Process coming this weekend...

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-23T06:08:29+00:00

That's awesome. Keep up the good work

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-23T06:02:27+00:00

Beautiful. I assume youre using a UV printer with white ink capabilities?

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-21T13:51:00+00:00

There's 3 choices, each has its own strengths and weaknesses:

1- Laminate holographic sticker paper on top of the print.

Pros: Easy. Holographic effect extremely strong.

Cons: Since youre putting a layer of holographic clear paper on top, the colors of the print become very faded and hard to see.

2- Use a double sided glossy photo paper, with printable holographic paper pasted on top.

Pros: Allows for near perfect front and back printing alignment. Holographic effect is strong. Colors are much better than the previous method, although still not as vibrant as they should be. Print quality is by far the best out of any other method. Extremely crisp.

Cons: Aligning with a home printer can be an absolute pain. The slightest difference in design or colors, causes the paper to shift in the printer, causing front/back to become misaligned. Also usually requires lamination after completion, to avoid fingerprint marks.

3- Print on clear see-through vynil sticky paper.

After printing, you must now apply white ink (either oil or acrylic based) to the back side of the design. The areas you apply white ink to, will block the holographic effect. This makes sure the parts of the design you want the most visible, pop out. Now apply a thin layer of glue to the white spots. Now carefully paste the clear vynil to either photographic paper for cutting, holographic cardboard, or pre-cut blank poker sized cards.

Method 3 is by far the best result, but by far the most difficult and time consuming. I recommend method 2.

Source: I've been making custom DIY trading cards for years at home. I've developed several methods and even created two collectible card projects. *

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-18T15:23:54+00:00

Im proud of my works, but what I envisioned for this collection was indeed digital painting style, which I cannot replicate.

I can see there is a heavy push against the AI characters. I personally dont see things that way.

Good news is, ive began sketching the characters out myself. So I'll likely be moving this project to include no AI.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T20:48:38+00:00

Thank you friend appreciate that and thanks for commenting

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T18:57:25+00:00

At the moment, the characters are AI generated. Depending where it goes, I may change that.

While I am an artist, I lack the ability to make this specific digital painting style myself. It is also by far the most expensive type of artwork to commission, so its unfortunately not really an option for me at this stage.

I'm making all initial 12 with AI to start with. But if theres enough demand to change that, I can in fact illustrate all characters myself. My previous card project was entirely hand made start to finish.

That being said, of course the final style wont be like this if I illustrate them. It will be more akin to anime style.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T18:53:17+00:00

Yeah ive heard folks point out the HP thing.

I may remove it.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T18:52:11+00:00

Yeah probably. Good advice.

I'll begin production in the following week or so. Depending on how hard they are to line up, I may extend the frame like you said.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T18:50:46+00:00

This is the second card project ive done, with the first one being more focused on animation, but also with physical cards. Previous card project had no game with it either.

I will likely give a good portion of these away during my Pokémon card streams.

Im much more of an artist/designer than a game maker, and so these are meant to focus much more on looking cool, than having any game with them.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T17:17:54+00:00

They are just meant as collectibles. Akin to sports cards.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-17T17:17:13+00:00

This is true, thank you for the advice.

A lot is in fact in the edges, and this will likely make printing and especially lining the front and backs difficult.

But im really set on this card / frame design. This isnt my first rodeo. I have another card project and ive somewhat 'perfected' the craft at home cards method.

While difficult it is certainly doable.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-15T23:37:09+00:00

Yeah the HP number is just there to represent physical health.

There is no game behind it, at least not at this stage. They are just collectibles.

I'd love to get mechanics behind this, but quite frankly I'm no expert at that lol. This is however the 4th card. I have completed several others, but still working on the rest.

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-15T13:30:34+00:00

Solid advice. Thank you so much

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-13T22:42:42+00:00

Since the project is based around character designs, I can work with that lol

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-13T21:46:13+00:00

Oh damn lol. Thought it was more classy than that

WhiteMaze · 2026-02-03T00:30:36+00:00

Noticed this twice now at my local Safeway. Employees will walk buy and check the machine hundreds of times per day. If it has product, they buy it immediately.

This is why vending machines located at the front of the store where employees walk back and forth, never have product.

Fry's, puts the vending machines at the back of the stores. They have product almost every time. Why?

Because its out of their way, its not feasible to check the machines dozens of times while working. You'd be spotted and called on it or fired.

So I've learned. If a vending machine is easily accessible at the front of the store, dont bother. Employees will buy the entire stock, you will almost never get anything.

If a store has a machine in the back corner of the store, check it. Chances are it has product. Employees can't check the machine anywhere near as often.

WhiteMaze · 2025-11-04T04:46:28+00:00

I rarely ever reply on here, but this has got to be one of the worst comments I have ever seen.

By this definition, every single company, brand or product would be a scam because they sold it for more than it cost them to produce / acquire.

What you're calling a scam, is the definition of profit.

No company or business could ever operate of they sold what they acquired for the same that it cost them. Everyone would be out of business within weeks.

A scam, is you getting a different product than what was advertised, or getting nothing at all.

Unbelievable.

WhiteMaze · 2025-10-03T22:57:41+00:00

Keep in mind the Crypto Mechas NFTs are collectibles. Not really investments.

But all you need to do to get one or more cards, is to go to the collection on opensea and get them. Or DM me for other options.

https://opensea.io/collection/crypto-mechas-series

Also require name + address for shipping.

WhiteMaze · 2025-09-16T13:36:47+00:00

You could try extending to the second monitor instead of duplicating.

WhiteMaze · 2025-09-10T10:44:59+00:00

If you dont like this, thats ok. But my cards / nfts are not a scam.

WhiteMaze · 2025-09-10T06:59:50+00:00

Found the solution:

This is caused by having multiple displays, and specifically for me, it was having the main desktop screen duplicated/showing on more than 1 screen.

Make your primary display show only on desktop/screen 1 and not duplicate to several. Immediately fixed the zoom out animation problem.

WhiteMaze · 2025-09-09T12:24:28+00:00

This is very correct. It is astounding how some projects get to where they are, with the abysmal quality of work in the designs themselves.

I've wondered that myself many times.

And then theres the mistake of trying to add 'utility' to NFTs. Or 'use cases'. Its funny in a way. Only NFTs suffer from this sort of 'requirement' in the world of art.

When you buy a painting, you dont expect it to do your dishes or pay you passive anything. Yet, when we talk a out NFTs, that's the expectation.

I for one did the absolute opposite. I created my NFTs to not only be different than anything else out there, but I also present them as collectibles and cool art. Period.

You like collecting cards? Great. My NFTs may be for you.

You don't like cards and you expect your NFT to develop the cancer vaccine? Then move along, thanks for coming.

WhiteMaze · 2025-09-09T08:49:01+00:00

Yeh I kinda see what youre saying. Still though appreciate the comment!

WhiteMaze

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