#ordered a standee for it on Vograce

[dragi-and-dodge]

Finished it. Love them~

Pirate Asura needs a Mermaid Taisha.

#onmyoji #onmyoji taishakuten #onmyoji Asura #AsuraxTaishakuten #taishakuten asura #taishakuten #asura #have been drawing this on and off for three weeks #cant believe i finished it #ordered a standee for it on Vograce #cant wait to see #art

[ariespetal]

Wanted to try drawing Mikan in her remnant form

#might turn this into an acrylic standee next time i order stuff from vograce... #if anyone would be interested #mikan tsumiki #remnants of despair #sdr2 #danganronpa #my art #danganronpa fanart

[corffee]

Important update:

Due to Vograce taking a new year holiday (Feb 4th - Feb 14th), I will be ordering the first batch of standees later today. If any orders are placed after today until the closing date, then it will shipped later than the end of February. Please, if you don’t want to wait, then please order now!

Shop here!

#sonic fan merch #sonic merchandise #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonadow #sonic prime #sonic #sth #fan merch #ko fi shop #digital art #acrylic standee

[majimasleftasscheek]

hi i got my ramen shop standee and the arcade machine keychain a while ago and they are AMAZING quality, they arrived just in time for a convention i cosplaued majima at and it was such a fun little addition to my bag. if you don't mind me asking what manufacturer do you use for all your stuff :0? they're super high quality compared to some manufacturers I've seen people recommend

I use vograce! it's not everyone's fav choice from what I gather from various other creators but my personal experiences so far (and I've ordered so much crap lol) is very good. they're a lil pricier than others too but I go to them cuz their products are good, they have a decent moq, and their customer service is very helpful/responsive

if you're interested in acrylic stuff, I would rec them. they have a ton of other products too that I haven't necessarily tried yet but they also offer sample services (sometimes free, sometimes a fee depending on what it is) so that's super helpful. and if you ask em, they'll provide proofs of items before they make em so you can check the art or whatnot (very helpful to make sure they don't make something backwards lol esp if there's text involved)

rn I'm having them test some buttons and I'll be going to them for my booby mousepads too cuz me and a friend collab'd to make some and they turned out very good

#I've tried to do other places but they didn't even answer my emails lol so tbh I'm happy to pay a lil more for the convenience and service #plus I always have a stupid amount of questions that I'm sure a baby could figure out but they're happy to help dkjslgkjlsgd #also every month I make some standees for a patron of mine and it's helpful to have a low moq cuz I don't need like 20 of someone's oc #so it's really good even if you just wanna do personal stuff in small quantities #I'm actually testing a lot of their acrylic types using my fav one piece characters kldfsjjkld gotta make more shit for my cringe shrines #blog mod

[ikimaru]

Hi hi, I'm sorry if this is a weird ask but I'm very curious as to what manufacturer you use for your merch? Specifically, the keychains and standees

All of the items I've bought from you have been very good quality and I'm looking to make some of my own but have no idea where to start

hi! it's junocharms on twitter, I've also had some stuff from vograce here and there but it seems I always run into trouble of sorts with them lol so ye I mostly work with the first one

there are a lot of places doing charms, stands etc tbh, you can even browse on alibaba and try out different places! u basically contact whichever manufacturer you want with what you want to order and they'll give you a quotation, once you confirm that, you send them your files and proceed with the order

for the charms it's something like: which quantity you want, which size (mine are 2.5"), clear or glitter epoxy etc, you'll usually want double sided image so the back of the charm isn't blank, and double acrylic board (which means both sides of the charm have acrylic encasing the image)

(if it's a charm used as display u can get away with just one acrylic board but the back might get scratched doing normal use instead, so I always get double board just in case, for the stands I do single board/single image though since they are for display and only meant to be viewed from one angle haha)

good luck! 👍

#Sunnyasks

[eirian]

hey phandom

i order all of my products from vograce, so if you want to look at their options and suggest anything i'll see what i can do!

