Looking for a little design help. Animal silhouette chips.

[bisonbison]

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:


And the five dollar one:



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.

[Ratman138]

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.

[casinogosain]

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

[bisonbison]

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...

[KungFuSandwich]

How about a Fox for your red chip

[KungFuSandwich]

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

[JimRivett]

[Evan]

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I'm kind of stumped on animals

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That's a joke, right?

[rusellmj]

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

[Lottery Larry]

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.