Hi folks,

it's been a bit since I posted new content last, (+ a username change!)

I've been tinkering with a modified interface for 2.0 cards. I had a 1.0 card interface that was pretty serviceable for my art but I wasn't happy with the look I was getting with 2.0 cards, because the graphic design on the FFG cards was just too different from it.

FFG moved away from skeuomorphism towards a cleaner interface with more blacks and pure colours, so I really thought I should start rolling out something that fits a bit better with this. I know there's an alt art interface they have been showing for tournament prizes, but it edges more towards clean HUD rather than the metal around it, so I thought I'd try and come up with one of my own, with a bit more of a 'cockpit feel'.

I did a few sketches here for rebel and imperial cards, then I've bashed in a few basic colours to get the idea with the text from 2.0 Vader and Madeline Boni's awesome Vader artwork. I have kept all fonts above the minimum cut lines and above a readable font size. Elements used for the rough sketches came mostly from X-wing game layouts and the central HUD for the TIE I used the console from Otaking77077's TIE fighter movie as a reference.

This is quite a ways from done, the colours in there are a rough sketch for the final piece, so I'll update this first post as I work my way through painting this into a final pair of pieces.

Imperial Interface:

Rebel Interface:

Test colours with Vader:

Looks pretty sweet so far! I'm not sure what's going on with that third sample image, but I definitely prefer the black background with white text than the other way around.

7 minutes ago, Herowannabe said:

Looks pretty sweet so far! I'm not sure what's going on with that third sample image, but I definitely prefer the black background with white text than the other way around.

this one?


just to show what the upgrades look like tucked underneath

1 hour ago, Autosketch said:

No this one.

2 minutes ago, Herowannabe said:

No this one.

ahh fair enough. Yea, I think I prefer the black, but I thought I'd drop a white one in there as it's similar to the vertical cards, and also the same as the upgrade cards.

I may need to enlarge the text area slightly, but I'm loathe to give up vertical space as it cuts into the area where the actions are displayed, which are of consistent size with the "additional action type" black and white tabs used on upgrade cards.

The white background with the black text keeps it nice and consistent. I prefer that one. These are sweet by the way. Looking forward to seeing your Rebel layout.

I like the design. The text is too small.

1 hour ago, DagobahDave said:

I like the design. The text is too small.

yea, I'm tinkering with it, having the text a different size than the upgrades isn't ideal, agreed.

something like this, text ramped up to just slightly smaller than the text on the Vader alt art. it's still below the size of the text of the upgrade cards though. The actions have been squished together a bit to allow it. I might bring the other side up a bit to let me have larger text in the box and move the subtitle to another spot.:

or even just splitting the text between pilot stats and skills on the left, and ship specific things on the right?
(roughly split with cut and paste)