Feedback on a VERY early mock up, please? (1 Viewer)

[quebert]

I think I know the answer to this, but since I've never made a custom chip maybe I'm wrong. I know from following some peoples custom projects that on a 39mm chip you can't fit a ton of detail. Before I waste weeks designing chips I'm hoping a few people can give some feedback here. My thinking is what I'm trying to do here won't translate well to actual chips with the level of detail I'm shooting for. I didn't draw this, it's an image I found online. My idea was a Caddy Shack set since I love the movie. And I found some Caddy Shack t-shirts and borrowed the images. This is a mock up of the $5 without the edge spot. I test printed it out on my B&W laser, and it looks pretty decent, I can make out the text and Bill looks like bill, but a bit small for sure. What I'm wondering is how different it would look printed out on actual chips.

Anyone who's designed chips and can chime in I'm all ears, once I assistance for 1 chip I can plow thru the others no problem.

Now my plan's a full set of chips + 2 plaques + a dealer and few other buttons. If anyone's interested in Caddy Shack or just collecting sample sets. I hope to have the moke up's done by end of May and the actual chips in production by July.

help? thanks

 

[stocky]

Are these ceramics yeah?

Looking good. I would still enlarge the ribbons and text though. You may need to enlarge the centre image also in case it ends up looking to small compared to the ribbons.

 

[quebert]

Yes, 39mm ceramics, I was really pondering using 47mm for more detail, but I'm thinking larger chips for the dealer + all in buttons. I've never played with 47mm chips so I'm not sure how I'd like them for regular chips. That's not to say I'm against them, I'm going to order a 47mm sample set to see how I like them. And DOH I uploaded the wrong image, this is the one I meant to post.

I can't make anything bigger really, so if this isn't going to look good on a 39mm chip, I'll have to redesign or go bigger chips.

 

[stocky]

Looking good. I think the only thing you may have an issue with is the beaver.

 

[Jambine]

.....I can't make anything bigger really, so if this isn't going to look good on a 39mm chip, I'll have to redesign or go bigger chips...

If its what you want, don't give up on it yet. You started with an image from a T-Shirt and shrank it down to 39mm. I'd say you got pretty close on the first shot. I agree with @stocky above. Some minor tweeks and you're probably real close to done

 

[stocky]

I had added to my post. Don't know where the rest went.

You could make the chips two different sides and put the beaver in the reverse. That way it's still included.

 

[quebert]

Hummm lol it's not a beaver, it's a gopher but I know what you meant It is really small and would probably come out looking like nothing but a blob. I should definitely make it a lot
bigger. I'm going to shoot an email to Oldwestpoker, but it looks like I can place an order for just 25 custom chips? If that's the case I can get a sample chip set up and really know what I'm working with.

I know the gopher's one of the main characters of the movie, and gopher = golf course. But for poker maybe I should change it to a donkey. I'm also having a custom table made around the country club from the movie (Bushwood) and am thinking instead of Bushwood Country Club make it the same logo but call it Bushwood Poker Club.

 

[stocky]

Gopher. Damn my bad

Sal might be able to do a small run of prototypes also, so when you finished all the chips you can get a feel for how they all look together.

 

[quebert]

I had added to my post. Don't know where the rest went.

You could make the chips two different sides and put the beaver in the reverse. That way it's still included.

Two different sides YES!!!! Don't know why I didn't think of that. I could have 1 that I use for all the $ chips. Was thinking to make it look the same as the front just with a gopher in the middle but I didn't like how it turned out. So I googled found this image and with a bit of tinkering, I already sorta like it. Definitely needs some work, but after just 30 minutes of working on them. I think there's potential here. And if anyone has a suggestion besides OWP.com for where to get them printed I'm all ears. I do plan to get a medium cash set (.25, $1, $5 and $10's) and a full tourney one too. My main thing is I want somewhere that offers face & edge alignment. Question about the backside, just an opinion thing but should they have denominations or not? And I know the gopher alert & text on the ball are way too small, will be x-ing those if I go with this for the back.

 

[stocky]

No need for denom on both sides at all.

 

[200 Motels]

Two different sides YES!!!! Don't know why I didn't think of that. I could have 1 that I use for all the $ chips. Was thinking to make it look the same as the front just with a gopher in the middle but I didn't like how it turned out. So I googled found this image and with a bit of tinkering, I already sorta like it. Definitely needs some work, but after just 30 minutes of working on them. I think there's potential here. And if anyone has a suggestion besides OWP.com for where to get them printed I'm all ears. I do plan to get a medium cash set (.25, $1, $5 and $10's) and a full tourney one too. My main thing is I want somewhere that offers face & edge alignment. Question about the backside, just an opinion thing but should they have denominations or not? And I know the gopher alert & text on the ball are way too small, will be x-ing those if I go with this for the back.

This would look great on a chip but if it's random stuff you pull off Google, it's likely someone owns this artwork resulting it a lowered likelihood a chip manufacturer would put it on a chip for you.

