Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Saga of the Coin

My upcoming film Search Dog’s Raven is the eerie story about a search dog team named Lost Raven. It takes place seven years in the future. The film’s logo is an embossed memory coin card. This is a near future storage device like a compact flash card, only round and able to hold six hours of wide screen video. The artwork is basically a photo of Ebbey the search dog looking upwards and the words curving around her. In the film, the Lost Raven Search Dog Team uses the logo, which is also the logo for the real life animated adventures called Lost Raven. The same logo is being used for the film, by replacing LOSTRAVEN.COM with Search Dog’s Raven.
As a promotional item, we had these cool 1.5 inch token coins produced with the words LOSTRAVEN.COM. The coin company rep gave permission for the coin to appear in the film, and promised to send the signed permission form with the order. To make a long story short, we paid for the coins, received the coins, but never got signed permission. Every day they promised to send it, and didn’t. After seven weeks, I gave up. It turns out the person we dealt was no longer there and I still have no idea what happened.
So, it took me quite a while to digitally design and produce a metal coin. Perhaps it was destiny. Images don’t always translate the same in real metal, and I really prefer how my design turned out. Of course it also took me a lot longer. But what is new.

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