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Mars Attacks cards come to life

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October 27, 2016, 01:56 PM
Ryan Cracknell
Mars Attacks cards come to life
Designer Justin Gammon has done a nifty job animating some of the original Mars Attacks cards: http://www.beckett.com/news/vi...rds-brought-to-life/



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October 27, 2016, 02:49 PM
mintoncard
VERY cool! Strangely enough, over the last few months I've been animating some of the paintings of Amanda Visell - http://www.elementdesigner.com/#/nacht/
October 27, 2016, 03:11 PM
Raven
These are very creative, I wish they were real cards. Which begs the question, why isn't something like this produced under the category of digital cards? Why are we referring to pictures of real cards as digital cards when they are not cards, only images of cards, and have no substance of their own? At least these GIFs have taken the original cards and added movement to create something brand new. I could understand someone wanting to collect a whole run of this version of Mars Attack cards as a digital set. I could not understand it if they were actually produced as real cards. I would like to own them as real cards, but they would probably never look this good. Very nice work.
October 27, 2016, 03:38 PM
mintoncard
quote:
Originally posted by Raven:
These are very creative, I wish they were real cards. Which begs the question, why isn't something like this produced under the category of digital cards? Why are we referring to pictures of real cards as digital cards when they are not cards, only images of cards, and have no substance of their own? At least these GIFs have taken the original cards and added movement to create something brand new. I could understand someone wanting to collect a whole run of this version of Mars Attack cards as a digital set. I could not understand it if they were actually produced as real cards. I would like to own them as real cards, but they would probably never look this good. Very nice work.


Agreed on all points. Why not animated digital cards? You could feature portraits of the cast / stars that slightly rotate or move (think, Harry Potter newspapers) or feature a scene from a film or tv show. The possibilities are endless.

Of course you could also do physical looping lenticular cards, but it seems most card companies these days don't want to spend any money on higher-end technology like that.
October 27, 2016, 04:55 PM
Ryan Cracknell
quote:
Originally posted by mintoncard:


Agreed on all points. Why not animated digital cards? You could feature portraits of the cast / stars that slightly rotate or move (think, Harry Potter newspapers) or feature a scene from a film or tv show. The possibilities are endless.

Of course you could also do physical looping lenticular cards, but it seems most card companies these days don't want to spend any money on higher-end technology like that.


They're coming. Topps' new hockey card app debuted a card that has video. I think the issue there is storage (ironically). The current card apps use a lot of cache (think gigabytes over the course of a few months if you use regularly). Video would make that worse I suspect. And for those of us with not enough memory, that's an issue -- plus they have to host it.

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October 27, 2016, 05:11 PM
Raven
quote:
Originally posted by mintoncard:
quote:
Originally posted by Raven:
These are very creative, I wish they were real cards. Which begs the question, why isn't something like this produced under the category of digital cards? Why are we referring to pictures of real cards as digital cards when they are not cards, only images of cards, and have no substance of their own? At least these GIFs have taken the original cards and added movement to create something brand new. I could understand someone wanting to collect a whole run of this version of Mars Attack cards as a digital set. I could not understand it if they were actually produced as real cards. I would like to own them as real cards, but they would probably never look this good. Very nice work.


Agreed on all points. Why not animated digital cards? You could feature portraits of the cast / stars that slightly rotate or move (think, Harry Potter newspapers) or feature a scene from a film or tv show. The possibilities are endless.

Of course you could also do physical looping lenticular cards, but it seems most card companies these days don't want to spend any money on higher-end technology like that.


I like lenticulars too, but some come off better than others. I have found that in general, many tend to be too dark, too fuzzy, or both. Then at worst, sometimes the movement effect is not even worth it. However when it works lenticulars look great.
October 30, 2016, 10:54 AM
mintoncard
quote:
Originally posted by Raven:
quote:
Originally posted by mintoncard:
quote:
Originally posted by Raven:
These are very creative, I wish they were real cards. Which begs the question, why isn't something like this produced under the category of digital cards? Why are we referring to pictures of real cards as digital cards when they are not cards, only images of cards, and have no substance of their own? At least these GIFs have taken the original cards and added movement to create something brand new. I could understand someone wanting to collect a whole run of this version of Mars Attack cards as a digital set. I could not understand it if they were actually produced as real cards. I would like to own them as real cards, but they would probably never look this good. Very nice work.


Agreed on all points. Why not animated digital cards? You could feature portraits of the cast / stars that slightly rotate or move (think, Harry Potter newspapers) or feature a scene from a film or tv show. The possibilities are endless.

Of course you could also do physical looping lenticular cards, but it seems most card companies these days don't want to spend any money on higher-end technology like that.


I like lenticulars too, but some come off better than others. I have found that in general, many tend to be too dark, too fuzzy, or both. Then at worst, sometimes the movement effect is not even worth it. However when it works lenticulars look great.


I think Rittenhouse did the very best lenticular work. Their later Star Trek and Bond "Motion" sets were very clear and had clean FPS motion. This was because they used newer lenticular technology that printed the image directly on the lens (as opposed to using the paper-backed kind). That, along with a very fine lens, made some of the most exceptional lenticular cards.