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Playing Card Chat ♠ ♥ ♣ ♦ => Design & Development => Topic started by: 52friends_and_me on March 03, 2018, 12:44:31 PM
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I work at Ripley's Believe it or Not in Branson, MO and during the off season it was really slow so I decided to design a deck of playing cards centered around the museum. I do not plan to sell these cards as this project was for fun/practice but I would appreciate critiques as if I was selling them so i can get better :) I only really focused on the Jokers, Ace of Spades, and the court cards.
Here's the pictures! Thanks in advance!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137616776@N04/?
I almost forgot. Here is a list of what each court card is.
KC- Robert Wadlow (Tallest Man in the World)
KH- J.T. Saylors AKA "Rubber Face"
KS- Robert Ripley
KD- Jo Jo the Dog Faced Man
QC- Dislocating Eyeballs
QH- Rose Siggins (Born without legs)
QS- Maria Jose Cristerna AKA "The Vampire Woman"
QD- Padaung Woman
JC- Erik "The Lizard Man" Sprague
JH- Longest Nose in History
JS- Weng AKA the Human Unicorn
JD- Fattest Man
AS- Two Headed Calf (Polycephaly)
Jokers- Tsantsa AKA Shrunken Head
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I work at Ripley's Believe it or Not in Branson, MO and during the off season it was really slow so I decided to design a deck of playing cards centered around the museum. I do not plan to sell these cards as this project was for fun/practice but I would appreciate critiques as if I was selling them so i can get better :) I only really focused on the Jokers, Ace of Spades, and the court cards.
Here's the pictures! Thanks in advance!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/137616776@N04/?
I almost forgot. Here is a list of what each court card is.
KC- Robert Wadlow (Tallest Man in the World)
KH- J.T. Saylors AKA "Rubber Face"
KS- Robert Ripley
KD- Jo Jo the Dog Faced Man
QC- Dislocating Eyeballs
QH- Rose Siggins (Born without legs)
QS- Maria Jose Cristerna AKA "The Vampire Woman"
QD- Padaung Woman
JC- Erik "The Lizard Man" Sprague
JH- Longest Nose in History
JS- Weng AKA the Human Unicorn
JD- Fattest Man
AS- Two Headed Calf (Polycephaly)
Jokers- Tsantsa AKA Shrunken Head
There's actually some real potential for a good deck here. You would have to make sure you get the rights for it, though - and there's always a good chance that whoever owns the Ripley's IP already sold those rights to another company, which would complicate matters.
In your shoes, rather than using manipulated images of standard court card faces, I'd go for more realistic images of the actual Ripley's "exhibits" instead. There'd be more interest in them, I think. You could go "full length" on them, making full-body portrait images instead of the traditional two-headed images, if you wanted to really show them off in all their glory. In fact, I'm certain there's enough history to Ripley's that you could easily fill at least one full deck of cards with unique images on each card. You likely even have enough for two full decks - a red-backed deck and a blue-backed deck, perhaps?
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Don't forget to include Jamie D. Grant. One of the nicest and most inspirational guys on the planet not just in Ripley's.