Post mockups for fun/science? (11 Viewers)

[Jacks]

If I had more funds. Ode to some of the iconic leaded chips, and some of my personal favorites.

 

[ChipMonster]

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If I had more funds. Ode to some of the iconic leaded chips, and some of my personal favorites.

Too pretty not to make. Buy now cry later. What would you do for inlay?

 

[Jacks]

Too pretty not to make. Buy now cry later. What would you do for inlay?

Red denom, not busy, something old west themed.

 

[TX_Golf_N_Poker]

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If I had more funds. Ode to some of the iconic leaded chips, and some of my personal favorites.

I recognize that $5...

 

[ChipMonster]

Red denom, not busy, something old west themed.

I’m about to pull the trigger on something very similar. I have chips and spots set and just putting the finishing touches on the inlay design.

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Secondaries???

 

[krafticus]

Secondaries???


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I love the $1, $5, $100. Maybe Blurple $20. Something seems off with the $500 .. maybe the 1/8 spots... ??

and for the love of ^#(&, get rid of the green background !!!!! :-D

 

[RoadRash]

I didn't cruise through all 92 pages, but from the dozen or so that I made it through, it seems that there are no ceramics in this thread and clays are still the favorite. It's been a long time, but Chiptalk was also this way. Not much love for the edge-to-edge and rolling edge design space of the ceramics. Obviously I'm in the minority, but I was never a big fan of clays from a design perspective. I always liked to see what people do with a completely blank canvas. The clays always did sound nice though.

 

[allforcharity]

I didn't cruise through all 92 pages, but from the dozen or so that I made it through, it seems that there are no ceramics in this thread. Clays are still the favorite. It's been a long time, but Chiptalk was also this way. Not much love for the edge-to-edge and rolling edge design space of the ceramics. Obviously I'm in the minority, but I was never a big fan of clays from a design perspective. I always liked to see what people do with a completely blank canvas. They always did sound nice though.

There are plenty of mockups here that were made in ceramic, they just use the CPC clay design tool to do so. But 95% of designers are trying to mimic clay, which is really too bad, because ceramics have design strengths of their own.

 

[Shoukz]

There are plenty of mockups here that were made in ceramic, they just use the CPC clay design tool to do so. But 95% of designers are trying to mimic clay, which is really too bad, because ceramics have design strengths of their own.

many peoples (including myself) tend to prefer classic clay design and hi end plastic design (like matsui or B&G) and if ceramic offer more options on the design part, they won't consider them because those design don't fit with what they want.

facts :
- actual clay chips are (over) expensives
- options to get them are limited (not to say it seems there will be no more option for custom clay soon)
- novelty for novelty is not a good reason for many of us, we love classic clay poker chips design, no more no less.

 

[RoadRash]

I'm looking at Custom Chips purely from a design perspective and not as a Poker Chip Fan. I do like playing poker with the clays. I like the sound and feel of them over ceramics, but to me clays all look the same in regard to design. The inlay honestly adds nothing to the design in most cases - it's all in the color scheme. The chips would be the same to me if they just had their chosen color schemes with a blank center or had a generic denomination text on it.

I do understand the love for classic clays, but I just don't like them for customizing. They are just way too limited for customization in my opinion. Again, I do understand the love for clays and people's fascination with them and I am not bashing them at all. They just all look the same to me - limited base colors with limited edge spot colors and 'shapes'. There is actually a finite number of appealing combinations and edge spot 'shapes'. Granted, that number is very high, but that's all you can do with clays - mix and match. Ceramics allow for infinite design possibilities and that's why I prefer them for customization.

 

[RoadRash]

Is there a thread in the Customs or Mockups specifically for Ceramic Customs? Or is that frowned upon?

I'm not trying to put one above the other. Clays are clearly the more popular choice and that is evident in the number of pages in these threads. I'd just like to be able to find the custom ceramics a bit more easily because those are the chips I'm into.

I wish there was a bigger market for ceramics and more manufacturers to get them from, but that is not very likely to happen unless they become hugely popular. Sifting through 92 pages of clays to find the nine or ten ceramic designs isn't going to help showcase them in any way. I think they deserve their own stage at least for better recognition. Some of the most classic ceramic designs kind of get lost or ignored because everybody covets the clays.

For Custom Chips:
Clays are more expensive and harder to purchase as an individual or for a small poker group (and are limited to mix & match limits I mentioned above). Plus a lot of folks new to poker chips are easily deceived by the endless options of 'quality clay chips' available online. They think they're getting top-tier stuff, but they're just getting robbed. That doesn't happen with the ceramics because there is no general design standard for ceramics. They don't have a standard set of colors to choose from and a standard way to add edge spots. They're 100% custom every time.

Ceramics are much more affordable, customizable and easier to get in relatively small quantities/sets/re-orders. I just thing they deserve a little more light shed on them for the noobs in the poker chip world. The more popular they become, the cheaper they will become for those of us who like them. More vendors/manufacturers would pop up and competition brings lower pricing. With ABC owning every vendor in the States, we don't have a whole lot of domestic choices and they can charge whatever they want. ChipCo is unresponsive and basically catering only to casinos and corporations - ignoring the small custom runs that they used to offer. When Poker was a bigger deal back in the early 2000s, we had a lot of homegrown, custom ceramic options (ChipCo, Nevada Jacks, BR Pro, Palm Imports, etc) and the prices were way better. I'd like to see that again (along with more ceramic customs in these forum pages).

Not a rant! Just a passionate opinion - a fiery 2¢.

 

[Nex]

Well, pick one - sift through a huge thread to find a few needles in a haystack, or have a thread that will usually be buried in the forum list since people will only rarely post in it.

