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#1 Johnraka

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 03:23 PM

Kept putting this off as the pictures are not good enough for a catalogue (photographing glass is a real nightmare trust me on this!).
Anyway, finally decided to post some pics up tonight of what I have achieved so far after 3 months of hard slog...

I guess the collection will be a bit like Marmite - you will either love it or hate it, obviously I am hoping that you love it.

Prices are still to be worked out but bear in mind I won't be able to hold stock of this (there are 26 images!), each mousemat will come with 3 images from the respective age, the coasters are a set of 4 with a holder so can be any combination you like.
All stuff is ordered as required and is around 14-21 days turnaround (from order to delivery) - overseas may take a little longer.

Enjoy... (Pics are a little bit low grade and not 'picture perfect' but they are just to give you an idea...

p.s. The page curl is my trade mark so will be on everything except the coasters as they are too small for it to be effective.
All images are copyright Cyan Worlds Inc - Riven 1997.

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Mugs

Mousemats with Inserts

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Mousemat (Specials)

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Jungle Island Set

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Glass Placemat

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Placemat, Mugs and Coasters

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As above

Coasters

Plateau Island Set (Mousemat, Cup and Coaster)

That's it for now...

#2 rivendagger

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 03:45 PM

Holy Gehn !

You did an awesome job and the images you chose are just perfect for these sets.

Cant wait!

I sent you a Sent PM

#3 Johnraka

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Posted 21 June 2012 - 04:33 PM

rivendagger, on 21 June 2012 - 03:45 PM, said:

Holy Gehn !

You did an awesome job and the images you chose are just perfect for these sets.

Cant wait!

I sent you a Sent PM

#4 Capella

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Posted 22 June 2012 - 07:05 AM

Wow, these are fantastic! I am super excited and cannot wait to make an order.

#5 Johnraka

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Posted 23 June 2012 - 01:38 PM

Capella, on 22 June 2012 - 07:05 AM, said:

Wow, these are fantastic! I am super excited and cannot wait to make an order.

Quote just sent to Rivendagger - at the time he contacted me I hadn't even worked the prices out so have had to hit the ground running on that, hoping to publish the catalogue and start trading in about a week (a month before I planned but who's counting? lol).

#6 A'Reandal

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Posted 24 June 2012 - 08:31 PM

Very, VERY cool! Nice job, Johnraka!

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#7 Johnraka

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Posted 25 June 2012 - 02:04 AM

Thanks for the positive feedback guys - much appreciated.

Spent the entire weekend trying to render the background image for the catalogue - taking on average 6 hours to render - couple of minor glitches which are hopefully ironed out now so will kick off the final rendering tonight then get the whole lot into Photoshop and start compiling the whole thing.

It has been a lot of work and I can't get them as low in price as I would have liked but they are all quality items so I am happy with that and I am sure Cyan will be as well.
Tony Fryman's comments to me at the start were "When these kinds of things go wrong it usually ends up getting the Company (Cyan) a bad rap", he tried to dissuade me from even starting in the belief that it probably wouldn't be worth my time or the effort involved, once I explained that I wouldn't be churning out rubbish and that I just wanted to give something slightly different back into the community he agreed the licence.

3 months of hard work but I am very pleased with the outcome and even though this won't make me a millionaire who knows what all the graphics work might do - might even open the doorway to a better job somewhere else...

You never know...