#danny phantom #phandom #dp

[sovonight]

I have an incredibly weird question, but who do you manufacture your 2-inch standees through? I've been looking for a place to make them for my dnd characters, and yours turned out so nice.

i'm guessing you're only looking to get 1 or 2 standees per design? my manu wouldn't be useful in that case since they have a higher MOQ--even i don't order OC merch with them because i don't know what i'd do with all the extras.

the most straightforward place i can recommend is zap!creatives (which is where i printed this charm/standee!). it's not going to have a double-sided base like my dipper standee, and it's probably going to take 2 months to get to you, but the process is pretty painless and you'll probably get an extra copy thrown in from their quality check. they should also be pretty responsive if you have questions or if anything goes wrong.

the second option is ordering off vograce, but their quality can be unpredictable and their customer service can be poor. third option is to go on alibaba and find a manu who's willing to print one-offs, but that's pretty involved, and i wouldn't recommend it unless you're planning on making and selling merch.

#sovo answers

[anime-grimmy-art]

Hi! ;v; May I please ask, how did you make your Vograce standees? I want to make one with my OCs but I have no idea how I’m supposed to measure the millimeters... or how to submit the artwork, like if it’s all just on one file? or if I have to submit the base design separately from the upright designs? I tried reading through their instructions and I didn’t understand, and when I reached to them for help I didn’t get a response for a month, so I’m kind of at a complete loss and would appreciate any tips you might have. Thank you for reading!

Hello anon!

As of right now I cannot reach my file and tell you exactly what I did, but in general what I essentially did was put the drawing and the design for the base in one file and then added suggestions for cutting lines on a seperate layer. If you have more than one upright design, it seems that only one file has to have the base included and when ordering, you essentially have to order 2 standess, just with one having the meassurements for the base at 0.

As for the millimeters, you can usually change your sizes in your art progam to millimeters. If you want to know how big that is irl, Id suggest just using google to convert your meassurements into millimeters.

I saw youtube video that goes over the process in a relatively good way:

I do hope this helped you out a bit. Normally, if your stuff doesn't work out, someone from vograce will contact you and check with you anyways.

Also, lastly, just a small tip, be sure to check your CMYK values as well, cos boy oh howdy, I forgot bout it and lost a looot of colour haha

#ask #vograce #standee #i hope this helps lol

[cigardoesart]

Hi I hope it's okay if I ask, how do you make your standees? ;v; I get lost when it comes to submitting the art to the manufacturer, like... do I put the base design + upright designs all on one single file? Or do I make one file for the base, one for the upright, etc. and label them as such and then submit one at a time? Do you recommend any specific manufacturers? Thank you for reading!

Hey there!! I use ZapCreatives right now for my standees, Vograce does them as well. If you click the link there, Zap provide templates files and instructions for you to download on their site on how to set up a standee to submit!

It’s a good idea as well to make some kind of mockup of what you’d like your design to look like, they also offer a printing of just one standee if you don’t want to commit to a big order, hopefully this is helpful to you :D

[avomakiart]

Hi I hope it's okay if I ask, how do you make your standees? ;w; I just want to make one standee for myself of my OCs, but I get totally lost when it comes to sending/laying out the actual files to the manufacturer. Do I put the base design + upright designs all on one single file? Or do I make one file for the base, one for the upright, etc. and label them as such and then submit one at a time? Do you recommend any specific manufacturers? Thank you for reading!

Hi! 

It’s totally fine to ask! I’m happy to share. :) 

The manufacturer I used for my standees was Zap Creatives. They’re great with communication, and I’ve been very satisfied with their product’s print quality. They have options as well for small orders of 1 unit and 10 units. 

Vograce is an alternative, but I haven’t tried them and so can’t personally vouch for their print quality. Depending on how many units you order and where you live re: shipping fees (Zap is in the UK, though offers free shipping for orders large enough. Vograce is in China), you may want to weigh options.  

