What do you guys think about me making one of the nines (or if I'm feeling really ambitious, a king) 3D, Like the old movies with the Red and Blue 3d lenses, so when you where the glasses, it will actually look 3d?
Very cool idea. Done well, a simple blue/red 3-D image can be seen reasonably well with the naked eye. If you want to use 3-D, really USE it - make different parts of the card at different depths to each other! I'm already envisioning Kings wielding weapons at you - the most over-used 3-D effect, but that's simply because it has IMPACT!
If we're doing 3-D, I can't imagine packing a 3-D set of glasses is practical - maybe we could print somewhere a link to a reliable supplier of 3-D glasses of ye olde red/blue type... They tend to be pretty cheap.
I wonder... USPC makes a SpongeBob deck that's 3-D and the glasses are in the box... Could we...?
I am sry Derek and Don but I don't understand what you mean!
Really? I think this is what Don means, If so, I fully agree.
When you fan a deck face up you see all the Numbers\Letters and suit pips right? these should be uniform, the same typeface for the Letters\Numbers. The same design for the Spades. Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds.
Everthing inside the Card can be as random as you like but the index pips (what's visible in a face up fan) should be uniform so that the deck can be functional.
Yes - pip uniformity is important. The rest is up for grabs. ALL good art decks of any kind use a uniform pip style of some sort. Without it, you have 54 mini-artworks, not really a usable deck.
I was thinking of Loldudex2. I might have said the wrong name. I know he designed the Diamond and I was referring to him designed the rest of the suits possibly? Or having each one done uniquely by a different artist.
If you're talking about that diamond pip I made, I wasn't planning on that being an ace. I feel we already have a great ace of diamonds. I made that pop for the nine of Diamonds.
Besides, all of the Ace jobs are already taken up.
Loldudex2 - I was suggesting you design the pips for the INDICES, not the aces. Your diamond pip looked awesome, and if you could make the other three suits in a matching style, I think they'd look great. Even better if you could design 0-9 and A, J, Q, and K to complete the indices in a matching style.
Here's a random idea. I always thought this would be a decent start or base for a back or maybe an 8 of Diamonds. Not anywhere close to being an actual design just an idea I thought was cool and figured since I can't draw anything beyond a straight line, it might help spark someone else who is more creative.
We already have someone working on the card back who is coming up with good designs.
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