Author Topic: [IC] StarCrafts Keycaps for ESC and F1-F12 (if possible) (Read 20358 times)

chenga91 · « **on:** Thu, 21 March 2013, 19:31:23 »

What's up, y'all. To my knowledge, there aren't any more Starcraft keycap group buys due to licensing issues. How about a group buy with Carbot Animation's drawings of Starcraft units? I find his Zerg units the most adorable.

Videos can be found here:

list=SP0QrZvg7QIgpoLdNFnEePRrU-YJfr9Be7&index=1

If there's interest, I'll try contacting the guy behind Carbot if this would be okay to do and if he's willing to provide us with 4 units of each race (for the F-keys) and maybe an extra Zergling in a different pose (cuz they so damn cute) or maybe his Star Crafts logo for the ESC key.

Do you think this is feasible? I understand custom key makers need the design to be in a certain file format for them to work on it. Ideally, I'd like to get Dyesub PBTs.

Index · « **Reply #1 on:** Fri, 22 March 2013, 11:26:06 »

I want the zergling NAO

Potologue · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 09:30:21 »

Take my money.

rekanise · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 10:24:02 »

i m down for this

cannedlemons · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 16:24:10 »

adorable and would be interested as well. :3

Q404 · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 17:53:46 »

I would love this sooo much.
Defintely interested .

bear95 · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 18:58:01 »

Must have ling

Sifo · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 23 March 2013, 19:01:38 »

I'd take a ling. StarCrafts is awesome, and so is CarBot!

Neal · « **Reply #8 on:** Sun, 24 March 2013, 14:25:09 »

I'd sooooo take some.

emusan · « **Reply #9 on:** Sun, 24 March 2013, 14:45:07 »

I'd probably buy a set, or two

love starcrafts ^_^

Clicky · « **Reply #10 on:** Sun, 24 March 2013, 16:19:10 »

I'd take a ling cap for sure!

danielucf · « **Reply #11 on:** Mon, 25 March 2013, 07:02:00 »

Do dye sub caps for full color printing and it would be really nice. Maybe even do a fancy spacebar of one of the battle scenes or something.

LechnerDE · « **Reply #12 on:** Mon, 25 March 2013, 12:21:14 »

I'd love to get a full set.

I think you should go for Dyesub PBT like in this group buy:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=37360.0

CPTBadAss · « **Reply #13 on:** Mon, 25 March 2013, 12:24:56 »

I'm sooooo down for this!

chenga91 · « **Reply #14 on:** Mon, 25 March 2013, 15:40:32 »

Quote from: LechnerDE on Mon, 25 March 2013, 12:21:14

I'd love to get a full set.

I think you should go for Dyesub PBT like in this group buy:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=37360.0

Ah yes. That's what I would go for

I got a set of the Portal Dyesub PBTs a while back and they're niceee!

rurushu · « **Reply #15 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 08:20:48 »

might be interested to get these.... after seeing all the 12 designs!!!!

bear95 · « **Reply #16 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 11:28:42 »

Zergling is priority

remedyhalopc · « **Reply #17 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 15:31:39 »

hashbaz · « **Reply #18 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 15:34:42 »

100% for this, and my kids will be too. They bug me every night to watch "that funny Starcraft show" before bed.

What about a set of four or six zergling keys in different poses? For use in a section of the F row or the Home/End navigation cluster?

Sifo · « **Reply #19 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 17:10:12 »

Quote from: hashbaz on Tue, 26 March 2013, 15:34:42

100% for this, and my kids will be too. They bug me every night to watch "that funny Starcraft show" before bed.

What about a set of four or six zergling keys in different poses? For use in a section of the F row or the Home/End navigation cluster?

6 pooler alert ^^ my favourite is the infestor.

OrangeJewce · « **Reply #20 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 17:19:28 »

JERGALING!!!!!

Cheers,

bear95 · « **Reply #21 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 18:00:27 »

Lol buy ling keycaps for all keys... zerg rush!

purple_haze · « **Reply #22 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 20:58:21 »

Do it

hashbaz · « **Reply #23 on:** Tue, 26 March 2013, 22:18:24 »

Quote from: Sifo on Tue, 26 March 2013, 17:10:12

6 pooler alert ^^ my favourite is the infestor.

Hehe the infestor is my favorite too. But I think the zergling will read best on a keycap.

rurushu · « **Reply #24 on:** Wed, 27 March 2013, 10:48:31 »

haha.... i also like the infestor the most!
it looks just like a cute little boy trying to play with his hellion toy!!!

rurushu · « **Reply #25 on:** Sun, 31 March 2013, 08:53:49 »

any update on this??? or is it going to stay just as an IC?

mickd · « **Reply #26 on:** Mon, 01 April 2013, 02:28:05 »

I would love an SP dyesub of that ling key. So colour me interested!

Q404 · « **Reply #27 on:** Mon, 01 April 2013, 13:08:25 »

So what is now ?
Is this projekt dead or what is going on?

findingthelimit · « **Reply #28 on:** Mon, 01 April 2013, 16:14:15 »

OH MY GOD ITS SO CUTE DO IT DO IT DO IT :[

YMSNoms · « **Reply #29 on:** Mon, 01 April 2013, 17:31:49 »

I must have all of these keys

Joxx · « **Reply #30 on:** Wed, 03 April 2013, 03:26:25 »

Definitly interested in those!