It is what it is - the "classic" clay look is just far more popular with the people here. Hell, they even do faux clay on ceramics en masse.

Design-wise, it simply gives people a solid, time-tested framework. A completely blank canvas can be far more intimidating than being given numerous but ultimately finite choices to pick from and then already having finished the carrying part of the chip design. Of course you can still click together absolutely hideous designs for a clay chip, but that really does require some special "skill". On the other hand, designing a ceramic chip well that is not classic clay-style is quite a challenge. Something I would absolutely not recommend to newbies who do not yet know what pitfalls to watch out for. There's also no shortage of brittle junk ceramic chips for newbies to waste their money on, so that's not an argument against clays.

For the time being, you could browse through the chip database. It only contains sets that actually were made, but there's a good number of entries and you do not have to skip over tons of clay chips if you use the chip search function. Filter by manufacturer one-by-one. The number of manufacturers in that list who make clays aren't that numerous, you can check out all the others.

 

[chipinla]

 

[RoadRash]

Well, pick one - sift through a huge thread to find a few needles in a haystack, or have a thread that will usually be buried in the forum list since people will only rarely post in it.

It is what it is - the "classic" clay look is just far more popular with the people here. Hell, they even do faux clay on ceramics en masse.

Design-wise, it simply gives people a solid, time-tested framework. A completely blank canvas can be far more intimidating than being given numerous but ultimately finite choices to pick from and then already having finished the carrying part of the chip design. Of course you can still click together absolutely hideous designs for a clay chip, but that really does require some special "skill". On the other hand, designing a ceramic chip well that is not classic clay-style is quite a challenge. Something I would absolutely not recommend to newbies who do not yet know what pitfalls to watch out for. There's also no shortage of brittle junk ceramic chips for newbies to waste their money on, so that's not an argument against clays.

For the time being, you could browse through the chip database. It only contains sets that actually were made, but there's a good number of entries and you do not have to skip over tons of clay chips if you use the chip search function. Filter by manufacturer one-by-one. The number of manufacturers in that list who make clays aren't that numerous, you can check out all the others.

I hear you, Nex. I'm no stranger to poker chips or surprised that Clays are the top choice. I've been around on Chiptalk since the early 2000s and know without a doubt that clays are far more popular and that it's not likely to change.

Your argument for the time-tested framework is well put and well received. I guess being in the graphics industry for so many years contributes heavily to my preference of the blank canvas and pure creative freedom. I see how that could be intimidating for a lot of people who just want a nice looking set of chips. The appeal of a pick-and-place 'DIY' design option for that makes total sense.

 

[SoupHQ]

Version 1.0
Azure Isle, Trinidad and Tobago

Feel free to drop some critique.

 

[chipinla]

Version 1.0
Azure Isle, Trinidad and Tobago

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Feel free to drop some critique.

Love it. I would move the dollar sign down a bit so it’s centered more like the ¢ on the quarter. I’d also be curious what the denom would look like red instead of white.

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Dollar top alignement looks good too imho.
Like both.
Very cool design !

 

[SoupHQ]

Love it. I would move the dollar sign down a bit so it’s centered more like the ¢ on the quarter. I’d also be curious what the denom would look like red instead of white.

I have to say .. i had the red denoms for a few days now and i really like them. Thanks.

 

[aaron2786]

Well with cpc getting ready to close up the doors, here is the (what will now never be) Vegas color follow up to Calypso - for science

 

[Huskerchipper]

Well with cpc getting ready to close up the doors, here is the (what will now never be) Vegas color follow up to Calypso - for science

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Well maybe someone will step in and continue the business. At least I hope because I have a cash set I would eventually like to have made. I have always been a big fan of your Calypso set and i love that Blurple chip!

 

[Kid_Eastwood]

Well with cpc getting ready to close up the doors, here is the (what will now never be) Vegas color follow up to Calypso - for science

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Nice looking set. I prefer with the blue $1.

Blue $1 and yellow $20 would be nice too for Vegas colors !

 

[daddylongleg6666]

Made this just for fun, any thoughts or critiques? I'm thinking of adding a Spanish casino name like Casino Roedora (Spanish for rodent)

 

[drdr]

Made this just for fun, any thoughts or critiques? I'm thinking of adding a Spanish casino name like Casino Roedora (Spanish for rodent)

My capybara-obsessed son says the $20 and $100 art needs switching... cos 60 kg rodent is king

 

[daddylongleg6666]

My capybara-obsessed son says the $20 and $100 art needs switching... cos 60 kg rodent is king

I agree with him on that the only thing stopping me is the size of the photos. The royal capybara wasn't in landscape so I couldnt put it on the plaque unless it was really zoomed in or stretched

My intentions were to go in order as far as size of the rodents so I may need to keep searching for a correct size capybara.

 

[drdr]

I agree with him on that the only thing stopping me is the size of the photos. The royal capybara wasn't in landscape so I couldnt put it on the plaque unless it was really zoomed in or stretched

My intentions were to go in order as far as size of the rodents so I may need to keep searching for a correct size capybara.

Yeah, I spotted that as an obstacle, too. Maybe find a photo of capybara and several young. But don't know how you'd convert to same pic style/aesthetic.

 

[Nex]

Well with cpc getting ready to close up the doors, here is the (what will now never be) Vegas color follow up to Calypso - for science

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I really like the color scheme of the 1/5/25 (5 > 1 > 25). The 100 and 500 could use some more iterations imo.

 

[PlaidDragon]

Given I need another cash set, I'm playing around with the Paulson editor. Might put these on some web mold hybrids:

In order: 25¢, $1, $5, $20, $100 with the inlays drawing general inspiration from the Rounders style.

Not by any means final.