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In the Xara Gallery Forum the discussion on copyrights has touched upon the old thread where we successfully tried to replicate - then surpass - the Apple OS gel look. That has me thinking about using gel effects for non-Apple OS-like objects. Gary has done his gel worms, and Ivan his gummy bears. Then there was the jello thread. How about some new gel-things??
Regards, Ross
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In the Xara Gallery Forum the discussion on copyrights has touched upon the old thread where we successfully tried to replicate - then surpass - the Apple OS gel look. That has me thinking about using gel effects for non-Apple OS-like objects. Gary has done his gel worms, and Ivan his gummy bears. Then there was the jello thread. How about some new gel-things??
Regards, Ross
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... some jelly babies.
Haven't seen them around for ages. I'm more of a chocolate person really. Hmmm ... chocolate coated jelly babies ... sounds interesting.
If I remember rightly they are only a little bit transparent and have a sort of matt-ish finish rather than being very shiny. I'll have to pop down to the sweet shop and see if they have any tomorrow. (Do you have jelly babies in Canada or the US anybody?)
BTW I saw a 'gummy bears' image in a previous thread which are a similar sort of product.
Su
They sell jelly babies in North America. There is also a candy called 'jelly tots' but they don't look like little kids. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]
I really like the jelly candies that look like coke bottles and taste either like cola or root beer. I could eat a pound of them this evening if I had some!
Regards, Ross
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Here ya go Ross. This is a modified version of this month's tutorial image.
Gary
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Neat Gary!!! It reminds me of a concept called a "Dyson Sphere", by scientist Freeman Dyson, in which a highly advanced civilization builds a sphere to encompass their sun and planet/s to harness the energy....if it could ever be done, I think it could resemble this--this one looks like it has broken and reveals the sun inside. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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Maya
I've never seen a gummie, or jelly babie before, so I just sort of winged it.
Jack
Gummie Babies! I like it.
Well Ross here's my effort. Probably spent too much time on it when I should have been working but I was having too much fun with it!
I gave up for now with Jelly babies bought some this evening but they were a bit different to what I remembered them. They were covered in what looked like icing sugar which when I washed it off to see the texture etc made it go all sticky. They weren't very translucent either and I was interested in getting a more transparent effect this time. I might try doing them later with the icing sugar not sure how effective that might be though.
Bought some fruit drops which looked better to use as a study.
Took me a while to figure out the best techniques to getting the look of the thing which is what took the time, it was a case of to bevel or not to bevel etc. It still needs some tweeking with shadows and whatnot however.
Well I've got bags and bags of Jelly sweets and stuff now to get through, now if we had a chocolate challenge ... hmmm...
Su
[This message was edited by Su Lawrence on March 08, 2002 at 00:05.]
[This message was edited by Su Lawrence on March 08, 2002 at 00:19.]
Thanx for sharing Su.
I really like the little bubbles trapped inside the drops! Shadows look good to me.
you get first prize in my book. They look so real. I too, noticed the wonderful effect of the tiny bubbles. They really make it work.
The background was also a great choice to help achieve the translucent effect.
Well done!
I think you should start a new thread on the Gallery, using this image. I know a lot of people will enjoy it.
Jack
I like the semi-transparent look which is more accurate than completely transparent.
Looks real enough to pull them fillings right out of your mouth :-)
Gary
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My sweet tooth just kicked in.
Very nice, very realistic.
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... for all the nice replies!
I had a lot of fun messing around with it.
Doing this sort of thing really gets you thinking about what other effects you can experiment with. I actually found myself staring at a bar of soap covered with bubbles the other day for five minutes. My other half thought I had gone mad. It is a nice way to unwind to play around with different effects, and see what sort of things Xara can do.
I have also done a multicoloured version of 'Jelly Stuff', which I did on one letter by complete accident, it looked sort of funky so I changed all of them and saved as a new file. I will post it in a new thread in the Gallery Forum as you suggested Jack ... many thanks for the encouragement.
I put quite a severe compression on this file to get it down to 38kb or so as at 90% quality it was 65kb which I thought would be too big. In retrospect I probably could have made it slightly better quality as I've just noticed some subtle details are lost at this compression level. Still I live and learn, see if I can do a bit better with my next attachment.
Regards to all
Su
I'm late in posting this--had a sick pet which passed away late last night [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img] ---but anyway, I just got an opportunity to see the newest here and it looks DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]
---As The Crow Flies On---
Maya
Jack your image reminds me of the candy Easter eggs with a candy coating over marshmellow, and the letters would be sweet-tarts. Great work.
Su great looking jelly sweets. The fruit drops could be either chewy jelly or hard candy. Excellent!
Soquili
Jack, Su and others, an interesting thread. Su, those jelly drops or whatever are a great effort. Now to find the time to try and do something similar. Thanks, Neil