Ok, it’s almost over now. It’s about a question of taste.
I went for a red orange juice, like this:

I didn’t like the standard or the raytrace material, because it shined strange, so I chose a mental ray material. It’s ‘Glass(physics_phen)’ with these settings:

The last thing I did was add the straw, the lemon and the little umbrella. You can download the file and check it out here:  glass.zip

I never rendered the whole animation as it took too long on my very slow p4 1.7 with 256 ram.

Anyway… I hope you liked mixing this drink and found this in any way helpful. By the way, maybe you noticed how deep this image is, with the sun as the lemon :)

Contact me anytime on [email protected] if you need any help.You can also visit www.3dluvr.com/bogdan for more of my work.