March 2015 Video Tutorial -- Creating a Casino Poster Part 2

[Gare]

I already watch the part 1 of this tutorial video and this is what I'm waiting.

Let us see your work when you are finished, eh?

Happy weekend (TGIF), everyone!

Gary

[Rik]

I thought I would try it with other type of poker chips.
What do you think?

[Gare]

I like it, Rik! Actually, the poker chips I modeled and rendered are from amateurish, home game sets of cards, cheap plastic with those ridges. What you created (and apparently extruded) are genuine Las Vegas (or as we say here, "Lost Wages") chips.

Can you tell me which approach you used for making the brush?

The overall composition looks splendid, Rik, and it seems that you went to Stu's Font Diner for the fonts, didn't you? I think, but am not sure, I used my own fonts I bought from Fontdiner.com in the video.

Well, done, sir. You never gamble with a Bouton tutorial.

Ouch,

Gare

[Rik]

I did go to Stu's Font Diner for 'Featured Item' and 'Marker Monkey' fonts.
But, used a font that my son has, called 'Eurocentric' for Ladies Night.

For the brush, I actually used the topmost images (from your .xar file 'card suits strokes'), and simply created a brush from those.
I did not create a bitmap copy first, and then make a brush.
I simply used the images at the top, selected all of them, and created a brush. It worked for me.

I hope you like my new chips?!

[Rik]

The centre piece, with the writing: to me, that needs to be right at the back. On the felt, itself.
Therefore, I've placed the poker chips in front and the playing cards towards the front as well.

What do you think, Gary?
Or have I missed a trick, somewhere?

[Gare]

Okay, Rik, I can see that. How do you feel about the neon tubing slightly touching the headline within the roulette circle? THIS is where the finer points of decision-making with designs comes into play. How little is too little, and just touching the headline looks sloppy and annoying? Or too much obscures the legibility of the headline?

Believe me: I gave a lot fo though to where I put elements in my own version.

On the other hand, there has to be more than one design solution, right?

My Best,

Gary

[Rik]

The reason I went with my though, is that the roulette wheel does not have a shadow going to bottom right.
And the roulette wheel has an inset shadow onto the white area.

So, I thought that the poker ships and the playing cards should be above the roulette wheel.

Mind you. I might put a shadow onto the roulette wheel and then the poker chips and the playing cards would be behind.
Yes?!

[Rik]

Here's another try.
I've also removed my 3D poker chips.

As the view of the cards and the roulette wheel is from above, then the poker chip view would be from above as well.
Well, that's my thinking!