
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you!
Czepeku Scenes
Awesome!
Czepeku Scenes
Perfect timing!!!
Czepeku Scenes
I'm so glad!
Czepeku Scenes
You're right! All working now!
tartarts
I love it :3
Oliver Volland
Animated Map doesn't work: {"errors":[{"code":902,"code_name":"AttachmentNotFound","detail":"Attachment with id 13254102 was not found.","id":"c70ece63-786e-5e98-90d4-1b459b6a34a9","status":"404","title":"Attachment was not found."}]}
Hilary Koss
what Zack said! Excited to use these, too but yep, just a broken link to tweak
Scott Brown
Just used this animated map last night for a session, players loved it. They're still around it investigating, so now I can throw this up too! This is just too sick.
Eduardo Ramirez
Hell yeah my players were just about to enter this map
Alfredo Gallardo
These are fantastic!
Zachafinackus
They look great! Just a heads up, the animated scene hyperlink on this post doesn't go anywhere or download anything, just leads to a 404 page.
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you!
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you!
Artemisthemp
Those are beautiful, do appears the Animated Scene is missing
Czepeku Scenes
Thank you so much! That's exactly what we'd hoped!
Alex J Waddington
I would like to specifically thank you for the projection variant. That moment literally happened in my campaign and I can now share a perfect visual! Since they return to the portal occasionally, the other variations are also very useful.
Remora Jewel
These are stunning!!
Doran Teverovsky
Gorgeous!