Motobushido! Bicycle® Playing Cards (KS)

[Rob Wright]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/motobushiman/motobushido-bicycle-playing-cards?ref=users

Motorcycle-riding Samurai theme deck based on RPG from same creator- Nathanael Cole, 2nd project
$13,000 goal, USPC printing
No pictures of finished cards, but some artwork.
The first picture below is the KS search pic.
Nothing about this picture says "Hay come look. this is a new set of playing cards" to me.

[Don Boyer]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/motobushiman/motobushido-bicycle-playing-cards?ref=users

Motorcycle-riding Samurai theme deck based on RPG from same creator- Nathanael Cole, 2nd project
$13,000 goal, USPC printing
No pictures of finished cards, but some artwork.
The first picture below is the KS search pic.
Nothing about this picture says "Hay come look. this is a new set of playing cards" to me.

The art looks very good - but art and design are two different things.  Let's see what they actually do with the art.

[Soliloquy]

Though motorcycles don't interest me personally, I have to give them points for originality.  And I can't remember the artist's name anymore, but there was someone who painted modern stuff in the ancient Japanese style (such as a cheeseburger next to a Japanese lantern)... the artwork reminds me very much of him.

[Alex Willis]

It's hard to imagine that he's raised over $2K without even showing a card.  The sketch drawings on the project don't seem to match some of the artwork.  My guess is that he is designing as he goes?? 

[Don Boyer]

It's hard to imagine that he's raised over $2K without even showing a card.  The sketch drawings on the project don't seem to match some of the artwork.  My guess is that he is designing as he goes??

Unfortunately, I don't find it hard to imagine - I've seen it too many times.  Some people just go on a gut level with a project - they see the art, say "whoa" in their heads and click to back it.  The cards could be ugly as sin after a street fight, but they back it anyway, with the surprise coming at the end, at which point it's either "Wow, these are so cool," or "What the hell is this?  This isn't what I backed!"