Episode 061 is now up. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a pseudo-realistic looking recycle bin type object. It could be useful for someone wanting to create icons perhaps. It only took 7 or 8 objects to create and demonstrates how some subtle uses of gradients and blurs can help get the effect you want.

I also fooled around with my Flip video camera and ended up doing a fun little intro with it. Hope you like it.

Note: The flash version of the intro is a little choppy. Heathenx and I had a fairly long chat today about why the FLV video plays much choppier in the browser than it does when you play the FLV file directly with VLC. Anyway, the downloadable AVI version looks much better. We’ll be investigating improvements to the streaming version in the next little while.