I made a new screencast, Episode 050, demonstrating how to illustrate a sparkle or flare effect. Very simple to do but I noticed that I missed a step when I made the sparkle. Piss! After making the “star” shape I wanted to make it a radial gradient so that the legs of the sparkle would fade away. Before I made the screencast I felt that it was a critical element. However, after watching the screencast it didn’t look too terribly bad without the gradient. So screw it. I don’t wanna record it again. Yes, I’m lazy but that’s expected, right? I think you guys and gals will get the gist of the tutorial. Missing a detail or two shouldn’t harm anything…I hope. On the other hand, Michael Bolton missed one “mundane detail” in the movie Office Space and we all know what happened to him.

Oh, by the way…before some one brings it to my attention as to why I put a sparkle on a button, I normally wouldn’t. I just did that for this screencast.

Thank heavens! Isn’t it nice when you flip on your RSS reader first thing in the morning and you have 5 or more podcasts sitting there…waiting to be listened too?