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Card Border Redesign Competition (Dragoon) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266359#msg266359
« on: February 07, 2011, 03:20:13 pm »
This is for the Card Border Redesign Competition.  My main design goal was to emphasize the card art.  There were a couple reasons.  First, we got some really awesome art and I thought we should try to showcase it.  And second, after about a month of playing, the only thing you look at when a card is played is the art.  You already know everything else pretty much.  So I tried to take the most important part of a card and emphasize it.

To that end I got rid of all the extraneous borders.  The top bar is semi-transparent to let more art through.  It's black for unupped cards and white for upped cards.  This is another quick and more obvious visual cue that the card is upped besides the name change and the title text color change in the current cards.

I think the text description area is a tad bigger than the current one.  A nice gentle gradient for the text area and the element's mark in the background helps tie all of an element's cards together.

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I changed the font from the sans serif font (Arial/Helvetica/Gills Sans or whatever it is) to Fontin.  It's a good font for small sizes and it is not too drastic of a change since it's very sans serif-y.  But I think it gives a bit more personality.

   

   
Here's (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20788.msg284460#msg284460) the link to my competition entry.

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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266367#msg266367
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2011, 03:38:07 pm »
Shouldn't you make the upped version of one of the unupped cards? (for example, Rustler and Leaf Dragon, then another unupped card from other element)

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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266372#msg266372
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2011, 03:48:47 pm »
4 :death::  You must show at least one Element with its upgraded
       form.  (3 images total: 2 unupgraded, 1 upgraded from the
       element of one of those two)
It just says from the element of one of the unupgraded cards.

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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266374#msg266374
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2011, 03:50:51 pm »
True, my bad  :-[

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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition (Dragoon) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266468#msg266468
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2011, 07:32:38 pm »
Updated my design with rounded corners!  Everyone knows sharp corners on cards always poke you when you play with them plus they inevitably get bent up.  Rounded corners are much better.   :)

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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition (Dragoon) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266473#msg266473
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2011, 07:51:55 pm »
Wow. Nice.

I would personally prefer if the atk|hp were the same size as the permanent symbol.
Also it would be nice if the art credit were a little easier to read at normal game size.

You are right rounded corners are better.
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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition (Dragoon) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266543#msg266543
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2011, 09:26:38 pm »
The reason the permanent symbol is bigger is because I had to scale the image bigger to fit the space.  If I had an image of the symbol, I could make it smaller.  But now that you mention it, I don't see why the atk|hp couldn't be bigger.  In fact, it's an important enough info that it should probably be a tad bigger.

I added a thin outline to the credit text for legibility.  Bumped the size by .5 too.

I also finally found a font I like.


And now, I have officially spent too much time on this little project that probably won't be seen again after a couple weeks.

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Section One - Recovery 0AIDE25 https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266545#msg266545
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Re: Card Border Redesign Competition (Dragoon) https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=20899.msg266549#msg266549
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2011, 09:37:07 pm »
In my opinion I don't see the "need" for such a change in the cards.
it's totally not necessary to play Elements in the first place, we still do.

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