Edweird Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) So back in april my +5 Wife of Awesome pitched making me a snazzy custom fate deck for my new hobby of choice. After some time and delays to find playing card stock and waiting for the supplier to come back from vacation; we have printed our first run of my deck. I say first run because I intend to prize pool and gift another deck to our local henchman and store owner. Also the only bit of photoshop I did missaligned the card backs to the fronts, a problem my wife has already fixed for the next run... Enuf jibberjabber, on to the Pics! Edited July 9, 2011 by Edweird Moar Pix! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stern Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Those are awesome! I want a set! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edweird Posted July 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 The card stock is the same air cushion stock you see on casino / bicycle cards, super nice stuff to work with. Also I am experimenting with a way to smooth the edge to get rid of any residual cutter flashing... anywho enjoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinncent Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Wow! I want a set too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edweird Posted July 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 (edited) Heres the hangups about selling copys... first we never intended to do so. 1) we dont have premission from the fine people at wyrd (although I have heard there is a precedent), but if we did sell it some of the profit would go to cover prize support for our league. 2) we dont have rights to the images, since this is/was not intended for profit/sale... so if this is something (you want/we can sell/we are willing to sell) either we need to get the photo rights(hardmode) or replace the images with similar images or new art. My wife is a photographer and very picky about image rights so this is non contestable, and no amount of couch sleeping is worth selling a few decks. Edited July 9, 2011 by Edweird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dire Hoarcat Snuggler Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 Eric and Nathan might be busy getting ready for GenCon, but I'm sure they might have something to say that would help us out here ... them or some other high-ranking Wyrd-o... ~J~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvatarForm Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 They look nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xango Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Congratulations to your wife, great design i love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondog Posted July 10, 2011 Report Share Posted July 10, 2011 Looks ace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 I'd be very interested in acquiring the PSDs or AI (or whichever) files were used to design the cards! I am intending to design some custom cards myself. Also, can you reveal where you got them printed and how much they ended up costing you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiggyQubert Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 Verry nice, out of curisoity (and because I'm looking to print a custom set of cards) where did you have them printed / what did you use for card stock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 Verry nice, out of curisoity (and because I'm looking to print a custom set of cards) where did you have them printed / what did you use for card stock? Yes, please give as many details as you can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edweird Posted July 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 The PSD's were made for each card(once you build the general template each suit falls into place) and then compiled to make them fit the card stock. To host all 62 PSD's is not something I am interested in doing at this point and honestly its better to design your own. Also I will remention that my wife is picky about using other peoples work and letting other people use her creative work(without expressed written premission from major league baseball and the commissioner) so I would rather not ask... also remember I dont want to sleep on the couch during the day(I work graveyard shift normally) As for the card stock I did quite a bit of research on the many types of material that playing cards are made of... from plastic coated paper, 100% plastic, weird laminated hybrids, to the nifty air cushion paper that bicycle uses, there is lots to choose from but all of them are a PITA to find. I finally found air cushion playing card cardboard at an online store called lybrary.com(please don't completely run him out... I have a few more decks promised). The pages are only available in A4, its a different format than we are used to here in the states... so be sure to plan around that. each deck requires 6 pages(54 card deck @ 9 cards a sheet also double sided = 12 color prints) which the cost of the printing is largely dependant on both the amount of card stock you buy, and your access to or willingness to go to a printshop ie Kinkos to have them done. I went to kinko's... I think I ended up spending $8 usd on printing, with one wasted sheet due to an error. They gave me some questionable stares about if the card stock can be printed with a laser jet but it worked out great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Posted July 11, 2011 Report Share Posted July 11, 2011 Thanks for all the info. Perhaps you could supply some of the high resolution artwork or logos you used in the creation of the cards, and perhaps a template for printing onto the card stock you mention. I'd still love to get the PSDs themselves. I'd be willing to provide access to my personal FTP to make transferring the files to me a snap. Pretty please with a cherry on top? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 *bump!* I'd love to get high resolution images of the logos, if you have them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 *bump!* I'd love to get high resolution images of the logos, if you have them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albanyvarai Posted August 4, 2011 Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 How do I get some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xmortis Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 I love that the gears increase in size to show damage steps. Amazing work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonelyPath Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Your wife is indeed Awesomesauce for creating those for you. She got them done a lot faster than the tarot deck I made for myself too (though I did go through alot of sketching, alternate card lists and had to make it fully customizable... that wasn't easy). Anyway, I'm going off track. Awesome fate Deck, I'm very jealous! makes me want to make my own Fate Deck now, I should have some left over blank tarot decks somewhere, now if only I could still hold a pen or pencil to draw it all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edweird Posted August 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2011 sorry I got busy and have not been watching this... thanks all for the complements I have passed them on to the better half. As for how can you get a copy... that is an unanswered bit of wondering that I mentioned in the first few replys on page 1. I hope that the powers that be could chime in but until then I am going to keep rocking my present at out local league Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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