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Zombie Poker Club, World Edition (1 Viewer)

12thMan said:
They could take a cruise out of Seattle up to Alaska and kill two birds with one stone. :D


@Poker Zombie , this has probably been asked many times before so sorry, but you do do all your own art, right? So fucking impressive. Seriously, I have zero artistic skills and your set looks professional, it blows me away how many different things you have done with your characters. Much respect.

I was also going to ask whether it was an Indy car or an F1 car but I'm assuming since it's a world tour set it's going to be an F1 since Indy cars are raced primarily in America. Love that one though, probably my favorite so far.
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The actual Zombies are the work of Brian Snoddy. Liz (Mrs Zombie) acquired all the original artwork for the boardgame "Give me the Brain" while she was working for (and continues to work for) the company that produces it - Cheapass Games. It was while demoing this game that I met her, hence the Zombie Poker Club.

We alter the artwork through photoshop. Coloring, adding and subtracting, etc. The F1 car is actually from the 1986 Monaco GP promotional poster.

As far as artistic talent goes - I'm Vanilla Ice. All samples, cleverly combined.

Since Liz grew up in Anchorage, and has family in Vancouver, a NW tour is entirely possible someday.
 
Poker Zombie said:
The actual Zombies are the work of Brian Snoddy. Liz (Mrs Zombie) acquired all the original artwork for the boardgame "Give me the Brain" while she was working for (and continues to work for) the company that produces it - Cheapass Games. It was while demoing this game that I met her, hence the Zombie Poker Club.

We alter the artwork through photoshop. Coloring, adding and subtracting, etc. The F1 car is actually from the 1986 Monaco GP promotional poster.

As far as artistic talent goes - I'm Vanilla Ice. All samples, cleverly combined.

Since Liz grew up in Anchorage, and has family in Vancouver, a NW tour is entirely possible someday.
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That makes sense, you just have so many and are constantly putting up new ones so I figured you were drawing them. FWIW I think your skills with photoshop are impressive then, they are all very well done and I never would have thought they were combined images. Appreciate the story as well, I've never heard why you both started with the zombies, very cool! In my mind your entire set would be Hall of Fame worthy because of a lot of reasons but hearing the story makes me feel that way even more.
 
A check of chip counts confirms that I can swap the Blue 1000 and the White 5000, getting the color progression as @jbutler suggested. I found a few outside-the-US casinos that used a white 5000, but none that used a blue 5000, and this bothers me a bit - but not to an extreme. I thought I would post the color progressions here (with little plaques added for the full colors progression in a single view).

I am especially interested in the inputs from our friends outside the United States: @Toby @Puggy @jemfernandez @Phantom @stocky @CdnBeerLover @Ghoti and others!
 
Color Progression RWBlBk.jpg

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The card casino I normally play at here--a chain, which is in a lot of the big cities in Austria--uses blue 5ks.
 
Poker Zombie said:
A check of chip counts confirms that I can swap the Blue 1000 and the White 5000, getting the color progression as @jbutler suggested. I found a few outside-the-US casinos that used a white 5000, but none that used a blue 5000, and this bothers me a bit - but not to an extreme. I thought I would post the color progressions here (with little plaques added for the full colors progression in a single view).

I am especially interested in the inputs from our friends outside the United States: @Toby @Puggy @jemfernandez @Phantom @stocky @CdnBeerLover @Ghoti and others!
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What input is that? Casinos?
 
Poker Zombie said:
A check of chip counts confirms that I can swap the Blue 1000 and the White 5000, getting the color progression as @jbutler suggested. I found a few outside-the-US casinos that used a white 5000, but none that used a blue 5000, and this bothers me a bit - but not to an extreme. I thought I would post the color progressions here (with little plaques added for the full colors progression in a single view).

I am especially interested in the inputs from our friends outside the United States: @Toby @Puggy @jemfernandez @Phantom @stocky @CdnBeerLover @Ghoti and others!
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We only have one casino in Finland so far. Another one is coming to my home city soon. Tourney chips in Grand Casino Helsinki goes: Green T25, black T100, lavender T500, red T1000 and yellow T5000.
 
