5 Responses to “Episode 035”

1. franky Says:
   May 1st, 2009 at 8:44 am

   Hi, I’m looking at your usefull video tutorial and I have a question: why do you use a mask insted of a simple gradient to make reflection of an object? There are some differences in results? I tried both method and I did not find differences.

2. heathenx Says:
   May 1st, 2009 at 9:51 am

   A mask will blend into any background color where a gradient will not. Draw a large rectangle, color it differently than your background and slide it under your reflection and see what happens.

3. Richard Querin Says:
   May 1st, 2009 at 11:26 am

   What also makes using masks much better for reflections is the fact that you can create a reflection of a group of multiple objects. To do that with gradients, you’d have to adjust the gradient of each and every single object and you’d have to make them all match properly. With masking, you can just group the objects and fade them to transparent with a single operation. So you can make reflections of very complicated objects very easily.

4. Evol Jenius Says:
   June 23rd, 2009 at 10:52 am

   Before I did the skew, I lined up the top left corner and moved the crosshairs to that corner. Is there any reason not to do it that way?

5. Richard Querin Says:
   June 23rd, 2009 at 2:50 pm

   @Evol Jenius

   Actually that’s a much better way to do it. Of course I only realized that probably a couple of hours after I had recorded the screencast. Definitely that’s the way I do it now. Makes much more sense.

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