So! Here's how I make standees with Zap:

1. Go to the website , pick a standee size, find the "Artwork Setup" tab, and download the templates they have in your preferred format. There should be one template document for the uprights and one for the base. The size I chose for mine was 90mm x 125mm:

2. Paint your uprights. With the template’s dimensions, plan what goes where.  In a separate document (preferably) larger than the template and no less than 300dpi, make the artwork. Keep the edges of your shapes as clean as possible, so they will cut crisply and not show the white layer beneath when they’re printed. 

3. When the uprights are done, place them in the template doc. Place the tabs on each one. All of the uprights go in the same doc, on separate artwork layers. 

4. Once you’ve decided where the uprights will go, make the shape of the base in the base document and place the tab holes for your uprights accordingly. Paint the base art with the uprights’ placements in mind. 

5. Prepare both your template documents. Use the instructions they have in the Artwork Setup page on the website. Make your shapes for the white backing and acrylic cut lines on each piece. Don’t forget to flip all your shapes in the documents or they will be printed backward.  

6. Send in the docs with your order.

I hope that's helpful!👌

#acrylic standee #avomakiasks #merch

[lyradaisical]

Excuse me for a bit, but I’m going to word-vomit here.

If you follow me on YouTube, I had previously made two Vograce review videos. I was set to make an update after my second one because there were some issues with my orders that I was working with customer service to fix.

Long story short, I have decided not to accept the resolutions they offered me. Ultimately, the biggest thing I lost, out of this whole situation, was my time. For anyone who is interested in reading about what happened or if there is any artist who is still debating what manufacturer to order from, buckle in because we're going for a loooong ride. I'm going to touch on details that I didn't cover in my review, mainly how this began and my experience with their service afterward.

First things first, Vograce reached out to me asking me to review their products. They offered three different options for compensation:

$150 coupon to use on their site

$70 coupon + $50 cash

$70 cash

I picked the second option because I was interested in checking out their stuff and the $50 cash was nice because I knew that the shipping cost was going to bite me in the ass. They sent me a list of things I was required to mention in the review video, which all seemed harmless enough. I've had another company reach out to me before and their demands were much shadier, so Vograce seemed legit to me.

Since I didn't have any designs to order at the moment, they shipped me a sample pack to review. I had to order the sample pack, which was $9.90 and the shipping cost was a whopping $20.18. I was refunded this cost. The products in the sample pack were genuinely very nice and my review reflected my honest opinions about them. Because of that, I was excited to place my first order using the compensation they sent me.

Order #1 January 21, 2022

6x 5 acrylic charm designs with no special coating

6x 1 acrylic charm design with star holographic on both sides

3x A6 spiral notebooks

3x A6 leatherette notebooks

Cost: $90.45

Shipping: $41.21

Total: $131.66

Out of pocket cost: ~$15

Since they liked my first review, they came back and asked me to do another review based on the order I put in. This time, I opted for the $150 coupon because there were some other things I wanted to check out.

Order #2 February 20, 2022

3x acrylic standees

10x 15mm washi tape

10x 30mm washi tape

100x 7cm heart memo pads

Cost: $156.57

Shipping: $51.17

Total: $207.74

Out of pocket cost: $57.74

Grand total spent: ~$73

I received my first order on March 21, 2022, so it took about two months. I gave them some leeway because Lunar New Year was within that time so they were on holiday. I let them know that I received the package and asked if my second one was coming any time soon because if it was, I could wait for it and review those items as well, even though I didn't have to. I just really wanted the review to be useful to fellow artists. My second order arrived on March 31, 2022.

