Hello again,
I have been asked to do a Buzz Lightyear cake for a little boy's birthday this weekend. Obviously, I can't freehand that so I thought I would try a FBCT for the first time. I was thinking though, there is a LOT of detail in Buzz LY, so how exactly do you do a transfer like that? Do you pipe stars for all of it or do you fill it in? If you fill it in, would you use the finger-dipped-in-cornstarch method to smooth it out? (For those of you that don't know, you can fix almost anything on a cake with cornstarch!)
I've read the article on a FBCT but just not sure how to go about doing this. Any help is appreciated!! 
If it is too detailed, yo can always do a FBCT of the the outline and base colors and then pipe on the details after you put it on the cake. For me, I personally try to avoid very detailed images, but I have seen some pretty good ones here at CC, so it can be done.
For very detailed FBCTs, freeze each section so that the previous fill-in will not move on you; but you have to work quickly because it doesn't take long to thaw.
Don't worry about smoothing it, just make sure that you fill any cracks.
Once you are finished with the final freezing, remove the transfer from freezer and lay wax paper over the back and flip over. Remove the wax paper from the front and let your transfer thaw and crust. Use Viva to smooth out the wrinkles; place the transfer back in freezer to freeze. Once it is frozen, remove and cover top with wax paper and proceed with the storing of the transfer back in freeze.
This is how I do all my transfers and the extra freezing steps are worth it in my opinion 
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you gotta just go for it.......it looks way more complicated than it actually is.......I did one on a tinkerbell cake in my photos and another of a wolf, both were kinda detailed......tinkerbell had three colors on each eye......that's pretty detailed and I think it came out fine...it didn't all smudge into itself or anything. I just filled in the color and I piped mine while the paper and wax paper were on a clip board and when it was totally finished I gave it a couple of good wacks on the table and it makes all of the filled in areas smooth out on there own......you can see that tinkerbell is pretty smooth in my pics.
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