Polycount Store/ Stickers?

tinyworlds

Hey I just saw a luggage on Twitter with a greentooth sticker ... and I want to have one too!

It seems like the shop is gone, or is it? Couldn't find it, only old posts about it.

JordonBritz

Also curious, would totally buy a greentooth shirt or hoodie of some sort. 

Eric Chadwick

Yeah we think there's a benefit here too. But we've had difficulty getting it to work out well. 

Either the quality was inconsistent (people bought shirts but the greentooth ink was streaked with blue) or else the per-item cost was too expensive, or the shipping cost was crazy expensive.

It's hard to make it work and still be cost effective. If there's enough interest though, maybe we should start it up again. Who knows, maybe now it's different? 

Eric Chadwick

Drew has a bad habit (good habit?) of handing out stickers for free at Polycount GDC meetups. 

Prime8

Is it okay if we print/stitch greentooth shirts for ourselves in the meantime?
Maybe you could provide some templates.

Eric Chadwick

Sure! Greentooth is totally yours to play with. The only stipulation is don't sell it.

another caveman

Lets have a thread with recipes that work (and those that don't work as well I guess..)

Like website/price/product photo-review ?

Eric Chadwick

I think the last store we tried was Teespring. They delivered the streaky and low-ink colors. We removed it from the header Nov 11th, 2017.
https://teespring.com

Before that it seems to have been Shopify, which we disabled Jan 6th, 2017.
https://myshopify.com/

We tried out Spreadshirt Oct 14th, 2016. Can't recall why we dumped them. Probably too expensive.
https://www.spreadshirt.com/

Eric Chadwick

What we had at the end on Teespring. We also had a t-shirt, a women's scoop neck T, and a couple other things I think. 



I got one of the coffee mugs, still have it, and use I it at work. Polycount text on the other side. Mug is white with a black printed wraparound, stopping either side of the handle, it's not a black mug with a white handle. 

Eric Chadwick

I have a couple gold stickers, a green sticker, a fridge magnet, and this little golden guy. Gifts from @r13 (thanks man). And a green sticker on the back of the car. Just to give you a sense of merch ideas. We'll talk about starting the store up again, I think it's time for another try!

Eric Chadwick

Any suggestions from the community on possible stores? Shapeways is being discussed here, for 3d prints.

another caveman

Lets make some greentooth game and spend revenue on free swag for all

zachagreg

What about Sharkrobot? They seem to have a good track record with online creators

Francois_K

I need a new Polycount T-shirt. 

For real. 

Tits

Probably saw my luggage on twitter, I still have a couple of stickers from a GDC,
I also have very few pins left from years ago and I would love if we could get more of those at some point!

happybell

would totally love some polycount stickers! i'd buy them for my laptop and luggage

Melazee

I would love some pins! I already have a couple of Polycount stickers somewhere, but I am reluctant to actually put them on anything because it will spoil the stickers haha.

SnowInChina

polycount custom nerf gun for office wars obviously !

Eric Chadwick

Melazee said:

I would love some pins! I already have a couple of Polycount stickers somewhere, but I am reluctant to actually put them on anything because it will spoil the stickers haha.

booo!

throttlekitty

Penis tank 3d prints when?

bounchfx

i'd stlil love to see a polycount tote/messenger bag type thing!

Ashervisalis

Let's just all get Greentooth neck & face tattoos. First one to do it wins

zachagreg

Ashervisalis said:

Let's just all get Greentooth neck & face tattoos. First one to do it wins

I just got word my artist had cancellation on the 1st of August lol soo maybe

Eric Chadwick

U done been scooped

https://polycount.com/discussion/84635/opinion-for-a-tattoo

zachagreg

Gotta get it on the face/neck though. Like a polycount mask but permanent haha

Spag_Eddy

Who do I need to speak with to get some Greentooth speedos? I really need to up my beach game.

Melazee

There, I've finally stuck the sticker on something! We totally need official Polycount sketchbooks.

tinyworlds

Damn that looks so nice!!

Melazee

My kitten, Thomas, approves of the Polycount sketchbook, which means you should definitely 100% make official ones now!


Realistically, I think he was more fascinated by the cursor, but a funny snap is a funny snap and a photo of a cute kitten might just tempt you   

Spag_Eddy

My god those whiskers...this one is strong in the ways of the cute.

Melazee

Derailing the thread a bit to talk about cats lol, but yeah I love him, he's super adorable and cuddly! He's a Maine Coon though, so he's going to get massive. I think he needs a giant Polycount cat carrier perhaps?

Cody

Eric Chadwick said:

U done been scooped

https://polycount.com/discussion/84635/opinion-for-a-tattoo

It's held up pretty well almost 10 years later.



I would love to see a store pop back up. Def need a few more greentooth shirts, I'd take a hoodie and some stickers too.

Eric Chadwick

4 LIFE!

that's a nice hairy greentooth!

Prime8

Got myself some nice greentooth shirts.

Eric Chadwick

Cool! Where did you go?

Prime8

I got these from a small local industrial supplier, basically these are working cloth.

Cody

https://printaura.com/

This one is supposed to be pretty good for shirts.  

musashidan

As much as I despise the term 'merch', I badly want a sticker for my guitar case.

zachagreg

musashidan said:

As much as I despise the term 'merch', I badly want a sticker for my guitar case.

How about polycount swag? 

Justo

Eric Chadwick said:

I think the last store we tried was Teespring. They delivered the streaky and low-ink colors. We removed it from the header Nov 11th, 2017.
https://teespring.com

I loved Teespring because they would send another shirt fffffffffree if they delivered one that had low-ink colors. This way I got three shirts...for the price of one. If it's about a little miscoloring, I would rather have multiple comfortable-cotton shirts with those patterns than one. We're artists, we can even say the coloring is a design choice. I use them every week in the office nowadays. Did the reprinting of shirts affect you negatively, money-wise? Because if not, I don't see a problem with it

Eric Chadwick

People complained about the smeared colors, posted photos, others said they wouldn't purchase. I wouldn't either. But that's cool that you're ok with it, good attitude to have!

Looking into options today. 

Used to have a sticker on my old car. Just got rid of the car this week. Couldn't pry that beautiful thing off, hope the next owner likes it!

musashidan

@Eric Chadwick  have you tried just disabling that layer in Photoshop?

Eric Chadwick

Who would be willing to pay $55 for 50 stickers (minimum order)
https://www.stickermule.com/products/die-cut-roll-labels

Vote with a + on this post.

JEmerson

@Eric Chadwick Are you asking someone to purchase on behalf of PC so that you could then place on merch? I'm confused about your request.

Eric Chadwick

We tried doing this in the past, one person orders a box of merchandise, and as individuals purchase items they send them out piecemeal, but it's a mess to manage and a big time-suck. Unsustainable.

The ask was if any individuals felt that was something they'd want to buy for themselves. Sounds like not, and I don't blame you. Who really needs 50 stickers? I'll keep investigating suppliers.