{"id":109,"date":"2025-06-01T04:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/?p=109"},"modified":"2025-06-02T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:39:44","slug":"intro-to-design-part-iii-1-personal-trading-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Design Part IV-1: Personal Trading Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Immortalize your character on a trading card! You know you want to. Use the Visual Thinkery Trading Card Remixer (https:\/\/remixer.visualthinkery.com\/r\/1YgU14YCP4e7puXTdMxS), add an image, customize the colors and change the text as necessary.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shibark, a creature created by me, paired on a card meant to mimic the stats on a Pokemon TCG card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Shibark are curious nature spirits that take the form of a fox when encountering humans. Many farmers leave offerings out for them in times of famine in hopes of bringing stronger crops. In truth, while their presence does bring a minor boost in vitality to nearby plants, it’s rarely enough to greatly impact a damaged harvest. It was once commonly believed that ancient humans took inspiration from Shibark’s tail when designing the first farming scythes. However, new historical records appear to indicate that this is not the case, and that the similar shapes are pure coincidence. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shibark tend to be quite friendly with others, including most humans. However, they are also quite spiteful, and if they feel that someone has harmed the environment around them, or if they deem their offerings inadequate, they will single out something belonging to that individual and either steal or destroy it. Because of this, areas frequented by Shibark often develop cultures focused on conservation and spiritual practices. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the world urbanizes and becomes less and less intertwined with nature, Shibark have become quite an uncommon encounter in most places around the world. As such, many cities and suburbs have lost their traditions of providing offerings and sanctity to these spirits, and thus vandalisms caused by them become more frequent. Nowadays, many places consider them to be pests despite their usually kind demeanor. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shibark is a design that I personally made two years ago, and just recently redesigned to be more cute and well-drawn. I originally made them as my first ever fan-made Pok\u00e9mon, and now intend to use them as one of the first partners in the eventual game that I plan to make in the far future. The name is a combination of Shiba Inu and Bark (both the dog kind of bark and tree kind of bark), and it’s meant to look like it’s inspired by Japanese mythology, as well as the game Okami and its playable character Amaterasu. Their eyes are meant to mimic the thin eyes on your traditional Japanese fox mask, and while I can’t show it off incredibly in the photo, those markings on its body are intended to lightly glow when under stress. I hope that this design serves this assignment well and is something that can be appreciated, as it’s one of the designs that I’m most proud of making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/assignments.ds106.us\/assignments\/personal-trading-card\/ “Immortalize your character on a trading card! You know you want to. Use the Visual Thinkery Trading Card Remixer (https:\/\/remixer.visualthinkery.com\/r\/1YgU14YCP4e7puXTdMxS), add an image, customize the colors and change the text as necessary.” Shibark are curious nature spirits that take the form of a fox when encountering humans. Many farmers leave offerings out for them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[11,19,20],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","category-intro-to-design","tag-assignmentidea","tag-designassignments","tag-designassignments2856"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nrojas.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}