Stinkee Candle: A Parody of Yankee Candle
This project started off with a planning sheet, supplied by Mrs. T. On this sheet, descriptions of Yankee Candles were given in order to help create our own creative description of our Stinkee Candle. In addition, on the back of the sheet, we had to think of adjectives and create similes and metaphors that revolved around our Stinkee Candle scent. The last step was creating a name for the candle based off of adjectives, similes, and metaphors. One of the most important steps in this project was creating a collage in Photoshop that included three pictures of objects pertaining to the candle scent. Since my scent was a trash can, I collaged two trashcans and a low-opacity picture of fumes (to represent the bad smell of trash cans). This project had very little requirements in terms of selection methods, pictures, etc., so for the most part, I used the quick mask method of selecting since that's the easiest for me to use. To create the fumes mentioned earlier, I worked on it in a separate Photoshop file and made it have a white background. This white background was needed to use blending modes to make the white go away, which would leave just the fumes. Text was an important part of this project; it was used to write the name of the candle itself and the ingredients within the candle (the fonts were Palatino for the title and Arial/Helvetica for the ingredients). The candle was saved as a PNG file to preserve the transparency of the label; if it was saved as a JPEG, the "STINKEE CANDLE" part would have a white background, which would defeat the purpose of the candle looking realistic. To even create the candle itself, it had to be rendered in Illustrator. One side of the candle was traced, and the 3D Revolve Effect was used to create the illusion of a 3D candle. To get the candle label onto the newly-rendered candle jar, it had to be made into a symbol. Art-mapping detects surfaces on a 3D object; in order to place the symbol on the right surface (the front of the jar), the symbol was placed on surface nine. After the candle was art-mapped, it was exported to Photoshop to make the finishing touches. The very last step was, in Photoshop, erasing away parts of the "wax" (the Illustrator-rendered image) to make the candle look as realistic as possible. The eraser setting called "flow" contributed to the blurry sides of the candle. After erasing the excess candle wax, the picture was saved as a PNG file (again, to preserve the transparency of the label).