Behind the production - Part #1 - The stickers design creation

The stickers drawings asked many and many hours of work and a lot of time has been spent trying to find nice animals designs and pictures as inspirations everywhere, mainly on internet.

The goal was to have cool designs in the same vein than the vintage ones.

 

 

 

The designs and ideas changed days after days, sometimes I had the good result at the 1st time, sometimes not.

 

 

After the good drawings selected Photoshop was the next step.

Drawings were cleaned, many colors were tested, emblems sizes of animals were changed a lot of time to be adjusted correctly at the shields forms, same thing for the ornament forms etc.

Some details were importants to be respected regarding the vintage ones: By example 6 animals on the 12 were designed in front views, 3x were designed inside badges, all animals designed by profile views were turned to the left etc, I tried to keep the same plan for the Lower & the Upper waves, keeping by this way better the "vintage spirit" of the line.

Also vibrant colors were selected, like the vintage ones.

A long job but a lot of fun to make all of them.

 

I was helped by two friends, "fans & hardcore collectors" of the toyline, during all the work, asking their notices and feeling regularly.

Many thanks to Arnaud Heyser & Sylvain Heyser, the help was very precious.

 

 

 

The last step was to find the good way to print all of them.

I really wanted to have the most professional result as possible like the shields themselves.

I worked directly with a Professional printer (a french one, shields were made in China)

At the begining the first printings were not good (problems with some colors, tints etc) and We had to redo the job several times to find the nice way.