Gel effect revisted...

[Ross Macintosh]

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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[Ross Macintosh]

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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[Su Lawrence]

... 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

[Ross Macintosh]

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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[gwpriester]

Here ya go Ross. This is a modified version of this month's tutorial image.

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[Crow Haven]

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

[Old Dog]

I've never seen a gummie, or jelly babie before, so I just sort of winged it.

Jack

[Su Lawrence]

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.]

[roman]

Thanx for sharing Su.

[rheaton]

I really like the little bubbles trapped inside the drops! Shadows look good to me.