Looking for a little design help. Animal silhouette chips.
 

I'm thinking that at some point in the first quarter of next year, I'm gonna wanna get a set of personalized chips. I just really like the idea, and I'll hopefully have some money to burn.

I thought I'd start by ordering 5 different chips (I haven't even decided on denominations, maybe 1 5 10 25 100), and I've mocked up the first couple of what I hope is some sort of nice looking theme: animal silhouettes. I haven't contacted any chipmakers on this cause I really don't know what I'm doing, and I'd like to nail down the look I want and then match them to what some company can do.

Here would be the one dollar chip:
http://www.stompandcrush.com/images/...shmockup01.jpg

And the five dollar one:

http://www.stompandcrush.com/images/...ckmockup01.jpg

The thing is, I've run into pretty much the limits of my artistic ability to trace and use photoshop filters, and I was hoping someone might be willing to help me mock up 3 others along these lines. (.psd files available if you want'em)

As you can see, the idea is a strong background color, with a related ring color, then a lifelike silhouette of an animal, and a big old demonination.

My idea for the other three chips is a red, a green and blue, but I'm kind of stumped on animals (though a red frog chip would make me happy), poses for said animals, denominations and so forth, so I thought I'd just post here and see if anyone wanted to lend a design hand, or offer any criticism about what I've mocked up so far.

I can't really offer money for this, but you'd have my eternal gratitude.

If you've got nothing to add, you could just tell me:

Do you think the theme is fun? Do you think the images would transfer well to a normal chip size.? And so on.

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just a suggestion.
for red i like a bull.
green an alligator
and blue something aquatic.
maybe the frog could go on the green, but the bull stands out in my mind for some reason.

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Reasonable idea - and if its what you want, then its what you want.

As far as the design goes, the two you posted look good, but I don't really care for the font you used for the denomination. Also, have you considered what kind of edge spots you'll want?

Based on what you've posted, the Chipco style of chip will probably work out best (as far as printing all the way to the edge).

As far as artistic help, I have none to offer.

-Ash

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Someone pmed me to suggest perhaps sharing chips as a kind of payment in kind for art help. And I'd be happy to do some of that, but I don't know when or if I'll be actually ordering these.

oh, and here's maybe a better way of comparing them. I'm not happy with the execution of the buffalo one but I like the idea, so...

http://www.stompandcrush.com/images/chips/chips.jpg

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How about a Fox for your red chip

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Maybe a trout on a brown chip for 500 dollars [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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http://www.cshsystems.com/ebay/animals.jpg

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I'm kind of stumped on animals

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That's a joke, right?

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I think if you're gonna do animals they should have something to tie them all together. Like animals from North America or Africa , possibly a rainforest. It will give the set a little...synergy? Just a suggestion.
Russ

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Drop the denominations to the bottom left-hand corner of the chip and move some of the images more to the center- at least for the buffalo, this should work really well.
Maybe for the whales, go to the bottom right instead?

Where you play, do they NORMALLY make red $5 chips in yellow, and green $25 chips in red, and blue/yellow $10 chips in green, and $500 purple chips as $1 chips? etc...

I'm a fan of keeping the colors similar to the casinos, so there is less confusion. But your color schemes look pretty good.

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Those are nothern CA (where our dearesr Bison resides) colors I believe.

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<snip> My idea for the other three chips is a red, a green and blue, but I'm kind of stumped on animals <snip>

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Here you go... irish theme The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers

from the song...
"There were green alligators and long necked geese,
Some humpty-back camels and some chimpanzees,
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born,
The loveliest of all was the Unicorn."

Just the first thing that popped in my head when I read this thread... next being the Chinese Calendar
http://www.chinapage.com/images/12animal2.gif

- Fins

Re: Looking for a little design help. Animal silhouette chips.
 

Those are nothern CA (where our dearesr Bison resides) colors I believe.

No the chip denoms have nothing to do with any casino. Really, if people can't read the numbers on the chip, I'm afraid they're out of luck.

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personally, I wouldn't do a 10 chip... I think you'd be better to just get more of others.

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Yeah, no 10 chips.

I like the duck A LOT. How about an elephant or deer/moose/elk (something with antlers)?

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the duck is my favorite too. I just wish I could figure out other animals that would look as recognizable and cute in that 2-tone setup.

Alright, I'll change 10 to something else.

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One word for the duck: AFLAC!

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I love the idea (and the duck especially looks great), but I don't like the numbers off to the side - the chips feel lopsided. Once you start using them, you'll learn the colors really quickly, so its not important that the numbers are easily readable. What if you centered the animal and put the number behind it in a larger font - either in a color that is just a shade darker than the background, or use an outlined font. The number would be kinda hard to read because the animal would block a lot of it, but as I said, you won't need to read the number very often.

just a thought

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Interesting. Obviously no one likes the numbers, but I hadn't thought of putting them behind the animals.

Thank god for photoshop.

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I actually REALLY like the numbers on the first set. Large and offset like that.

Also I think you need a good bengal tiger for one of them:
http://www.wildlifesurvival.com/benji11web.jpg

There is a really good poster with a bengal tiger running at the camera head on, but I couldnt find a link on the web for it.

Re: Looking for a little design help. Animal silhouette chips.
 

Here's a revised mockup, with some tentative ideas of animals.

http://www.stompandcrush.com/images/chips/chips2.jpg

The thing about the fish and the duck is that they're both identifiable as 2 color silhouttes, so did some thinking about animals with simple, interesting body forms and iconic colors. I think an overhead view of a bee with the nice striped tail-end (form and colors) and a jumping frog from either a top or side view (mainly form) would be identifiable and have some character.

I'm still not happy with the buffalo, but I'm not sure what kind of mammal would fit this kind of thinking. I think the tiger suggestion may be too complicated to convey, and, given how all these other animals are turning out to be tiny little buggers, a little unbalancing (which is another reason I'm getting unsatisfied with the bison).

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Well, you have a fish, insect, amphibian, and a bird (assuming you toss the buffalo), so you definately need the 100 to be a mammal, and something small. I'm thinking squirrel, bat, monkey, lemur, dog, mouse, or chipmunk.

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Shouldn't the duck be on the $2 chip? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Maybe you could do them in a style similar to these:
http://members.sigecom.net/unloaded/poco.jpg
Or
http://members.sigecom.net/unloaded/shark.gif
I really like the bare outline drawings. I couldn't do the artwork myself, but maybe you can or could have them done.

peace.
unloaded

Re: Looking for a little design help. Animal silhouette chips.
 

heheh... "I am a bee"... classic.

I really like your theme idea and mockups. One suggestion I would make is to make the $1 blue and the $100 that dark purple color, i.e. switched. I would also darken the purple up some. I noticed you reassigned your colors on the 5 and 25 to coincide with "vegas colors" and the $1 are traditionaly white or blue with $100 traditionaly black.

The demoninations might be very cool looking in the edge color instead of white, dunno.

edit: oh yeah... if you didn't want a denom on the face of the chip screwing with your artwork you can print on the edge of chipco chips.

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The bison is my favorite chip of the group so far! move the 100 over to the left a bit and you have a winner IMHO.

Also, any thoughts on a somewhat more detailed background? The solid color makes it seem a little too simple to me. That may be what you're going for.