Bringing some life to the bottle

So, the bottle functions but it doesn't really look as if it's really rotating, so tonight I spent (A VERY LONG) time bringing the bottle to life.


From looking at some real glass rotating I realised that all I really needed to do was make it appear that the light was shifting slightly as the bottle turns.

A bit like the glass here? But not really, a better representation would be to simply rotate the glass that is probably beside you right now...

Basically, I started with taking the bottle PNG image I already had, the largest section of glass area from the image and reducing the transparency, I then imported this to the Flash file and put it under the mask, so that it would not appear in the area surrounding the bottle. Following this I added in a few keyframes so that the layer moved slightly and tweened this.

This made the label fit in better but the bottle is still lacking.

 To tackle this I cut sections from the glass bottle, one of the main light area and one from the surroundings of this, altered the transparency and imported them to the Flash file. I added them into
the masked area, but behind the label layer, so that it was just the bottle being altered. I added some movement to the central light area to give the impression of the light moving across the glass a bit more.

The final step was to bring a little bit of light to the bottle top... Basically followed the same technique of a transparenlt layer of the area moving slightly...

The final product, at a more suitable speed (the HTML version, rather than slow in Flash version)