In our Halloween episode of Studio Snack, we have monster feet, stories behind traditions, weird flavour combinations – and skeleton snack pictures made from the inside out.
We’d come up with the idea over some properly spicy chai (digital conversation is marvellous but creatively, nothing quite beats throwing ideas back and forth in person).
I’ve made pumpkins from pumpkin seeds and a toffee apple from an apple core. Which sounds simple but it involved a lot of the questions and micro-decisions that are part of a creative process:
What’s the difference between a pumpkin and a Halloween pumpkin?
What expression should it have?
If it’s skeleton black and white, does that make it less pumpkiny (if that wasn’t a word, it is now…)
Which bit of an apple core looks most like a toffee apple? [Snaps it in half] That bit! Ooh, it’s like a flower… I’ll come back to that in another experiment...
Does it work on its own or should I edit the shape?
Is flat colour enough for toffee or should I layer it?
Which is playing, really – but it’s important playing to make an image understandable as the thing it is.
Listen to the episode here.
