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Champions Online Trading Cards

Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
edited October 2009 in Fan Base Alpha
Hello all. I recently created a trading card for my hero based on the superhero trading cards of the mid to late 90's, and thought I would share in the hopes of that others would post something similar on this thread. I have seen a few other people on the forums make something similar, but I haven't seen them collected all in one place.

Here is my Champions Online card of Kallisto. http://s623.photobucket.com/albums/tt314/chucknorrispunch/?action=view&current=kalistocard1.jpg

The card has his name (upper left corner), supergroup symbol (upper right corner), supergroup name and rank (below picture), and champion online stats (in text box).
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    That looks great!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    I've been doing very similar for my guild:

    http://www.scautura.com/2009/09/champions-online-collectible-cards/

    Unfortunately, this happened at a time when people were dropping off the face of the Earth (errrr, end of the 30 days when people stopped playing) so there aren't currently that many. I even made a 1680x1050 background for them:

    http://www.scautura.co.uk/bg/Background.png

    These are still WIP, as a perfectionist I never think things are finished.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Scautura those are really nice! I would love to know the template you used for those. I would be cool if there was a way to incorporate the stats of the heroes as well on the card.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    The template is custom created, but I've used graphics from the CO fansite kit (the Champions logo in the bottom left, and the power icons bottom right), and fonts that I bought (the fonts are Dave Gibbons Lower, and Blambot Pro FX, for the record - the other font that the game uses is BadaBoom FX which is free from Blambot), and it's all put together in Photoshop at twice the resolution of the end product.

    My original idea was to get something like Tragic - The Saddening (sorry, Magic - The Gathering - I still have 3ed cards, I'm allowed!) or Pokemon or similar, but I haven't figured how to do that just yet - that means I haven't got stats into the cards just yet, but I'm working on it. Worst case scenario, if you want to use the template, you can probably add a stat line (or multiples) along the bottom below the text, and reduce the text.

    Once I get home from work, I'll clean up the template and throw it up somewhere - I don't have all the "classes" put together yet, just the ones you see so far, but they're fairly simple to add to it. I cannot provide the fonts, but I can make suggestions for substitutions.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    This is cleaned up as best I can - it's a little large at over 16MB, but I've included one of the background I've put into the cards so you've got all you need to make the cards, follow the example.

    Because this uses the fonts I've bought, you'll see them in use, but if you change any of the text, you'll need to change the font. Obviously, if you want to add a "stats" section, you might want to reduce the size of the text.

    http://www.scautura.co.uk/bg/Card-Base-Clean.psd
  • Archived PostArchived Post Posts: 1,156,071 Arc User
    edited October 2009
    Both types of cards look really amazing. Great job done by both! :)
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