Greetings dearest forum Users ![]()
I am here today to show off some of my latest steel Tokens but before that, some context on the title.
Ultimate Rare -style are a series of Yugioh Cards that are given a post-process foiling by means of Intaglio printing and semi-transparent Silver ink. The relief pattern is first laser engraved onto a piece of Copper, gently passed over with Relief Ink and then pressed onto paper with a Hydraulic Press. The goal here is to have microstructures that will reflect light towards the viewer at different Intensities depending on their angle of orientation. This allows patches of art to shine at different angles, creating the illusion that parts of the card are glowing.
My goal has been to recreate the same shine and effects on both paper and steel. While the topic of paper is for another Post, today i wanted to show off some of the results on steel.
This is a Fluff Token
Usually backgrounds on actual Tokens are grey but i kept it blue because blue is cool. The text glows Gold under a correct light but unfortunately it is not the same angle as i need to show off the Foiling. The Spiral pattern in the background is the main feature here. When you spin the card around under light, different sections of the Spiral shine, giving you this illusion that it is spinning.
Next up inside the head of the fluff, there are Horizontal lines on the Fluff mane, and vertical lines inside the head. Just like the spiral background these also shine at different angles when you move the card around
I am not sure how to upload a video but 10 MB limit is too small to show off any detail so i made a high quality Gif for all the enjoyers of numerous pixels. → Big Gif
-It is a 170 MB image so it may take few seconds to load
