How To Create Glass Balls PDF (from a Video Tutorial)

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:03 am **(#1)**

Pixlab (Patrice) posted an interesting link to a video. Create a Glass Ball
I have tried to get most of it, if anybody is interested to do it.

PixLab · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:55 am **(#2)**

Wow, that's a lot of work :clap

Thanks Issabella, it's great to have it as a pdf :tyspin

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:07 am **(#3)**

Issabella, do not ask me to create a .py from such a long .pdf...!!!
But certainly you did a very precious effort for those who like to follow your tutorials.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Awesome result; will wait for Diego to creat the .py file. lololololol

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:14 pm **(#5)**

Thanks a lot. :bigthup

I'm afraid we will have to do it manually. :hehe

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon Sep 20, 2021 2:28 pm **(#6)**

Issabella - thanks for this; you have now taken over the 'glass guru' mantle.

leftyleo · **Posted:** Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:44 pm **(#7)**

Thank you Issabella
The video was a bit hard to follow. I got it done but it took days to get it right.

-I had a problem with the supernova making the whole image blurry and washed out.
So I dropped that and just made another "air bubble" then scaled it flat and wide,
put on the top of the sphere, then Gaussian blurred it and finally used that same alpha
select/invert/clear technique that was used many times to keep the edges sharp.

Issabella · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:09 am **(#8)**

Thanks a lot you all for your appreciation, but I'm sure there will be some errors through it.
I'll try to correct it when I repeat the process. But it is good to know the concept the creator used to get so nice effect.
The most difficult part for me was to have so many layers with so many details without having a good English level. :hehe

LeftyLeo, congrats for your result and your skill to solve the supernova part. :coolthup

Ella · **Joined:** May 17, 2014 **Posts:** 1568

Wow Issabella, a lot of work to make this tutorial, good job :bigthup

Almost three years ago I also followed this video tutorial with this as the result.
Whether I also had problems with the supernova, I can't remember.
Then the search is to find a creative alternative, as leftyleo did :bigthup

Pocholo · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2021 2:14 pm **(#10)**

Thank you Issa for the tutorial, I decided to create a plugin. Work in progress, this is what I got so far.

leftyleo · **Posted:** Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:09 pm **(#11)**

Pocholo: i remember having marbles like that as a child.

_so you went for coding a plug-in ? wow.
good luck

Pocholo · **Posted:** Thu Sep 23, 2021 12:12 am **(#12)**

I used to play a lot as a child. I used to play the game of "Cova" (that is what in my country is named). We drew an oval shape on the ground and place all the marble inside the shape. Then, you have to try to get as much of you can, using one marble. If you miss or you don't get any marbles out of the oval shape, then is somebody else turn.

Thank you for your comment!