Poker Zombie said:
.... The F1 car is actually from the 1986 Monaco GP promotional poster....
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Excellent choice of car, the McLaren, but you ought to photoshop it to #1, rather than #2 -- Prost, rather than Rosberg. Especially since he tripled at that race -- qualified first, won the race, and had fastest lap. Not to mention winning the WDC that year...

(...and being my second favorite driver ever, behind Jimmy Clark, and ahead of Jackie Stewart...)
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Unfortunately, I'm just a home game player. Can't say I've been in our local casino yet.

Edit: one of the locals did go to a tournament there recently, and sent me the following

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I'm trying to get a picture of some high denoms chips. The ones I know and have seen of in Malaysia are pretty standard chips and jetons, black $100s and purple $500s and I found a yellow 5000 on the web.

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I made a recent trip to a casino in Manila and my friend made a quick buck which has some high denoms and we took a pic. Let me try and get a hold of that pic.
 
pltrgyst said:
Excellent choice of car, the McLaren, but you ought to photoshop it to #1, rather than #2 -- Prost, rather than Rosberg. Especially since he tripled at that race -- qualified first, won the race, and had fastest lap. Not to mention winning the WDC that year...

(...and being my second favorite driver ever, behind Jimmy Clark, and ahead of Jackie Stewart...)
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Larry, Larry, Larry... No Senna?!?!?!? Although you being a Prost fan kinda justifies Ayrton's absence from your list ;)

Senna was the king of Monaco, ever since his historic 84' Monaco GP with Toleman... That race was cut short when Senna was driving 4 secs a lap faster than Prost in wet conditions... Rumors at that time pointed to a conspiracy to steal the win from Senna giving it to the French driver... That was the beginning of one of the greatest rivalry in F1 history... I'm sure you remember...

Of the Brazilian drivers, I was always on the Piquet camp but can't deny Senna as the greatest F1 driver I've ever seen racing... Didn't have the chance to see Fangio or Clark racing unfortunately...
 
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You guessed it -- I'm anything but a Senna fan. Not a Monaco fan either, for that matter. Much more a Spa/Nurburgring/Zandvoort/Silverstone kind of guy.

I made all the F1 races but South Africa in 67 and 68. Got my start in club racing at Hockenheim back then, too. Saddest part is that I was in the stands at Hockenheim the day Clark died. Still have a shard of the car here somewhere... :(
 
I'm just about done with the label art now. I'll keep the full set images on a rotating wallpaper and make the kind of minor adjustments that would probably be irrelevant at poker chip size, but these are the final 5 sets. I am really happy with the French 5000 and Canadian 1000 as @jbutler suggested. I don't know how I overlooked that - pretty focused on an idea rather than progression. Since @Ghoti found a casino in Austria that used blue 5000s, It made the switch a home run. Thank to both of you.

Looking at @RowdyRawhide 's ideas, I removed the gradient from behind the 1M plaque, but the car felt "slower". The fog gives a "dust pulled off the road" look, like the shot is being taken from the rear facing camera of the lead car (Prost perhaps?). I did lighten it on a few plaques, and will likely use the lighter dust effect on whatever font style I go with.

Last chance for suggestions, before I contact MSK for the plaques and @Gear for the labels.

I also switched the brain the zombie was holding to an apple pie. The results of recent American elections make me think a brain is not very indicative of this country. Obesity rates and apple pie however...

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I also forgot to add...

In this latest iteration, I swiped a page out of @Phantom 's and @detroitdad 's playbook. They used an ellipsis as the delimiter in their Casino Royale set, which I thought was brilliant. Now, whether you use a comma or a period in your local usage, the ellipsis work as both, without alienating anyone - it always looks weird when you read foreign text that uses what appears to be a decimal instead of a proper comma, and I assume it looks equally as off when viewed from the other's perspective.
 
2 as well.

And one more time, I am blown away with your skills and think these look incredible; also the depth, consistency, and creativity of your set is something that I hope to even come near some day in my future customs world. You and your wife should definitely be proud!
 
Way cool! 2 or 4--can't decide between the 2. And that zombie in the f1 car is fucking awesome.
 
To clarify my preferences are 2 > 4 > 3 >>> 8 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 9.
 

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