absolute evil and card design

[breadmaster]

the brainstorming phase is coming along nicely.  most characters have at least one suggestion, and almost all have at least one potential special that i like/love

while that is not complete, i thought it would be good to get the design portion running parrallel

unfortunately, as i mentioned before, i'm pretty helpless in this regard.  if anyone has experience with graphic design/photoshop, and is willing to build the skeleton of the cards, as well as choose images, that would be great.  i have some thoughts, but ultimately, the final choices would lie with whoever wants to take this on

[Hotobu]

If you're going to do something like this design should always come last. How does the designer know what they're designing for?

[Jack]

My template from the Marvels should still be good. I'll likely change around the font for the specials' text this time around so it doesn't look so small.

I went with an orange theme since it was: chosen as a colour for the first Marvels printouts and it fits the theme of being very close to yellow for Special cards.

I was thinking of a dark red theme for Absolute Evil. If you need convincing, just do an image search on Google for evil and notice the colours on the page. Absolute Evil just doesn't seem green to me.

I'm going to need tremendous help with sourcing the images. I did more than half of the Marvels myself and it took a lot out of me.

[Kal-el]

I've always pictured it as red, so I agree with you there Jack.

[breadmaster]

like i said, i don't know this stuff, so have no idea how long it takes to sort out backrounds, fonts, borders and stuff

i was thinking a form of gray, but red is good too.  as i said, your call jack.  do you think you can get the black text to pop on the red backround?

[Jack]

I won't pull an Aspect card on this set, that's for sure.

[breadmaster]

awesome

speaking of aspects, that's another reason why i think green isn't a good choice for specials.  already taken

about the images: are you going to be as strict as last time? (mid 90s to early 00s)

[BasiliskFang]

I think we should use 2000 to 2005?

[Jack]

I only chose 1995-2002 since that's the time frame of when OverPower happened and I wanted to stay faithful to it. I'm willing to use whatever comic arts are available for AE since it would be entirely our set from conception to production.

[thetrooper27]

I hope Humberto Ramos' art is featured in a card or two.

[BasiliskFang]

I would love to help. I have many comics at my disposal.
Is any one thinking of any other extras? Variants of hard to find cards? Reworded or Repowered (lvl 4 ar's?, hellfire club HI, any hero zy, DC characters with inherits, unnerfed locations)
Of course some of these ideas can relate to image 2 or DC3 if this community gets there.

[Jack]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. There's still a lot of play testing to do before images are chosen so we should stick to just border and text for now.

[BasiliskFang]

For play testing, I can assume we would be able to use opo 2. Or perhaps print out cheap disposable versions? You can get 2 cards on a 4x6 photo, that's how I printed my beyonders.

[breadmaster]

a few other points

-should we give galactus a special?

-should we give warlock 6 specials?

-if we add a 'chaser' set along with this (for neglected characters), should the heroes get a different border/backround?

-should kree be lumped in with the 'evil' characters, or go in with the chasers?

my thoughts are: yes/yes/yes/chaser

[BasiliskFang]

Neglected? Like mentioned but not made? Blink, mephisto, Sauron? I would just like the locations changed, I think legion had a good idea...even tho he wasnt right on all of them. What do you mean by a border or background?

Galactus, no. Warlock, yes.
Kree, because they didn't get a marvels? X babies too? I think just let them be in the ae set.