My attempts to work a normal work day yesterday were subverted because it was my nephew's birthday. He wanted a World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King cake. Nothing like picking a theme that the party store doesn't stock! It's actually a fairly regular request from our nieces and nephews to have something out of the ordinary as the theme for their birthday cake. Karen and I always seem to deliver, though. She's very creative about finding action figures and other little toys to decorate the top of the cake. And I'm there as backup to pull some graphic design magic out of my hat when toys aren't available.
That was the case this time. Wrath of the Lich King toys aren't readily available (if even available at all) so I had to come up with something. Fortunately I happened to have purchased the collector's edition of Wrath when it came out. Fortunate because it just happened to come with a book, "Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King." How providential is that? So we had a source for artwork that I could use for the cake. I used a huge picture of the Lich King as the main cake top. Then there were small medallions representing a couple of his armor pieces that I made to go around the side of the cake. I took the basic WoW logo and modified it so that it would say "Happy Birthday" in the WoW fonts. I had found a font that mimicked the WoW logo font, but it was flat. The text in the original logo is very 3-D looking. So I had to do some massaging to make the text look like a reasonable facsimile of the original logo. The whole thing turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.
The only stink thing was that it took me all day to make the stuff for the cake. So now I'm working this weekend to make up the time. Oh well. I guess it was worth it. My nephew totally loved the cake. I'll post some pictures once they are off the camera.
That was the case this time. Wrath of the Lich King toys aren't readily available (if even available at all) so I had to come up with something. Fortunately I happened to have purchased the collector's edition of Wrath when it came out. Fortunate because it just happened to come with a book, "Art of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King." How providential is that? So we had a source for artwork that I could use for the cake. I used a huge picture of the Lich King as the main cake top. Then there were small medallions representing a couple of his armor pieces that I made to go around the side of the cake. I took the basic WoW logo and modified it so that it would say "Happy Birthday" in the WoW fonts. I had found a font that mimicked the WoW logo font, but it was flat. The text in the original logo is very 3-D looking. So I had to do some massaging to make the text look like a reasonable facsimile of the original logo. The whole thing turned out pretty nice, if I do say so myself.
The only stink thing was that it took me all day to make the stuff for the cake. So now I'm working this weekend to make up the time. Oh well. I guess it was worth it. My nephew totally loved the cake. I'll post some pictures once they are off the camera.
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Yes, yes! Post pictures! I can't believe you guys pull these cakes off all the time!
The pictures have been posted now on a subsequent post.
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