I spent a couple of hours recreating the original japanese card back in a SVG (scalable vector graphics) in Inkscape to create custom cards. There aren't any worthwhile scans online that don't come out terrible on a printer and AI upscaling ruins the text. For my personal collection of cards I'm printing with a master ball and QR code on this back but made the original because I had already gone so far with this project. I thought I would share it in case someone else wanted it.
This isn't perfect. I couldn't get the emboss on the letters surrounding the pokeball so I just used a gradient outline. The text on the ribbon doesn't match up perfectly. The background is a tad weird because I had to trace bitmap the whole card by brightness and do some minor fixups. The roughness around the light shines might needed to be blurred, but this expanded outside the image and made scaling for a printer a hassle. All text was converted to paths so anyone could open them up. If you want to edit them you will have to recreate them. There are definitely a lot of alignment issues.
The fonts used were
Surrounding pokeball - ITC Serif Gothic Heavy
Ribbon - ITC Serif Gothic Heavy
Copyright - SquareSlab711 Lt BT
I am trying to create a replica Illustrator (pikachu trainer card) for someone for christmas but all the images I can find are terrible. If anyone has a good scan or idea to share that would be awesome.
Also do whatever you want with this, no credit needed or anything.
This isn't perfect. I couldn't get the emboss on the letters surrounding the pokeball so I just used a gradient outline. The text on the ribbon doesn't match up perfectly. The background is a tad weird because I had to trace bitmap the whole card by brightness and do some minor fixups. The roughness around the light shines might needed to be blurred, but this expanded outside the image and made scaling for a printer a hassle. All text was converted to paths so anyone could open them up. If you want to edit them you will have to recreate them. There are definitely a lot of alignment issues.
The fonts used were
Surrounding pokeball - ITC Serif Gothic Heavy
Ribbon - ITC Serif Gothic Heavy
Copyright - SquareSlab711 Lt BT
I am trying to create a replica Illustrator (pikachu trainer card) for someone for christmas but all the images I can find are terrible. If anyone has a good scan or idea to share that would be awesome.
Also do whatever you want with this, no credit needed or anything.
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