{"id":1905,"date":"2026-08-23T04:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2026-08-29T09:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T09:10:39","slug":"nft-3d-playing-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/nft-3d-playing-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"NFT 3D Playing Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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AREA15\u00a0 I\u00a0 Las Vegas\u00a0 I\u00a0 2022<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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On The Decks is a collection of unique NFTs minted on the Polygon blockchain, paying homage to the city AREA15 calls home: Las Vegas. The concept reimagines a full deck of playing cards through AREA15\u2019s own artwork and characters, with each card doubling as a key to a real, unique in-venue experience for the holder and their friends \u2014 blurring the line between digital collectible and physical access pass. The Hearts suit launched first, with the remaining suits designed to follow.<\/p>

I began by illustrating each card design in Illustrator as a flat vector, then brought each into Cinema 4D for dimensionality and individual animation. The result was exported as a web-enabled, interactive .gltf file for every card, allowing collectors to tilt, rotate, and explore each piece in full 3D directly from the collection page.<\/p>

Each card was built around a mirrored, symmetrical layout in the tradition of classic playing cards, but reimagined through a full cyber-Vegas HUD aesthetic \u2014 glowing circuit-board linework, coordinate readouts, and sci-fi interface framing standing in for traditional card border ornamentation. At the center of every card sits a fully modeled 3D character unique to that card, like the glowing-eyed robot figure anchoring the Jack of Hearts \u2014 small AREA15-branded characters that gave the deck its own cast, turning a familiar 52-card format into a set of collectible digital personalities.<\/p>

Release Party \u2014 The Portal<\/strong><\/p>

To launch the collection, we threw a release party inside The Portal, AREA15’s 360-degree projection-mapped room, where the animated cards were blown up to massive scale and projected across the entire space. I created the mapped scene elements for the room, along with the graphic design and animated flyer\/promo video for the event \u2014 all built around AREA15’s full cyber-Vegas visual language to tie the physical launch party directly back to the digital collection. The night featured Sama’ Abdulhadi on the decks, along with local support.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\n\t\t\n\t<\/video>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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AREA15\u00a0 I\u00a0 Las Vegas\u00a0 I\u00a0 2022 On The Decks is a collection of unique NFTs minted on the Polygon blockchain, paying homage to the city AREA15 calls home: Las Vegas. The concept reimagines a full deck of playing cards through AREA15\u2019s own artwork and characters, with each card doubling as a key to a real, unique in-venue experience for the holder and their friends \u2014 blurring the line between digital collectible and physical access pass. The Hearts suit launched first, with the remaining suits designed to follow. I began by illustrating each card design in Illustrator as a flat vector, then brought each into Cinema 4D for dimensionality and individual animation. The result was exported as a web-enabled, interactive .gltf file for every card, allowing collectors to tilt, rotate, and explore each piece in full 3D directly from the collection page. Each card was built around a mirrored, symmetrical layout in the tradition of classic playing cards, but reimagined through a full cyber-Vegas HUD aesthetic \u2014 glowing circuit-board linework, coordinate readouts, and sci-fi interface framing standing in for traditional card border ornamentation. At the center of every card sits a fully modeled 3D character unique to that card, like the glowing-eyed robot figure anchoring the Jack of Hearts \u2014 small AREA15-branded characters that gave the deck its own cast, turning a familiar 52-card format into a set of collectible digital personalities. Release Party \u2014 The Portal To launch the collection, we threw a release party inside The Portal, AREA15’s 360-degree projection-mapped room, where the animated cards were blown up to massive scale and projected across the entire space. I created the mapped scene elements for the room, along with the graphic design and animated flyer\/promo video for the event \u2014 all built around AREA15’s full cyber-Vegas visual language to tie the physical launch party directly back to the digital collection. The night featured Sama’ Abdulhadi on the decks, along with local support. VIEW ONLINE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,58,37,52,46,50,56,36,47],"tags":[42,39,40],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d","category-all","category-animation","category-area15","category-event-flyers","category-immersive-experiences","category-interactive","category-video","category-visuals","tag-cinema-4d","tag-adobe-illustrator","tag-adobe-premiere-pro"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iluxstudios.com\/create\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}