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Post by fifisdead on Aug 21, 2008 10:56:45 GMT -5
Inspired by homestarrunner.com
The stick is a popular hangout. Put The Stick in your part of the bunny circle and if there's ever an open space next to it opponent's bunnies will come and inhabit the open space... They'll even hop over barriers to hang out at The Stick...
The picture would be Strong Bad and the Cheat hanging out on one side of the stick and bunnies running to come join them at The Stick...
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Post by OMFGitsVico on Aug 23, 2008 0:19:25 GMT -5
Sadly, I'm a loser and I haven't been to homestarrunner.com since high school like 5 years ago, so I don't get the Stick reference. I definitely know what Strong Bad and the Cheat are, of course. I freakin love the Cheat.
BUT!
I dig what the card does. And it's very original. So two thumbs up from me :] I may even go catch up on Homestar, now. Who knows ...
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Post by fifisdead on Aug 23, 2008 11:11:37 GMT -5
I haven't been to homestarrunner.com in probably two or three years...at least if I have since I went to college it's only been for a couple of minutes... anyway, I was kinda excited about this card so I finished it... I realize I didn't change to text yet, other than that, critique the hell out of it...
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Post by TheDavii on Aug 24, 2008 7:52:38 GMT -5
I admit, I don't get the reference. How (much) does this differ from the Yahtzee! card?
But for critique:
1) There are no dice boxes colored; 2) Normally, in CTA cards, the foreground item has a bold outline around it (not that you have to do that); 3) The card title text has a stroke and fill, but seems to be missing the thick black "shadow".
Otherwise, the card looks fine.
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Post by OMFGitsVico on Aug 24, 2008 14:02:23 GMT -5
1) He said he realizes that he didn't change the text on the card. Probably because he also admitted to working "sloppy". So I'm guessing he just didn't have enough time, or didn't want to put too much time into it; he just wanted to give us an idea of what he had in mind. Right?
By the way, I remember the Stick now from the site, haha. Ah, memories ...
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Post by fifisdead on Aug 24, 2008 14:45:07 GMT -5
a) Ommy is correct, the text is going to be something similar to what it says in the middle paragraph of the first post... 1) see point a. 2) I'm not familiar or at least my memory doesn't serve at the moment with the term CTA, but I tried to be true to the homestarrunner.com style by not using a bold outline, similar to Ommy's Cuddles card, because happy tree friends don't use bold outlines either, and I'm sorry if that wasn't what you were referring to in the first place... 3) I'm sorry, in Illustrator, it seems that the thicker the border you put on text, the lesser the initial color of the letter stands out, and so I made a smaller border so you could see more of the white text color, other than that I could just move the rear black text a little...
Thanks...
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Post by BunnyBeauty on Aug 24, 2008 16:22:08 GMT -5
Homestarrunner.com is awesome...
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Post by TheDavii on Aug 24, 2008 21:45:21 GMT -5
CTA = Creative Team Alpha.
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Post by fifisdead on Aug 24, 2008 23:34:57 GMT -5
well, my answer still makes sense and it sticks...
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Post by TheDavii on Aug 25, 2008 6:23:08 GMT -5
I'm sure that CTA uses Adobe Illustrator too. The "key" is a trick. The card name is in two objects. The black outline is a separate object (with a thicker stroke) that is behind the white text object (that has a narrower stroke).
Try duplicating your white text object, make the stroke thicker (about 3x thicker than the existing one), and make the fill black also. Then send it behind the white text object. Then move it up and left about 3 nudges (ALT-arrow in Illustrator, I think. May be more nudges than that, but it is 3 in Inkscape). Should work like a charm.
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Post by fifisdead on Aug 25, 2008 11:26:08 GMT -5
that's almost exactly how I have it... I have a black text layer with a black .75 black stroke and a white text layer with a .25 black stroke about three nudges down and to the right...
However, I may not have done exactly that for this card...
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Post by element2727 on Aug 25, 2008 16:37:53 GMT -5
well, my answer still makes sense and it sticks... Nice pun! Long live homestarrunner!!
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Post by OMFGitsVico on Aug 25, 2008 17:21:24 GMT -5
Long live the Cheat!
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Post by fifisdead on Aug 27, 2008 0:18:08 GMT -5
I'm so glad the cheat is not dead...
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Post by sprinterash on Nov 30, 2008 20:30:23 GMT -5
The cheat is not deeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaadd
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