Brand text into meat

[Joseph W. bourke]

What Dave says is really good. Also, try thinking about what you see when a branding iron hits a piece of meat – I assume this is already cooked meat.

When the iron hits, the red hot metal causes the juices in the meat to turn into steam, so there’s an initial puff, and then a steady smaller stream of steam from the edges of the iron (if you have an iron in the shot – or if this is stylized). The initial reaction of red hot on wet meat is violent enough that you’d also get a few particles being released at the initial contact. As the burn continues, the depth of the brand gets deeper, and the very edges of the brand are charred, but not in a necessarily even way. The burned area of the brand, although blackened, also has some specular highlights on it, due to it following the inner contours of the piece of meat.

Do a Google search for video of branding – you’ll find a bunch of real shots of what meat looks like after the branding – I had no idea people now have grill branding irons for their favorite college teams! Also do an image Google search on “branded meat” – you’ll find quite a few real shots of what the final look is, plus some really hokey approximations. Good luck!

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Timi Boose]

Thanks guys – ooo it’s sounding a little above my abilities, but I’m going to give it another try. Some of those branding videos are hilarious!

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