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Sky Valley Casino & Resort (2 Viewers)

Trying something whacky with the sun petroglyph from the painted caves in the background. I kinda don't hate it.

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One more take on spacing out the letters, adding in some strokes and weight for adding in some definition and better viewing at small scale.

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Maybe make "Casino & Resort" the entire width of the standard? I don't know if you're going to see the whole petroglyph detail.

You've got a lot of graphic elements. Would you consider a different design on each face of the chip?
 
allforcharity said:
Maybe make "Casino & Resort" the entire width of the standard? I don't know if you're going to see the whole petroglyph detail.

You've got a lot of graphic elements. Would you consider a different design on each face of the chip?
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Yeah first thing I noticed at print size was the petroglyph being too small. The digital resolution is hard to see in the screencap, but the stroking around the font is perfectly legible. The "casino & resort" is clearly too small. I might lower the points of the V and Y and run that the length of the inside as well, but am playing with options.

I had thought about doing different designs on each chip - in fact it was suggested by a friend of mine early in the process. I was, however, really drawn to the condor and the sun symbols as the main sticking point for the "sky" and sun valley portions of the design. I'm gonna see if I can find a way to make it more visible at small scale, but if it doesn't work it doesn't work and I'll move on to the next idea.

I am VERY happy with the chips and colors at size, and am really getting excited to see a printed version of the Bud Jones V7 style edgespots and face printing. I am hesitant on adding the lines and dotting present on the BJ V7s, as I always thought they had a tendency to drown out the base colors too much. But I am happy with the colors as they've been in mind for many years, and this is perfect opportunity to bring them to life.
 
Redid the condor petroglyph logo to be more simplified at small scale. Also broke down and modified the text to be more full.

A little less of the frills, but by far the most legible it’s been at print scale.

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allforcharity said:
Looks pretty good!
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Thanks! I think this might be the last edit I do before contacting Sun-Fly. I drive myself nuts with the ticky tacky stuff. I think if it's legible and can also hold up to printing at 6'ish inches then I should be good.

When you said a different design on each face, were you talking about the different offerings that BJ offers on the V7s? Diamond, double diamond, dots, triangle, double triangle, etc?
 
72o said:
Looks great man...latest labels and chips.
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If you say it, then I have to be happy with it. Considering you own one of the top 3 custom sets on the site, I might as well just send it off now if you hit it with a Love emoji :cool
 
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Venturalvn said:
When you said a different design on each face, were you talking about the different offerings that BJ offers on the V7s? Diamond, double diamond, dots, triangle, double triangle, etc?
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No, I meant a single design for Side A of each chip, and a different single design for Side B of each chip.
 
Venturalvn said:
If you say it, then I have to be happy with it. Considering you own one of the top 3 custom sets on the site, I might as well just send it off now if you hit it with a Love emoji :cool
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I appreciate that comment very much (I don’t believe it but I appreciate it) but don’t sell yourself short. The Beach chips are beautiful and very well done! You obviously know what you’re doing. :tup:

I honestly love that last iteration a lot and the chip colors are great. Minor comment if I may:
-maybe move the background image down slightly so you can see a little more sky under the name? It may help the mountains read a little better so you can tell that there are 2 mountains easier.

Excuse my finger markup but something like this:

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Updated version per @72o suggestion. Zoomed out the mountains to give more depth.

Also started a convo with Sun-Fly today to figure out costs, shipping, artwork, etc...

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72o said:
You've done a great job with this design, man! Honestly love it.
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Last decision I have for myself is whether or not to do the dots/dashes that are a trademark of the BJs. I often feel like they take up too much space on the rolling edge, so the chip base colors take a back seat. Since I'm doing a "faux" V7, I was leaning towards leaving them off so more of the base colors shines through.

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Hmm that's a tough decision as I feel like in this case, you still see enough of the base colors on the rolling edge to not be a bother. If I had to chose right now, I think I would leave off the dots/dashes. Part of the allure of hybrids (or any ceramic chip) is that you can do a lot with the rolling edge if so desired. It's not like the latest issues with the Matsui GB chips where you totally lose the base chip color.

Sorry for not helping...just need to think about it a bit. :bag: :)
 
Geremie said:
Edge spots FTW!! I might be super biased though :whistle: :whistling:
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72o said:
Hmm that's a tough decision as I feel like in this case, you still see enough of the base colors on the rolling edge to not be a bother. If I had to chose right now, I think I would leave off the dots/dashes. Part of the allure of hybrids (or any ceramic chip) is that you can do a lot with the rolling edge if so desired. It's not like the latest issues with the Matsui GB chips where you totally lose the base chip color.

Sorry for not helping...just need to think about it a bit. :bag: :)
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I was dead set on leaving the dots off but am having a change of heart seeing both rolling edges next to each other. I think the colorways alleviate a lot of the concerns I would normally have about muddy BJ V7 clarity issues...
 
Why not take your petroglyph, divide it into 4 parts top to bottom, and place them in sequence at the cardinal points of the rolling edge? Then if you make a stack, you can see the large petroglyph pattern repeated every 4 chips!
 
Dots will definitely work well, but those lines in the red chip may be a bit too thick. Thinking them out will make the red pop a bit more and still have the edge marking.
 
Just heard back from Susie at Sun-Fly about pricing and freight. I thinned out the stripes on the rolling edge of the $5, and I'm moving forward with the BJ V7 style dots. I might tweak the red in the logo a little bit, but this time next week I plan to have my order in progress for HB001 .50-$5, and the oversized HB005 $25!
 
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Just heard back from Susie at Sun-Fly about pricing and freight. I thinned out the stripes on the rolling edge of the $5, and I'm moving forward with the BJ V7 style dots. I might tweak the red in the logo a little bit, but this time next week I plan to have my order in progress for HB001 .50-$5, and the oversized HB005 $25!
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Good call. Not that it matters, but I've come around to the idea of the busier design on the rolling edge (as long as it's not text). The only chip that may "lose" its base color in stacks would maybe be the frac. But the only solution I guess would be to have less purple edgespots. You could maybe try only having 3 purple spots but making them slightly larger and see how that works.

Or just leave it as is because it really won't be a problem either way.
 

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