Blanka test print shirt
Posted Sep 11, 2012, 1:16 AM UTC
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Great work!! Lucky it's on white =) I used to print for Terry Ng when i worked at Mammoth Printshop. I remember all to well registering some of his 7-8 colors.
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Yeah, it also prints as a 7 color on black. I'm sure you of all folks understand the joys of his prints. Just got done printing Guile; had to re-flash the black layer 3 times to get the halftones correct. Nearly everything he sends us now is 8-12 colors starting out and we've got to creatively find ways to print them on our 8 color auto (with a flash mixed in, so 7 max in revolver mode). Good times. It does feel awesome wrapping up a print for him though when they've turned out well.
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ah yes, the good ol' days of running our Sportsman on Revolver. I'm at a new shop in Chicago now and we limit our prints to 6color max. Mind if i ask which company you're involved with? Looks like you're pretty regular on this sub.
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Did you by chance print his Konnichiwa series of shirts? I fear the day that he asks me to try and re-create that artwork. He sent me something that he got directly from capcom that wasn't vector and also terrible in quality, like someone scanned a printout and then blew it up 50%. He went back and asked them if they had anything better and they had nothing more to offer.
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Nope, we never printed any of the Konnichiwa series. I remember telling him that we couldn't do it, and back then his mock-ups were a little different too. (The print went all the way to the bottom of the tee 0.o) We did a lot of the same series you guys are doing, here is a pic of Yun i dug up.
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Do you have a website with your art?
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The artwork in question is part of Kineda's line of Street Fighter themed shirts. They can be found here in his store.
He does stuff in that Tokidoki / Kid Robot-esque style. Direct comparison would be the tokidoki marvel re-creations. Much along the same line. He's done some Akira shirts that were pretty fun.
His main website is more of a lifestyle blog with posts about video games and hot girls.
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Awesome once again!! 8 color this time??
Actually on white its just a 6 color. Halftones in the orange, black, and green flesh tone make it look like 10 colors.
wow. I was trying to look for haltones, but couldn't see them in the image. what LPI are they? It's so good!
Ran the hair and flesh through 230 mesh with a frequency of 55 on the halftones. Black only makes a shadow on the brown in his shorts and the gray bracelet. Ran that with a 230 @ 46. When you're up close on it you can for sure tell, but that's the whole point of that print process: tricking your eyes into seeing other colors/shading.