How many different designs would you be looking to have?
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Well I have five different flavors and probably over 1000 pieces of candy so far. They'll be going 5 to a bag. So theoretically I could do a separate image for each sheet of labels if there are enough. |
Originally Posted by FrozenDeath
How many different designs would you be looking to have?
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So right now I have about 200 bags of candy worth of candy (probably be more by PAX maybe double the amount). The labels are 10 to a sheet. So I could do 20 different designs right now.
what are the five flavors ? this will help me to come up with more CoH based ideas 
here is an example of what I thought of so far
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Strawberry|
Originally Posted by EnnVee
what are the five flavors ? this will help me to come up with more CoH based ideas
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Raspberry
Pina Colada
Grape
Orange
Lemon
They look like:
Only different colors.
I was actually going to just do a pretty standard list of flavors and ingrediants, the bags will be mixed, not sure I'll have much room with all of that on a 2x4 label. I was really just thinking cute little self contained doodles or mini-chibis.
This is what I was thinking of. Ideally this way I could keep the text the same and swap out the image, and its crediting easily. I also won't need to mark them as being for Child's Play, almost everyone at PAX knows the Cookie Brigade is giving out noms for Child's Play and the distributors will make sure anyone who doesn't knows when they get the noms.
(extremely rough draft I just threw together in 5 minutes >_>)
Just goofing around cuz I can't sleep just yet...
Something like this perhaps?
Nom Nom Nom Nom
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Thats awesome!|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
Just goofing around cuz I can't sleep just yet...
Something like this perhaps? Nom Nom Nom Nom |
And yes something like that is what I was thinking. What would you want your by line to say? It'll probably be something like:
Image By: Name (URL)
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I got your PM, I actually might may a few one off bags of single flavors using those to give the Devs at the Panel.
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Originally Posted by EnnVee
what are the five flavors ? this will help me to come up with more CoH based ideas
here is an example of what I thought of so far |
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Thanks. |
Originally Posted by ransim
Thats awesome!
And yes something like that is what I was thinking. What would you want your by line to say? It'll probably be something like: Image By: Name (URL) |
Image By: Christopher Robin (http://christopherrobinartz.deviantart.com/)
would be fine.
How about...
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Nice! I'm going to have to send you some of the candy.|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
How about...
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I'll use these two for the first couple sets of labels I do hopefully Wednesday I'll be sure to take a picture to post here. We just spent most of the night doing the first round of bagging.
Had a couple minutes today so I printed out the first sheet of labels to test it out.
Here is the result:
(click for full size)
Hopefully for anyone who takes the few minutes to do a doodle this will get you a bit of traffic.
As I get more printed I'll post what they look like. I'm still working on a few layout kinks.
That's awesome!
I'm not so worried about the extra traffic I just like that it's for a good cause and maybe one of the devs will get a chuckle out of it. I commend you Ransim for all the work you are doing to support a great charity (wish they'd had toys and games for hospitalized children when I was a kid).
/em salute!
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Thanks, I have a soft spot for Child's Play because I was lucky enough as a kid when I was in the hospital or my brother to have games to distract us. And that was for relatively short stints.|
Originally Posted by ChristopherRobin
That's awesome!
I'm not so worried about the extra traffic I just like that it's for a good cause and maybe one of the devs will get a chuckle out of it. I commend you Ransim for all the work you are doing to support a great charity (wish they'd had toys and games for hospitalized children when I was a kid). /em salute! |
Two days after my tonsillectomy in the hospital and having ET to watch and games to play made the whole thing go by faster. Three weeks with my younger brother while he had salmonella poisoning and the toy room made a huge difference.
So I enjoy supporting child's play, I know from experience how much just a toy or a video can help.
Well and the con goers appreciate the snacks too, so its win win.
Okay last one, then I'll give other people a chance to get in on this. 
(come on peeps it's for a children's charity)
Your suite of sweets reminded me of inspirations from the game.
Feel free to clean this up, put in proper text. I drew and scanned this in the office with no image editing tools so it is a bit grim. It is based on a CoH screen shot.
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All right Airhead! Nice one man.
Those are both great!
I'm going to be printing several sheets out tonight to label the bags we have already assembled. So I'll be sure to get pictures of how they all turn out.
I love the inspiration reference Airhead, I'll clean it up a bit tonight in Photoshop when I get home though it looks awesome for just a scanned doodle.
You guys rock! I'm going to enjoy giving these out to the devs, I'll be sure to hopefully get pictures of them with them.
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Airhead I need to know how you want it attributed. Format:
Image: Name (URL)
I finally got home from work, at 2:30am. I have to catch a flight at 7:30am. To sleep or not to sleep? Unfortunately I won't get to clean up my drawing.
It would be lovely to have my rough attributed to @Aehaed, fairgo.deviantart.com . Thanks!
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Here are the other doodles on labels. Don't ask me how I managed to do one sideways.
I can accept new images through probably Tuesday March 2nd.
Hey guys! I just want to give you a update of how the Cookie Brigade did this year raising money for Child's Play.
The candy was very well received and everyone liked the doodles, they thought it added a nice personal touch!
We raised over $9,600 while giving away the tasty cookies and candy and presented it to Tycho and Gabe at the closing ceremonies on Sunday. This was $2,000 more then the previous record at PAX Prime 2010!
I also sent Avatea back to Paragon Studios with some candy for War Witch and gave Positron a package of the candy with the Positron doodle.
Thanks guys!
That is awesome that you raised so much for a great cause. Congratulations!
I'm happy to have helped (even in such a small way). Thanks for the opportunity.
I hope this isn't completely out of line but I know there are lots of artists here and its not a community I'm very actively involved in.
I'm currently working on making candy (shaped like space invaders) for PAX East. These will be given out for the Cookie Brigade, which takes donations while giving out candy and cookies and other treats to expo goers. All of the donations go to support Child's Play.
I'm looking for doodles I can put on the labels i'm putting on the candy (has description of flavors and ingredients). They'd need to be simple, black and white and appeal to gamers and others in the nerd/geek culture. Also bonus points if you make them CoH based I will mob to developers and make them take some at the Panel or Meet & Greet.
Doodles can be anything, I will also happily put your name and a short URL with them if you want. I'll most likely be using a large avery mailing label (most likely 2"x4") and a black and white laser printer to print these off and slap them on the ziplock snack bags the candy is going into.
Sorry if this is too far out there are an unacceptable post just let me know and I'll blank it.
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