Hey everyone I just want to apologize that I always reply late. I don't get home from work till almost 10. Tonight I finally got a mid shift. Anyways, the two comments above really made my day. Believe it or not the level of detail was my fear going into creating a deck of playing cards. Like most of you here, I have studied numerous playing card decks on the market and I was always blown away by the details.
I sat back and really thought at one point I wasn't going to be able to do that. Throughout this process I really leaned towards my girlfriend for help. She would always say well yeah thats cool but do more and I would always be like what??? So shes the one that really pushed me to my limits when it came to these designs.
I'll admit the first time around with my Kickstarter launch I was so caught up in the moment of thinking omg I'm going to make my own deck of cards!!!!! That thought was in my head that I just rushed everything. It was bad timing, the designs weren't complete, no custom court cards etc etc. So this time around yes that thought is still in the back of my mind of creating my own deck of cards, but I took the time to jam pack as much detail as possible.
As for the 3d comment, that made me so happy as well. What got me into Graphic Design to begin with was the fact that I always wanted to create my own deck of cards one day. My true passion for arts is 3d elements such as modeling and animation. That was my main focus during college. So again I sat back and thought how I can change the playing card market from my point of view. I never saw a deck based off 3d elements before. Most designs you see are entirely done with photoshop or illustrator. Only a few decks were created using 3d elements but not the entire design, maybe like 10%.
I was actually looking at the new Theory 11 Steampunk deck and on the bottom it said it was created using 12 million 3d polygons....now most people have no idea what that means and because of the number will be like : o that sounds amazing!!!.....the fact is...for that number to that design is really really sad and nothing to brag about whats so ever.
Let me break that down for you: In the Transformer movies, optimus prime was very well constructed and was very very detailed. It had 10,108 parts to the design. That 3d character alone for the movies only had 1.8 million polygons... so to brag about 12 million for a little design is very sad.
For my design, almost 95% of the designs you see were all modeled using 3d software. The rst were touched up in photoshop. So I did a cross breed for two of my passions in life.
I would love to hear everyones thoughts about the polygon statement I broke down.
Thank you again for those comments. I love this deck, theme, design, everything about it. Lets make this a reality for me as well as for you guys. This deck was intended for collectors, not so much magicians.
