geekhack Marketplace => Interest Checks => Topic started by: Chairsss on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:20:28
Title: [IC] Kan
Post by: Chairsss on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:20:28
Hello, I am running an interest check on how popular anime-themed keycaps are. The current themes I am working on are Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid characters with the most work being done on Kanna. Please fill out the form below if you would be interested in this idea or if not on any other anime that you might think would be good for keycap sets. The designs for the novelties would come after this IC so please make sure to pay attention to the colors.
https://imgur.com/a/MOcYtYv
https://forms.gle/JKNrvYttoWQZcgJb9
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: pentawater on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:22:13
Kan't
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Post by: JinDevil on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:22:35
Kan you not?
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Post by: mdlt97 on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:23:18
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Post by: CaptainVinceO2 on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:23:45
POGGERS Nice IC Kan You Knot
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: GaNeBaL on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:24:00
Kan you please flesh out this IC a bit more?
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Post by: HoodrowThrillson on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:24:45
taihao miami was the first keycap set i ever bought.
this brings me nostalgia
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: Janoma on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:25:53
Yeah... Needs a bit more work on the kitting and maybe some 3d renders would be nice. :-\
As for the colors, they just don't work well together imo. Blue and pink are very contrasty, maybe if they were darker or lighter and not so Miami-esque.
I'd recommend putting this in the Keyboard Keycaps section of gh, maybe people will be a little nicer there.
Gl :)
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: hali on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:29:30
shouldnt
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Post by: pancake on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:36:38
put me in the screenshot
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: kumori on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:38:05
You Kannot impress me... this kan be worked on more Kan.
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Post by: PikaJoyce on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:39:26
glwic
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Post by: 002_GT on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:40:30
Have a look at ic's like gmk dracula before u post pls
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Post by: Baka Bot on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:42:00
I don't even know what i'm looking at.
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: Crooks on Thu, 15 October 2020, 19:47:35
lovei t
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Post by: jollyeskimo on Thu, 15 October 2020, 20:48:54
This sure riled up the Kanadians
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Post by: Kajoler on Thu, 15 October 2020, 21:01:56
:'(
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Post by: treeleaf64 on Thu, 15 October 2020, 21:18:53
kan
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Post by: FNM on Thu, 15 October 2020, 22:13:01
Best set ever. It will move to GB in 2 days. I bet
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: KanyeMidEast on Fri, 16 October 2020, 03:43:59
Kan you please do more work on this project instead of making your first post an ic, look at other ics and see how orangized they are and create another one once you’ve done a decent amount of planning instead of just throwing two colors together that have already been used many times in keysets in the past. You have a good idea you just need time to execute it better.
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Post by: RIFT on Fri, 16 October 2020, 03:53:16
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Post by: pool on Fri, 16 October 2020, 17:13:17
Looks like Olivia
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: PheonixStarr on Fri, 16 October 2020, 21:12:32
someone post the Krelbit thing, you know which thing
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: elmo on Sat, 17 October 2020, 15:03:44
(https://i.imgur.com/wxzfEzk.png)
Title: Re: [IC] Kan
Post by: Nonnegaard on Mon, 19 October 2020, 03:44:39
I appreciate the hustle and desire to capitalize on zeitgeist while you can.
That being said, early ICs are simply not the way to go about publishing a set concept. A bad early IC is way worse than a late, fleshed out IC. ICs are all about impressions and the impression this IC leaves upon me is very poor. You're looking for positive reception as confirmation for renders? You're not going to find it with this low quality of an IC.
It's clear that you're fairly new to the community. You made a GH account to post this thread. This is a 104 key base kit. That's something you majorly flesh out before you even have colors in a lot of cases. Your colors are web colors, meaning you're oblivious to the IC process and GMK production as a whole, things you can easily find out more about by visitng the trove of old GB and IC threads, or even uniqey's website. This comes off as a cash grab from an inexperienced community member, which, to be honest, I'm not ragging on, but I'm definitely not about it. Take some time in the hobby to be part of the community. Be a little more active. Find out what works, what's good, why it works, why it's good, and talk with more types of folks to engage in that exchange. That's what it's really about. While the "i see guy make thing, i can make thing too!" mentality certainly has driven a lot of cool stuff, this is not one of those cases.
Renders went from being a nice to have in ICs to nearly a need to have. It shows you have some level of personal commitment to the set that you would even pay for mockups our of your own pocket before anything is official. To not have renders and to just show off a set of KLEs, is definitely not a good look, and the KLEs do a very poor job of showing the colors that you want to show, or maybe they do a really good job, but to me they look like blanks. I'm not trying to bog you down or take shots at an easy target, rarely anything ever deserves that. If you're truly invested in making this set happen beyond a text-post and a barely visible KLE render, you need to make a very good impression, so that vendors who see your IC will want to work with ya.
Many people will not buy into the concept if the IC is not good from the get-go. You can sell any concept to anyone as long as the beginning impressions are good enough.
If you're intent on making this happen (and this would have to be very soon, before more eyes can see this and get their first impressions, which, in their current state would result in the set being written off extremely quickly) then you can:
1. Flesh out those layouts. 2. Get some renders. 3. Pick colors that aren't web colors, it's 2020. We have resources to help design GMK sets. GMK has resources to help design GMK sets. Use google, guy. 4. Goals, MOQs, prior contact to GMK show vendors that you're willing to do work beyond "hur dur look at color now shoulder it all for me," which, even if a vendor wouldn't take you up on, they would like to see. 5. Give more of a ****. Going into a project half-assed (you could be fully on board, but this post does certainly not show that) only makes me believe in the project less. If you don't believe in your project enough to give a detailed, commited sales pitch, why should any vendor, or even why should the community believe in it? Dipping your toes into the pool is simply not an option when everyone else who's making successful sets is hopping in headfirst.