Designing a 3D Ball

by mystique_knight@hotmail.com

3D Ball In Swish: In this tutorial you'll learn how to design a simple 3D ball in Swish.

1.) Open a new Swish movie. File->New

2.) Click on the 'Ellipse' tool located to the left of the Swish Movie Stage.

3.) Having the Ellipse tool selected move your mouse to the Swish Stage and
click and hold on the Left Mouse button while holding the 'Shift' key and
drag to make your circle the size you would like and let go of the left
mouse button before the Shift button when you have the circle the size you
want it at. (Holding the Shift key will ensure that your circle is a
complete sphere.

4.) With your circle selected, open your 'Shapes' panel. It should
automaticly be shown after you make the circle.

5.) When you have it open, go to were the 'Line' box is and click the little
arrow located beside the straight line. Choose 'None' from the menu that
comes down.

6.) Now you'll want to add the 'Radial Gradient' to your circle. To do so,
still staying in your Shapes tab, go down to were the 'Fill' section is and
click were it says 'Solid' on the menu that comes up, go down to 'Radial
Gradient'

7.) You will notice that your circle now will most likly be a Black dot in
the middle that is fading out. That is ok you'll just need to change the
colors. You will notice that there is now a Gradient bar below in the fill
section, there will also be 2 little triangles sticling out along the Grey
part of the gradient bar. You will use these you change your color, (See
Next Step To Change Color)

8.) The left triange that is sticking out will change the color of the
little dot located in the center of your circle. The Right triangle will
change the outer color of the circle. For now we will change the circle
colors to the following:

Left Triangel-> White
Right Triangel-> Grey

9.) You should now have a circle with a faded white dot in the middle and
grey along the outsides. Were now going to move the little white dot in the
middle to the top left corner of the circle to give it more of a 3d effect.

10.) Your now going to want to click the 'Fill Transform' button located to
the left of the Swish Movie Stage. The button has a small sq with a gradient
in it, and a Semi Circle arrow around it. Click that, and you will notice a
circle goes around the 3d circle your creating, there should also be blue
sq's around the new circle.

11.) Now that you've got the Fill Transform tool clicked, go inside of the
new circle and drag it slowly to the top left corner of your circle. Drag it
to your liking so it looks like a 3d ball, and your now complete.

12.) You may also change the colors to anything you like now!