A Bushwood country club themed chip set would be great. I'm sure you could get an original design created somewhere.

 

[HanShot1st]

"Hey everybody, we're all gonna get...."
played?

Keep working on it, this has a LOT of potential to be a really fun set.

 

[quebert]

This would look great on a chip but if it's random stuff you pull off Google, it's likely someone owns this artwork resulting it a lowered likelihood a chip manufacturer would put it on a chip for you.

A Bushwood country club themed chip set would be great. I'm sure you could get an original design created somewhere.

This I didn't think about honestly, I just emailed the artist asking if he'd be willing to let me pay him to use the images for a private home game set of chips. I have a friend who's a tattoo artist who could draw everything. But when I found these images on Google, I saw stuff that was already so close to what I would want. I'm definitely not trying to steal anyone's work here. If he emails me back saying I can use it and the $$$ he asks isn't crazy I'll go with it. If he's not interested, or wants too much $$$ I'll have my friend draw up a set.

"Hey everybody, we're all gonna get...."
played?

Keep working on it, this has a LOT of potential to be a really fun set.

Yes, I was all ready to just go with the Nevada Jack Skulls, but when I saw I could get fully customized chips for the same price I decided why not. My tattoo artist friend is going be starting on a Scarface set soon. I love Scarface and it would for sweet chips imho. But guns & killing & Cocaine's kind of heavy so I thought a complete 180 set would be nice, I came up with either Caddyshack or Fast Times At Ridgemont high. I love the 80's and those are 2 of my more favorite movies from that period.



This brings me to another question, since I have my friend drawing Scarface pics for my evil set, how will I prove to whoever I have make them that I own the rights to the drawings?

 

[lnlver]

I think the only thing you may have an issue with is the beaver.

"Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the Beaver last night?" - June Cleaver

 

[quebert]

Found an image of the country club logo and chopped it up a bit, thinking about this for a 60mm dealer button, thoughts? With the green so far I can't find a color I really like for the background so I have it as white for now.

 

[Blaster]

Yes, 39mm ceramics, I was really pondering using 47mm for more detail, but I'm thinking larger chips for the dealer + all in buttons. I've never played with 47mm chips so I'm not sure how I'd like them for regular chips. That's not to say I'm against them, I'm going to order a 47mm sample set to see how I like them. And DOH I uploaded the wrong image, this is the one I meant to post.


I can't make anything bigger really, so if this isn't going to look good on a 39mm chip, I'll have to redesign or go bigger chips.

You can always use 43 or 47mm for the chips & 60 to 80 mm for Buttons ...

 

[quebert]

Ok, so I emailed the guy who designed the shirt's with the images I want to use. He wrote back and said sure and asked what I thought a good price was. He said he'd prefer to send me the original files to work with. I'm not trying to make make something I'll wind up selling and I explained that to him. Anyone have an opinion at what I should tell him I'd be willing to pay? I've never paid for something like this, so I'm honestly lost at to number to throw at him. I literally don't even know what's close to fair, if I was having custom artwork drawn that's one thing, but this is as-is artwork. Or at least as-is to where he won't have to work with me at all to get the artwork touched up.

 

[quebert]

farted around for a few hours today and came up with these

where the white is around the chips I'll be putting a color and some sort of pattern and depending on how it looks, I'll have edge spots on the face edge that line up with the side edge spots.

These will be for a cash game, don't think I'll ever use $10 chips, definitely not $25's lol. IMHO less different chips is better in a cash game. But I really do want 5 chips. Maybe I'll make a cash set that's .25/1/5 and a bigger tourney one. Not 100% on the colors either, if anyone has suggestions I'm all ears. Will be making the gopher on the front bigger, and the back will be this with the color matching the front of the chip. And of course there are still a ton of small changes I need to make. But I think the overall look's pretty good so far.

 

[BGinGA]

Go with 25c vs .25 for the quarter. These will look great on 39mm chips; I think you will find that 46mm chips are too big (and thick) to play with comfortably. 43mm chips are okay.

 

[courage]

Purple 25c
White $1
Red $5
Green $25
Black $100

 

[links_slayer]

following with great interest

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

Ok, so I emailed the guy who designed the shirt's with the images I want to use. He wrote back and said sure and asked what I thought a good price was. He said he'd prefer to send me the original files to work with. I'm not trying to make make something I'll wind up selling and I explained that to him. Anyone have an opinion at what I should tell him I'd be willing to pay? I've never paid for something like this, so I'm honestly lost at to number to throw at him. I literally don't even know what's close to fair, if I was having custom artwork drawn that's one thing, but this is as-is artwork. Or at least as-is to where he won't have to work with me at all to get the artwork touched up.

@p5woody would probably be able to give you a good figure to re-use existing artwork in a new format.

 

[quebert]

@p5woody would probably be able to give you a good figure to re-use existing artwork in a new format.

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Thanks, I contacted him and he got right back to me. I don't want to use the existing artwork, I think my mock up's look pretty decent considering I right clicked and saved images off Google Images. But printed out I want some high res goodness to work with.

