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MON CHERI
   
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Mon Cheri... Chocolate special-effects

.Antonella Scoliero, producer at 360FX in Milan invited us to participate in this chocolate commercial directed by Stef Viaene. We managed our own liquid chocolate. Model cherries and pralines were by Oxygène in Paris.
The commercial was shot in high-speed. Using our custom built rigs we developed some rather unusual images in collaboration with the director.

  
   
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Mon Cheri... Liquid Chocolate

. Using our own chocolate we found a way of making shapes with this very viscous, shiny liquid. In this case a neat kind of 'flower' shape was used. On the set we saw streams of chocolate mixing in all kinds of exciting ways, sometimes leading to very "surreal" results...

  
     
   
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  . Here is one of our first studio tests, made in Amsterdam before traveling to Milan. (Still a long way to go...).
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Cherries and licquor float together

. A spiral of licquor is penetratedby six cherries just at the moment that the spiral is side on to the camera...
We spent a lot of time preparing this and finding a suitable licquor.

  
     
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  . This s a workshop test of the spiral made using different fruit from a previous commercial. Apart from making the spiral,and finding a suitable viscosity for the licquor, we had to find a way to get the cherries to bunch well and arrive at a given moment in the twist of the licquor...
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Pack shot ...

. The praline itself revolves as it is covered from four sides by liquid chocolate. In the revolution the the chocolate recedes and the praline fades to a "hero" in it's wrapping...

  
     
   
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