How does one stencil out custom patterns for holographic designs on transparent sheets?

I assume they are cut out from an entirely holographic sheet and then transferred back onto a transparent adhesive sheet but I'm not sure exactly how any of that is achieved. I'm interested for the sake of making holographic trading card patterns

>>2606891 (OP)

Bump, really interesting thread topic and I hope someone comes through

>>2606891 (OP)

for me it's Star 2

>>2606891 (OP)

applied science made a video a while back on the complete process of how he made his own. you probably wont have the skills or equipment to replicate it (since you are asking here), but it should give you a decent starting point

ive had no other way to see this process take place so thanks, ill check it out. it was mainly curiosity but youre probably right lmao

You might be able to get a printer to talk to you about their process. You want a company like nanografix.com/markets/packaging/ or search Thomson net for commercial printers.

It seems the specific term for this process is "embossed holography" or hologram embossing more typically. I found this machine which seems to be running the process on a pretty large scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmGQo3B13ds [Embed] but you can see a lot of different styles and examples if you google hologram emboss. There is also this machine for "small run" embossing https://www.geola.com/product/embosser/

thanks ill look into this too
