Glass Ball - attempt 1

[Loken]

I was always disappointed with glass ball tutorials on the net because they never turned out to be realistic at all. So i set out on my own to try and find some means of creating a real-looking glass ball.
After sitting for a few days looking at a glass ball placed upon the earth of my back yard, i finally came up with attempt 1



cruitique please.

[Virulent]

glass ball looks good but u made a huge mistake. no shadow under the ball. there is shadow around it but not under it. might wana fix that.

[Loken]

Think it was just a perspective thing, but i see your point.

[Ben]

Yeah fix that, and it looks very nice =)
Should write a tut on that

[Riddleb0x]

Yeah fix that, and it looks very nice =)
Should write a tut on that

definatly kicks ass

[Shadow]

Whoa, great job. The only thing is what the others mentioned about the shadow. Maybe a reflection of something looking down at it would be cool or a ray of light from the sun bouncing off of it. How long did this take you?

[Loken]

Took me about 20 minutes. It's actually so easy you'll kick yourself.
I set out to make it as quick to do as possible as well.

[Jeff]

That's pretty cool, I've seen some tutorials like that. Did you do that with liquify? Looks nice, aside from what's already been mentioned.

[Ben]

I take it, a white cirlc eon low opacity with loads of blending options, and not sure bout the rest.

That polar thing maybe?

[Loken]

Loads of blending options? LOL! nah. one blending option, two layer styles, polar coordinates bit of 3d transform and that was it.

You'll find out tomorrow when i finish the tutorial.