Finished the Digimon TCG playmat design, and ordered one to see how it holds up - no complaints from my part and the size and portions seem to be just fine!
The design is inspired by Digimon World 2, the rooms of a dungeon crawler make up for great compartments for cards.
I've put the design available for purchase on my Ko-fi, in case anyone wants to have a playmat made themselves (I can also sneakily bypass some shipping restrictions this way). There are two options available, one being the design as is and the other also having the assets separately for customization.
Feel free to contact me if there's anything puzzling, first time putting things on sale like so :D
I got my playmat from a store simply called Custom Playmat, located in Germany, and the order process was easy, shipping fast and outcome great!
Hi we are joining our headmates in picking out a digimon partner/line that represents us. We decided to go with a split Digivolution line that we thought would be fun. Especially since there are two of us. Westley+Willow is made up of well Westley and WIllow. Westley is a ghost boy and WIllow is a skeleton girl. So this should be easy yeah? Just pick some undead/spooky digimon and call it a day? WRONG We love Birds, so we decided to go with a bird/bird related creature theme. We also decided to play with a theme that we thought would be fun, a more bestial side and a more humanoid side of things. We also play around with some digimon who have awkward stages, ones that in their first appearance(animated at least) existed outside of the Traditional Rookie/Child> Champion/Adult> ultimate/perfect> mega/ultimate line of things and tried to fit them into a place that made sense. So lets start things off with
Rookie/Child- Hyokomon
There are quite a few bird starter digimon that we like but we ultimately decided to end up with this cutie for a few reasons. The first being that we love chickens and this guy is just a excited little chicken friend. The second one is the Egg surrounding the body up a nice solid white "armor" if you will, which will be nice to help set up both "champion" stages especially since they are both armor evolutions which, armor evolutions when they first appeared made use of Digimantles or Digi-Eggs. Plus its just so cute. Any Way lets start off with the more Humanoid Evolutions shall we...
First Digivolution path:
Champion/Adult- Harpymon
Harpymon is an Armor Digimon who tends to be accessed by a Child/Rooking Digimon(usually Hawkmon but digivolution in general is weird.) using the Digi-egg of light. We obviously had to have Harpymon on our list because heck our url is Harpyboytits of course it made sense. Not to mention it offers some visual cohesion from from Hyokomon, the white hearkens back to the Egg Hyokomon wears while the red is similar to Hyokomons Orange and the Gold assimilate to it's yellow. It also offers up some nice contrast to the other champion idea we had. But first Harpymon DIgivolves to
Ultimate/Perfect- Shutumon/Zephyrmon
It is a bit Ironic that I am making Shutumon the ultimate for the *humanoid* evolution line since it was the *beast* spirit of Wind in its original Appearance. But this sleek wind warrior seemed like a very nice pic for an in between stage between the champion and mega stage. I don't have much to say except I really like the design. I guess I can add that the wing/ears are super cool imo.
Mega/Ultimate- Valkyrimon
I had a hard time picking between Valkyrimon and Ancientirismon but ultimately Valkyrimon ultimately felt like it was more cohesive with the line as a whole. The fact that it brings back a bladed weapon makes me feel like i can see this as some sort of Warp or biomerge evolution since those tend to incorporate elements even from the rookie stage. But it also had the white red and gold of Harpymon and ear-wings similar to Shutumon( although valkyrimons are a bit smaller)
Alright time for the second potential branching path.
Champion/Adult-
Nefertimon is also a digimon that tends to digivolve from the Digimantle of light( usually Gatomon using it to digivolve), you can even see some of the cat-like elements from Gatomon in this design.(which will actually be relevant later) That being said there are elements that could connect to Hyoko, obviously there is the winged element, but the Yellow, red, and white colors hearken back to both Harpymon and Hyokomon.
Ultimate/Perfect- Hipogriffmon
Hippogriffmon moves further away from Hyoko in terms of color scheme, with a primarily white and purple which it keeps from Nefertimon. It also regains some of the bird elements from the lines as a whole. It seems very stoic in nature imo. We always have been a big fan of Hippogriffs and Griffins... speaking of....
Mega/Ultimate- Griffomon
Griffomon feels like an appropriate end for this bird related four legged creature line. While it is the most visually distinct it keeps the yellow/gold motif and the massive front claws the two previous stages had. Amusingly this Griffin digimon has some elements from another mythological creature, specifically the Chimera which is often depicted with a snake like tail. But of course Chimeramon is a completely different terrifying digimon.
And there you have it Westley+Willows digimon partner. :3
Been working on a playmat design for Digimon TCG, inspired by World 2; can make the dungeon rooms depict placements for cards. Gambling when will the software just start entirely crashing when saving.
