After speaking with the Mint throughout the weekend and this morning, it seems we need to make a few changes to the design.
Due to the intricacies of the design and the look, it seems that a 2D design would be the better route to go according to the mint.
The main reason for this is that with a 3D design the die is created by a sculptor. The current design we have is flat and does not show depth that is required for the 3D design. Consequently, the sculptor would then be creating the design by himself almost since there are no references for him to work with.
The 2D design is created using pantographing where they take the final image and have it drawn by a fine pencil. There are some details that would not get picked up such as the lines in the acorn.
When looking at the design it should scaled down to the actual size that the round is going to be, 39mm. This will give us the best idea of what the round will look like when it is finished. Some of the super detailed lines will get missed.
It seems that it will be best to clear out the fish from the middle and the roots. Also, after speaking with the mint, they suggested to clean up the foliage as much of it will blend together if left alone.
After working with the design for a few hours earlier, here is what I came up with. Of course, it needs to get approved by the community and @welshstacker.
Here is the design before adding in the animals
We may still want to clean up some of the foliage along the edges!
What do you all think?
Update #1 from @welshstacker (thicker and more branches)
Update #2 from @welshstacker and @sevinwilson (still working on adding more leaves)
I love the design concept, but the tree looks a lot less healthy than it did before
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That’s a good point. We could take away from of the random limbs and fill in with better looking branches that fill it out some more?
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I'm not much of an artist and not sure from a die standpoint why the other design is not stampable, but in my humble opinion, the tree needs to be filled out with some signs of life. The design above looks like a lot of dead branches.
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We have continued to add some foliage, but in a different way. Look out for an update today!
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I have to agree that I liked the last version much better. The tree looks like its not doing so hot in this post.
I wonder if making a 2 oz coin with a greater diameter than the 1 oz would help with the ability to produce this previous more detailed edit version? :
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It may, but there are some additional costs that would be associated with creating something other than a 2oz round. I will add some more leaves and we will see what it looks like
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For sure, I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I assume you mean other than a 1oz round, i will see if i can help somehow. Blessings.
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At this time we are going to continue with the 1oz round. We are trying to fill it out some with more foliage.
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I tend to agree with @elamental on this one. The edited version above looks so much nicer than the new sickly version. I understand why the edits had to be made but man, I was so stoked on that design. I kept talking about how perfect it was.. so of course I'm not tooo thrilled about the changes that have to be made here. Too good to be true I guess? :'(
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There would have been so much overlap once the mint created the die it would have very difficult to make out what a lot of it was.
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Thank you for your continued support of SteemSilverGold
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I like the fish looking like leaves, it has a much more spooky look but it is going to look.... (my thesaurus doesn't have the word im looking for so ill make one up).... Magfishicent.
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Prefer foliage in the first but as you said it’s difficult with the mint. Still be a great looking coin if the foliage being cleaned up though.
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We can have the foliage, but they suggested to clean it up some! Maybe more pronounced leaves or better branches?
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Yeah more pronounced leaves I think be better. Like @matthewwarn said the tree does look less healthy.
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I don't like this version as much as the last one. The fish just seem out of place here. I think the tree all by itself is beautiful enough.
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Even with the updates??
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I likeed the last update with the fish in The Roots of the tree and the school of fish swimming under the branches.
I don't really like the fish inside the branches/top of the tree.
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Ahhh I see! I was a fan of that to, but the mint really wanted to stray away from it
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glad this is still going... will be my first purchase when back stateside
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I think that cleaning up the edges will help. Would you also want to swap out the leaves on the edge for minnows? I like the fish in the tree as leaves too... #1, still looks good... Cleaner lines on the edges, and go. :-)
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We have done that with a lot of it! Stayed away from leaves some by adding some small that may be fish and more fish
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Cool... It's pretty awesome. I think whatever tweaks you guys end up making will be great.
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