At this point, I finally took the time to unpack and check everything. What I received was:

6x holographic acrylic charms

35x standard acrylic charms (7 each of the 5 designs)

3x A6 spiral notebooks

3x A6 leatherette notebooks

3x acrylic standees

11x 15mm washi tape

8x 30mm washi tape

50x sticky notepads

I'm not going to go into detail over what was wrong since I spent a ton of time doing so in my review video here. But basically, the notebooks were poor quality, dots printed only on one side of the page, the page count was wrong, I receive 50 sticky notepads instead of 100 memo pads, 8 instead of 10 of the 30mm washi tape, etc.

(Also, if anyone who is knowledgeable about shipping costs from China could confirm with me if these shipping costs were legitimate or not, that would be great! I had been suspicious of them overcharging on shipping to boost their profits, but since I don't have any actual knowledge on that, I won't say for sure.)

I spent about two days gathering my thoughts, images, videos, and screenshots and then made the review video. I reached out to Vograce and told them that I posted the review and that there were several issues with my order. As to why I made the review before contacting them, I felt that it would be a better reflection of what you could expect when receiving your order (in this case, a lot of errors). I also did not want to be coerced into not making a less-than-stellar review.

They apologized for the mistakes and then asked me to delete the review. Apparently, they didn’t like how critical it was despite the fact that I tried to be understanding about everything and was told by friends that my review was TOO nice. The way it was worded screamed 'scummy' to me. "Could you delete the video, first?" As if them fixing the order would be dependent on me deleting the video.

I replied back and said that I wouldn’t delete my review. I may have been compensated but I’m still going to be honest. And let's be real, my time is worth a lot more than what they sent me, considering how much time I spent working on the videos. I told them that I trusted they would allow me to be honest and that if I deleted it, it would be very clear that they’re only out to buy positive reviews.

They backtracked, of course, and told me that they prefer honesty as well and that they simply wanted me to add on to the review after they fixed any issues because they pride themselves on their customer service. To which I told them that I mentioned in my review that I would give an update. I even stated that I had faith that they would fix it. So they had no excuse to tell me to delete it.

Anywho, we get past this and try to work on resolving my order. I pointed out all the issues they had: wrong info on their website, wrong templates provided, broken pages, etc. Let me tell you, my husband was not pleased whatsoever about this because normally companies PAID people to do what I did (finding errors, etc.) and I was doing it for them for FREE. He was even more so irritated because he is certain I got ripped off on shipping (since his line of work has him knowledgable about the Asia and Pacific regions). But whatever, you know. I really just wanted there to be a decent company out there that we artists could buy reasonably priced custom merch from, and if Vograce could fix these things, that’d be great.

So we went back and forth and my god was this painful. There are obviously several people that handle correspondence, which isn’t inherently a problem, but the thing here was that there was no communication between them and they didn’t bother going through the backlog to get an understanding of the problem. Some of them also aren't as good with English as others. I had to repeat myself several times. All I simply wanted was replacement products but for some reason, it felt like I was pulling teeth. 

For example, they were utterly confused about the memo pads. I was questioned about shape and design several times. I used their template. I sent the design. What is there to be confused about?

For the spiral notebooks, where the image was stretched, they supposedly fixed their template and told me to send in the design using the new template. But when I looked at it, it still did not look like the right sized template for printing an A6 book. I measured the book, I got measurements for everything, and got back to them but they were still adamant that they were right so I went “You know what? Forget the notebooks. We clearly aren’t going to agree on this so I don’t want them.” They offered a $5 coupon to cover it:

Fast forward almost a month later. Honestly, I was pretty pissed. “How are you these days?” I was expecting my replacement order to be delivered by now only for them to be like “Oh, turns out we actually can’t make it.”

I replied and asked if there was a reason why they couldn’t be made. I didn’t pick a custom design. AGAIN I picked the heart which is one of the standard designs. And the listing was still on their website. The reply:

I was screaming at this point, really. Never have I ever worked with a supposed professional company that was this incompetent. I didn't bother responding to this and just left it. This morning when I checked my phone, "Rachel" had gotten back to me:

I was just so done at this point because I knew that getting the items I wanted was no longer an option and I didn't want to buy from them anymore after this experience so a coupon was worthless, not to mention I'd have to put even more money out to cover shipping.

