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Art-modding: Collector cards for WFC toys (ft. Horrorcons)

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Art-modding: Collector cards for WFC toys (ft. Horrorcons)

Postby ZeldaTheSwordsman » Thu Nov 12, 2020 9:46 pm

Motto: "Earthrise restock or riot"
I'm enjoying the Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy, for the most part. But one thing I miss from Titans Return and Power of the Primes is each figure coming with a collector's card (I don't miss the Combiner Wars cards though because most of them sucked; they used art not based on the toy they came with).

So I decided to make my own, using scans of the WFC packaging art and of the official collector cards from TR and PotP. This is something I've been wanting to do for a while now, and I finally got to work the past couple days. I've done 3 and will be sharing them now. Warning: long stretch of dead space in each image because I wasn't sure if cropping it would screw up the print scaling; I'll test that later.

The first ones I did were Titans Return-style cards for the Horrorcons - after all, they're practically Titans Return toys released after the fact:
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This next one is a card for Springer, still in the Titans Return style but adapted for the fact that he's not a Headmaster. I decided to adapt Titans Return partly because it was more generalized than PotP, and partly because in his case it would match with his fellow TFTM characters who received lovely updates in TR.
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As you can see, the adaptations are:
1. Removing the "head" and "body" icons from the text bars.
2. Repurposing the Titan Master text bar to instead show his Function (taken from his G1 box bio).
3. Renumbering the meter to go from 1 to 10, since Springer obviously can't get Titan Master boosts.
This is the style I'll be going with for most of the cards; the exceptions will be Greenlight and Lancer, where I will use the PotP style instead, and Scorponok who will use straight TR-style because duh.

One adaptation made to all three of these cards is the printing of their function in the left-hand margin of the front, using Jim Sorenson's "Ancient Autobot" font (chosen because Hasbro used it on Earthrise packaging). This occurred because the framed WFC boxart is proportionally narrower than the TR card art thanks to being cut off at the left, so I wound up with a noticeable bit of dead space on the card. I also added each character's badge to the card in a formerly-empty area.

Shoutout to TFU.info for listing characters' tech specs.

Anyway, click on them to be taken to DeviantART where you can download the full-size versions and print as per the instructions.





...Doing this project dredged up an observation that Hasbro undermined the gimmick they set up with the TR Tech Specs by not providing collector cards for the separate-sale Titan Masters. Or even just printing the specs on their blister cards. Did they ever at least publish the specs for those Titan Masters somewhere?
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Re: Art-modding: Collector cards for WFC toys (ft. Horrorcons)

Postby ZeldaTheSwordsman » Fri Nov 20, 2020 6:15 pm

Motto: "Earthrise restock or riot"
Does anyone have feedback on these? Like, should I adjust the Titan Master stat boosts on Apeface and Snapdragon's cards or anything like that? I already know there's one adjustment I need to make to Snapdragon's card anyway; it should say "Decepticon Krunk" instead of just "Krunk".
WANT:
* Cybertron Galvatron key, missiles
* Omega Lock
* Primus Cyber Key, coattail panel
* Powerlinx Comettor
* Cyb Jetfire R gun and missile
* RiD Galvy dragon head, beast arms
* DotM Ironhide windshield, R hood assy.
* ROTF Jetfire R JTFR panel

Di Bonaventura is not a credible or trustworthy source. And most fans do like the diversity push, thanks.

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