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Custom boxed sets.
FritzWhite:
--- Quote from: Umbra on May 27, 2015, 10:37:33 PM ---Yeah I've wanted to do fancy slipcovers for my personal favorites as well; unfortunately I have a hard time making ones that are durable for some reason. I'm starting to think that double-stick tape would be more effective at holding it together than whatever glue I've been using :P
Kind of bummed because since I didn't get the Halo Anniversary remaster on launch day, I missed out on a slipcover and haven't been able to find one since.
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I might be able to get it for you. They had one at Lamestop today. They let me have some manuals for free. I'll try to remember to ask if I can have the slip.
CMDLineKing:
If you know about video game box protectors are, I think something similar that holds a variety of DVD's would work well for this. I looked around a bit and found a few clear "gift boxes" that hold 3-4 DVD's. You could print it on card stock and inlay the clear box.. :) Might even be worth sizing them to hold the 3x DVD slip case boxes for the GTA and Metal Gear collections.. :-P
Umbra:
Yeah the clear gift box idea sounds good; I'll have to check it out. As for slipcovers, seems I missed out on Theatrhythm as well. Just grabbed a copy today and the same thing happened :P
Umbra:
Quick update: Made a box just to see how it would turn out. Seems decent enough for a quick half-hour project, and it fits in well enough on the shelf.
The inside isn't as pretty, however. Had to reinforce the sides and bottom since I made it a touch too big. I know it looks pretty ramshackle, but for my first box I'm okay with it. I'll probably try and improve it later. Not sure what to do on the design so I settled for the "it's Final Fantasy, go minimal" look for starters.
Working on ideas for slipcovers now. I'm not sure what to do for some because I don't really have that much ink to freely print covers, and none of the printing services around here will print for me since box art has 'copyrighted material' on the document. :-\
wiggy:
^ very much so like the minimal design you've got there. Pretty much can't go wrong pairing a simple design with the FF series :)
I've done this on a couple of occasions. The material you use will partially depend on how substantial the box needs to be. For instance, I made a slip cover style box for the Mario advance games. They're small and light, so I just used heavy paper stock, no backer board or anything. For bigger boxes like that FF dvd case box, I'd go with something closer to a card stock. And then if you want to go all out and make a box with hinges and such so you can open and close it, then you'll want to use some sort of paperboard and either an adhesive-backed printer paper, or normal paper with some spray adhesive and "skin" the board with it.
The bigger the box, and the thicker the stock, the more planning you'll have to do. It can take a lot of prototyping to get right. I usually start off making protos with cheap-ass poster board.
If you end up with more questions, then feel free to ask me directly. Designing and building packaging is a fairly large portion of my job ;)