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Originally Posted by danr |  | | | | | | | | | art will be no problem.
Just wondering what is possible now, certainly process can affect my end result, especially if it's something cool. | |  | |  | |
Art is a function of this industrial design. The art defines how it should be printed.
If you want what's new, that's not free reign, that's the shirt style and a new inks. If you what new, speak to ink manufacturers about their new special effects inks and design your own shirt. If you want to exploit belt printing, you design the art to optimize the shirt.
When I printed on sleeves before they were sewn, we designed art that showed birch trees (an up and down image) all around the shirt at an angle with a skier in powder near the lower right of the shirt.
For Speedo we made underwater designs with fish, starfish, mermaids and a treasure chest with a background design that was like water that got darker as it moved up to 1" from the neck where there was a diving buoy on the left shoulder.
For Lange Ski we had penguins with skis, climbing up the left arm, sliding down a ski boot shaped jumping ramp and landing on the right cuff - then walking back over to the left sleeve again.
We printed many high res halftones of what the whole shirt would look like when it was wet and worn by a buff guy or girl. I've seen this reborn in Japan with daring girls wearing skirts that look like you can see through them.
For zoos - animals walking all around the bottom of a shirt in line.
After tie dying a shirt in a blue vee neck pattern, printing water animals in the vee neck.
Fake embroidery using puff or suede.
Halloween is 60 days away, think skeletons in faint glow-in-the-dark, although this now seems to be a foil cliche lately.
If given free reign... 
