Thanks for the ideas ladies and gents. I'm messing around with a few of these today, just a few quick thoughts, in reverse order:
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UFO. I like it! It's a little close to the Godspeed theme, and the images with the cows and whatnot are a little too complex and detailed for a keycap, but I'll see what comes out from the experiments;
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Power button. I feel this is a little too specific a function for a novelty. Does anyone have a dedicated power button on their keyboard?
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Godspeed These are generally excellent novelties, all within a solid theme. I'm also trying to keep within a general "glow" theme rather than scattergun a bunch of unrelated knickknacks, and without stealing too much from existing precedent. In this case, outer-space has a little too much overlap (see UFO above)
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Alien, Ninja, Pumpkin. These is neat, but a good example of unrelated knickknack. They would work in an emoji- or similar themed set, but they don't speak "glow" to me. The pumpkin in particular is a little too close to kitsch.
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sunset, evolution - I don't think these would translate too well to dye-sub, they'd need a significant loss in detail which would lose the design;
The above may seem like I'm poo-pooing any and all ideas coming in, but I'm just trying to be fair and critical for novelties to make sure all that get mocked up are already solid enough before spending too much time on them. Each design takes quite a lot of time to get through iteration and render, and I'm already eliminating some of ones that I've already worked through that in the end don't seem quite right.
Keep 'em coming, there's gold in them thar hills!
EDIT: Oof, these are taking a lot longer than expected. Some over-done progress renders of a few of my favourites.
I don't like the UFO which looks like a mushroom. Strangely enough I haven't gotten to drawing a mushroom. Is that irony?