I’ve been learning a lot the past couple of days. One thing I learned was how to get mplayer to show my webcam while I did a screencast. Arthur Reeder taught me how to do this. If you haven’t seen his site, check it out here.

The other thing was how to do this awesome candy coating effect with Inkscape. John LeMasney taught me how to do this. You have to look at his site, 365sketches.org. He has some really awesome stuff. The rocket ship is my favorite.

This candy coating effect gives your drawing a nice shiny 3D effect. It looks like there is a bright light above the object and it’s reflecting off of it.

So here is the screencast of how to do the candy coating effect:

Thanks for taking a look. Comments, as always, are appreciated.