More foil alt ID proxies! Apologies if the Vine makes you dizzy, I wanted to show off the reflections and maybe got a bit too animated.

Ever since I saw that first foil proxy in the flesh at Nationals, I’ve been interested in making a custom-to-me Cybernetics Division ID. Before the SanSan Cycle started, this was the ID I was most excited by (I love 40/15s in general), and tried it a bit at the beginning of the summer. I found that I didn’t like the big agenda/Punitive Counterstrike approach that everyone seemed to be taking with it, so I shelved it. I played a series of NEARPAD NEH variants all summer, and while I’ll miss the ease of the Astrotrain, I think it’s time I moved on to other IDs.

HB is not a faction I’ve ever really played much of, other than trying out a little Engineering the Future when I first started. And so, CD gets revisited. I’m going to an ANRPC tournament this coming weekend, and I’m now thinking I’ll run either this (probably something close to the Spooky Cybernetics, which was the top-finishing CD at Nationals) or maybe a janky-but-fun Chronos Protocol.

So, here’s a new alt ID card, on foil to hopefully heighten the “chrome”-ness of the ID’s theme. I love making my own custom IDs just as a way of personalizing my play, but I don’t share the image files because I’m not using art with the artists’ permission. I don’t have much of a problem making something for personal use with art I scrounge up from the internet (and showing that to people), but I don’t want to be distributing those files.

That said, here are some of the sources I culled from to Photoshop this ID art together:

The background comes from this picture (found on Pinterest, I don’t know much about its provenance); I changed “Cyber City” to “Chrome City,” which you can only barely make out in the Vine above.



The cybernetic arm is from Akira , actually, though I’m not sure if this particular image came from the manga or film production art.



, actually, though I’m not sure if this particular image came from the manga or film production art. I used the Netrunner font to add a little HB logo to the arm, which you can only barely see here.

font to add a little HB logo to the arm, which you can only barely see here. I did some lighting effects in Photoshop to give the cartoony arm a bit more visual depth, and look a bit more 3D.

I found that the arm didn’t go all the way to the bottom of the background, so to, uh, “flesh” out the image, I put in a shadowy version of this guy, who might be the least cyberpunk human on the planet.

The rest is just shifting the background colors a bit more toward HB-purple hues, and then plopping it in the template.

Anyway, this is my latest experiment. I’m sure I’ll have more to share down the road.