I'm still torn what to offer the artist to use his work. I don't want to insult him and have him but me on ignore or something lol. Paying him + paying p5woody + having the chips actually made. This is not going to be a cheap undertaking ugh. Things were so much easier when I use to play a weekly game with the 500 chip set that came in a case I got for $40 lol.

But seriously, if a few people could kick around what $$$ they think's fair, I want to email the guy back this week. is $25 an image too low? I know he probably put a lot of time into them. I was going to tell him $100 for all of them, but that's probably way off base.

 

[quebert]

Played with the designing some more today and came up with this, very rough still. Some feedback before I waste more time would be lovely.

where it says 25 the background's a golf ball, don't think it will look great, or maybe even be noticeable on the actual chips. I did really like the denom's in the circles on the Paymaster set someone on here had made. the circles all around the border are suppose to be golf balls too, sort of stole the look of the Nevada Jack Skulls, but imho the diamonds on those look so much better. Is this direction any good? I am going to get p5woody to do some work for sure. But, I'd like to get as far as I can on my own abilities before I hand it off. Which admittedly isn't much more lol.

If the direction's good, thoughts on a good color combo for the line around the edge and the edge color? is the line too thick? any suggestions for changes would be hugely appreciated. If the direction's not good, any suggestions are great.

 

[Mrs Poker Zombie]

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Thanks, I contacted him and he got right back to me. I don't want to use the existing artwork, I think my mock up's look pretty decent considering I right clicked and saved images off Google Images. But printed out I want some high res goodness to work with.

Reminder - that *is* using his existing artwork. Just because it is on Google doesn't mean it isn't his artwork.

I'm still torn what to offer the artist to use his work. I don't want to insult him and have him but me on ignore or something lol. Paying him + paying p5woody + having the chips actually made. This is not going to be a cheap undertaking ugh. Things were so much easier when I use to play a weekly game with the 500 chip set that came in a case I got for $40 lol.

I didn't mean that you needed to pay p5woody, I meant he could tell you what is a good price.

 

[quebert]

Ok, I'm still working on ceramic chips, but I have a new found interest in clays now. I'm thinking a set of each, one for cash one for tourneys. I farted around with the chip designer on here for an hour and came up 2 different mock ups. I don't have denominations for the chips figured out. Any feedback on the weird spots and colors I went with? I tried a hundred different combinations and didn't like much of any of them. Still going to keep at it, but help from the pros here would be lovely.

 

[jbutler]

Would never discourage multiple chip purchases, but I really, really, really, really, really hope you finish the Bushwood ceramic project. They are coming along very well.

 

[quebert]

Would never discourage multiple chip purchases, but I really, really, really, really, really hope you finish the Bushwood ceramic project. They are coming along very well.

Oh those are 100% getting made, I didn't even really like clays until I starting looking at some pr0n on here. I still like Ceramics better, and I'm not even 100% sold on getting clays. But I do have some interest in them. Ceramics you just have so much more room to work with image wise. If it ends up costing me $1,000 in design fees & $500 in samples I have to discard in order to get the chips looking right, I will finish that set. At this point I'm not spending another second on the clays until I have my ceramics finished. But I can get some feedback now so when that time comes I'll can jump right on it.

I'm glad there's some interest, I'm talking with p5woody so he can take what I have and knock it out the park. I'm definitely shooting to have ceramics in production within a month or 2 tops.

 

[Psypher1000]

Ok, I'm still working on ceramic chips, but I have a new found interest in clays now. I'm thinking a set of each, one for cash one for tourneys. I farted around with the chip designer on here for an hour and came up 2 different mock ups.

Best to start a separate thread for the clay mocks, mate. Otherwise you'll start to get commingled feedback and everyone will be confused as all hell.

 

[quebert]

Okay update with some asking for help, I want to upload a design Monday and have 25 chips printed up. This design's far far from the final chip, but I want to get a basic idea of how they will look. This is what I have at the moment.

I plan to place the order Monday so I can get the ball rolling. I'm not dead set on anything I've done, I kinda want the edge spots to roll up onto the face, but I'm not sure. If anyone gives me suggestions I'll make the changes and post the image. I like what I've done, but I feel like something's missing and I really don't know if I like the golf balls circle around the lip. I'm ummm.... semi proficient in Photoshop, definitely not a graphic designer but I can tinker and figure shit out, sometimes at least lol. And one thing I do plan to do is either get rid of the gopher, or make it bigger I know at it's current size it won't print well at all. On the back I'm going to remove the golf ball at the top and replace it with a royal flush hand, but that might be too small to see. Also going to change country to say poker. As with the front, I'm open to suggestions.

I'll make an offer, any suggestions that end up on the final chips, I'll send you a complete sample set for free. I plan to have 5 cash chips, dealer, all in, Rabbit (Gopher lol) hunting & bounty buttons. and a plaque or 2. I'm not just looking for suggestions for the chips, I could use ideas for the buttons & plaques too.