This was the reply that I sent before blocking them:

I believe that it will be best for us to end this collaboration here. I do not want the sticky notes or the coupon, as I am no longer comfortable with ordering from this business.

I have to say that I am disappointed with this experience. I really wanted to like this company. There is a level of irresponsibility and unprofessionalism within this business that I find unacceptable—lack of quality checking, mistakes on the website, poor communication amongst the team, offering products that aren't available, etc.

I'm not impressed with the blame towards the factory. A responsible business would put in the effort to find out what their manufacturer is capable of and would ensure this by getting samples of what can be made as well as ensuring the quality of said items. Instead, what we have here is a business that makes assumptions of what they can sell and advertises them for sale without knowing if the item can even be made or is of good quality.

Personally, I feel that it would be best for you to stick to the acrylic charms until you can reorganize and ensure that you can manage selling the other products. My statement from my review still stands: I can recommend this company for acrylic products and charms, but not for the other products.

I wish this company good luck in improving for the future.

I'm just so disappointed because I really really did like their charms (the clasps!) But because I happened to try out the other products, I inadvertently found out just how poorly this business is run.

I know many artists have had very pleasant experiences with Vograce and I totally get that. I had very pleasant experiences with them too, where the acrylic products are concerned. I don't want to deter people from writing this business off altogether because they did try to resolve my issues. It's just that it wasn't something that could be solved. But for me personally, I don't think I will buy from them again. If they do manage to get their act together after all of this, then that will be great for them. But the way they push responsibility onto others (their factory, the customers) just rubs me the wrong way.

#rant #review #vograce

[scribesofcalamity]

I put in my first vograce order ever this past week....I ordered some lanyards and some acrylic standees. Anyways, I got my proofs this morning and realized, quite suddenly, that I had ordered 60 each of the lanyard designs, not six.

Like...I thought it was 8 dollars a piece, but it was actually 8 dollars for a set of 10! So when I put in six, it actually meant 60.

Oops.

#personal #file that under whoopsies #well #at least ill have stock for a while #ive been so tired that was a big miss on my part hahaha

[doctorguilty]

@smilesobrien

ohoho glow in the dark you say? I actually recently did a test order of some ghostface acrylic standees!

vograce does offer glow in the dark charms as well! If that kind of thing is something you want for awful hosp characters, I can absolutely design some

#seth speaks

[corffee]

Reminder: 5 more hours left until the Prime Sonadow Acrylic Standee pre-order closes! After it closes at 1 PM PST, I will order the second batch. As for the first batch, they have been ordered and still on production, due to Vograce’s holiday. Once they are shipped, I’ll send out a message. In the meantime, I’ll be creating the next batch of standees ;) (Hint: it’ll release on the first anniversary of a sonic game)

Shop now!!!

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sonic prime #sonadow #sonic #sth #sonic merchandise #sonic fan merch #fan merch #kofi shop #digital fanart

[eirian]

so im realizing something incredible about my standee order

for the super sonic standees, i redid them to where they would have only four "uprights" (so the pieces that stick up) because if i ordered each chaos emerald + sonic upright individually it would have been hella expensive just to make One. but apparently i forgot to update the zip file with this new design so i accidentally sent the old design to them. but yknow what they did???? they actually went through with the old design and counted each upright as like, part of the same upright??? which i HOPE they will keep, and not charge me extra later lol. if they do keep this im going to be SO ecstatic fr

it looks like this

the sizes they listed looked a little weird but the previews look correct so im gonna trust them. if it turns out wonky i'll contact them to let them know and we can figure out how to make it work but i havent gone bad with vograce so far so i think they got my back

[anime-grimmy-art]

What did you use to make your submas standee? Or rather who.?

I ordered it on a website called vograce. They make custom merch stuff in low quantities that are actually quite affordable