Sleabo · « **Reply #31 on:** Thu, 04 April 2013, 10:14:21 »

Have you thought about doing this with our new printing service at QWERkeys? please get in touch if you need more info, we can print any logo onto any keycap provided it works at that scale, ie, words canbe seen at that resolution

TheQsanity · « **Reply #32 on:** Thu, 04 April 2013, 10:59:50 »

Whoah never seen the vid. Soo cute!

rurushu · « **Reply #33 on:** Thu, 04 April 2013, 11:51:32 »

where is TS after all these while?
is he leaving this just as an IC?

no more updates or new word from him..... >.<

LechnerDE · « **Reply #34 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 05:14:49 »

any news on this one? has the OP actually contacted carbot yet?

seems like the OP has vanished into thin air...

Ragnorock · « **Reply #35 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 11:48:38 »

Hey guys, I was just thinking... I could quite easily get in contact with Carbot and potentially have these made by imsto in my dyesub group buy since it could use the extra keys. Even if he didn't have the time to provide us with art I could vector that stuff pretty fast. Thoughts?

LechnerDE · « **Reply #36 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 13:38:40 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Thu, 11 April 2013, 11:48:38

Hey guys, I was just thinking... I could quite easily get in contact with Carbot and potentially have these made by imsto in my dyesub group buy since it could use the extra keys. Even if he didn't have the time to provide us with art I could vector that stuff pretty fast. Thoughts?

F*cking awesome!!

Just imagining the whole bottom row with carbot pics makes me drool

CPTBadAss · « **Reply #37 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 13:51:27 »

YES PLEASE RAG!!

cannedlemons · « **Reply #38 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 14:20:35 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Thu, 11 April 2013, 11:48:38

Hey guys, I was just thinking... I could quite easily get in contact with Carbot and potentially have these made by imsto in my dyesub group buy since it could use the extra keys. Even if he didn't have the time to provide us with art I could vector that stuff pretty fast. Thoughts?

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!! I will be forever grateful if you could do this!! <333

Q404 · « **Reply #39 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 14:34:10 »

YEEAH!! That would be so great ,i love you

TheQsanity · « **Reply #40 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 15:05:03 »

YES YES YES, OH PLEASE OH MORE! UGH OH YEAHHHH!
Sorry couldn't help it haha.
I think the infestor is pretty funny. That would be great for a cap.

I have an idea... F1 is a larva or egg. Somewhere in the middle is a ling. Then a profile view of the ling as if it was running. Near the end is a marine and at the end, the marine gets attacked by the ling. Like a mini slide show.

findingthelimit · « **Reply #41 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 20:44:12 »

YES. TAKE MY MONEY. AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.

Are they all bottom row caps? as in, zxcvb.. and so on? do they work for arrow keys?

Ragnorock · « **Reply #42 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 20:53:12 »

I'm going to offer them for both. I want them for the Esc row, but there is no way I'm not putting the Zergling for my Z key.

XD.

I'm sending Carbot an email now, we'll see what he says.

Ragnorock · « **Reply #43 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:19:39 »

Thoughts?

Halverson · « **Reply #44 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:22:12 »

Lookin good! Would pick some of the Zerg ones up

Ragnorock · « **Reply #45 on:** Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:30:37 »

If any of you guys have better poses or characters you'd rather see, toss up the suggestions, because I'm looking at the Immortal, Thor, Marauder and Colossi thinking they might be a bit more boring than the rest.

Edit: S'more thoughts:

So there's 16 keys in that set pictured. As you can might notice its a pshopped picture from Portal 2.0. That set was designed to go across the entire top of a tenkeyless board, so this would work just the same for the Esc row version. Unfortunately, even if one was to fill their entire ZXCV row and arrow keys, that only amounts to 14 keys. Is everyone fine with me just offering a set for each profile and the one for the lower profile has a couple of extra keys so that you can pick your favorites? I could offer two different sets, one 14 and one 16, but that seems pretty dumb tbh.

LechnerDE · « **Reply #46 on:** Fri, 12 April 2013, 00:47:56 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:19:39

Thoughts?
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I would buy every single one! Twice :D

LechnerDE · « **Reply #47 on:** Fri, 12 April 2013, 00:58:09 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:30:37

If any of you guys have better poses or characters you'd rather see, toss up the suggestions, because I'm looking at the Immortal, Thor, Marauder and Colossi thinking they might be a bit more boring than the rest.

Edit: S'more thoughts:

So there's 16 keys in that set pictured. As you can might notice its a pshopped picture from Portal 2.0. That set was designed to go across the entire top of a tenkeyless board, so this would work just the same for the Esc row version. Unfortunately, even if one was to fill their entire ZXCV row and arrow keys, that only amounts to 14 keys. Is everyone fine with me just offering a set for each profile and the one for the lower profile has a couple of extra keys so that you can pick your favorites? I could offer two different sets, one 14 and one 16, but that seems pretty dumb tbh.

I think you should offer complete sets with all the designs that would work no matter if this means 15 keys or 20. Everybody can decide for himself what he wants to put on his board.

But you should try to reach a 1:1:1 ratio for the races. I'd like to put 4 Zerg keys on F1-F4, 4 Protoss keys on F5-F8 etc.

TheQsanity · « **Reply #48 on:** Fri, 12 April 2013, 01:31:25 »

phoenix is a little boring

rurushu · « **Reply #49 on:** Fri, 12 April 2013, 01:34:53 »

Quote from: Ragnorock on Thu, 11 April 2013, 22:19:39

Thoughts?
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wow... amazing!!!!!! *just realized that a pikachu is trying to disguise as a ling!!!!* :p :p

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Author Topic: [IC] StarCrafts Keycaps for ESC and F1-F12 (if possible) (Read 20358 times)