1 00:00:00.05 --> 00:00:01.09 - [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll introduce you 2 00:00:01.09 --> 00:00:04.05 to transform sequences, which are duplicates 3 00:00:04.05 --> 00:00:06.05 that you can create within the context 4 00:00:06.05 --> 00:00:08.05 of a transform effect. 5 00:00:08.05 --> 00:00:09.09 And, I'll also introduce you to another 6 00:00:09.09 --> 00:00:12.09 dynamic effect called convert to shape. 7 00:00:12.09 --> 00:00:13.09 And along the way, we'll 8 00:00:13.09 --> 00:00:15.08 create this atomic symbol. 9 00:00:15.08 --> 00:00:17.02 And, believe it or not, if I press 10 00:00:17.02 --> 00:00:19.03 Control Y, or Command Y on the Mac, 11 00:00:19.03 --> 00:00:21.04 it's nothing more than an ellipse. 12 00:00:21.04 --> 00:00:23.02 Everything else that we're seeing here 13 00:00:23.02 --> 00:00:25.07 is a function of the appearance panel. 14 00:00:25.07 --> 00:00:27.03 So the first thing I'll do is go up to 15 00:00:27.03 --> 00:00:29.03 the file menu and choose new from template. 16 00:00:29.03 --> 00:00:30.08 Or, I can take advantage of that keyboard 17 00:00:30.08 --> 00:00:32.04 shortcut of control shift N or 18 00:00:32.04 --> 00:00:34.00 command shift N on the Mac. 19 00:00:34.00 --> 00:00:35.09 Then, I'll locate my center guides document 20 00:00:35.09 --> 00:00:37.05 and double click on it. 21 00:00:37.05 --> 00:00:39.05 Alright, now I'll go ahead and select my ellipse 22 00:00:39.05 --> 00:00:41.08 tool from the shape tool fly out menu. 23 00:00:41.08 --> 00:00:43.02 And, as you may recall, 24 00:00:43.02 --> 00:00:45.09 way back in chapter 11 of the Fundamentals Course. 25 00:00:45.09 --> 00:00:47.08 I changed the keyboard shortcut for this 26 00:00:47.08 --> 00:00:49.05 tool to shift M. 27 00:00:49.05 --> 00:00:51.08 Alright, now, alt click or option click 28 00:00:51.08 --> 00:00:54.00 at the intersection of those two guidelines. 29 00:00:54.00 --> 00:00:56.07 And I'll change the width value to 180 points. 30 00:00:56.07 --> 00:00:58.09 And the height value to 640, afterward which point 31 00:00:58.09 --> 00:01:02.03 I'll click okay in order to create that ellipse. 32 00:01:02.03 --> 00:01:04.08 And I'll go ahead and take the line weight 33 00:01:04.08 --> 00:01:06.08 value up to 10 points. 34 00:01:06.08 --> 00:01:08.00 Like so. 35 00:01:08.00 --> 00:01:09.02 And I'm gonna change the fill 36 00:01:09.02 --> 00:01:11.07 from white to black. 37 00:01:11.07 --> 00:01:15.03 So, we have an entirely black ellipse at this point. 38 00:01:15.03 --> 00:01:16.09 Alright, now press the v key to switch back 39 00:01:16.09 --> 00:01:18.04 to the black arrow tool. 40 00:01:18.04 --> 00:01:20.01 And I'll turn off the guides layer here 41 00:01:20.01 --> 00:01:21.05 inside the layers panel. 42 00:01:21.05 --> 00:01:23.01 And, then I'll switch over to the appearance 43 00:01:23.01 --> 00:01:24.08 panel, which of course you can get by 44 00:01:24.08 --> 00:01:26.08 choosing appearance from the window menu. 45 00:01:26.08 --> 00:01:28.04 Alright, the first thing I wanna do 46 00:01:28.04 --> 00:01:30.08 is make my fill smaller. 47 00:01:30.08 --> 00:01:31.09 So, I'm gonna scale that fill 48 00:01:31.09 --> 00:01:33.06 independently of the stroke. 49 00:01:33.06 --> 00:01:35.04 But, I'm not gonna do so using a 50 00:01:35.04 --> 00:01:37.01 transform effect, just because that would 51 00:01:37.01 --> 00:01:38.07 be too much work. 52 00:01:38.07 --> 00:01:40.01 Instead, I'll go ahead and click on the 53 00:01:40.01 --> 00:01:41.07 fill to select it, and then I'll 54 00:01:41.07 --> 00:01:44.02 drop down to the FX icon, choose 55 00:01:44.02 --> 00:01:47.03 convert to shape and choose ellispe. 56 00:01:47.03 --> 00:01:49.04 And I know that seems so weird. 57 00:01:49.04 --> 00:01:51.03 Why in the world am I going to convert 58 00:01:51.03 --> 00:01:53.02 one ellipse to another? 59 00:01:53.02 --> 00:01:55.02 Well, really what I'm gonna do is convert 60 00:01:55.02 --> 00:01:57.03 an ellipse to an absolute circle 61 00:01:57.03 --> 00:01:58.09 by choosing this command. 62 00:01:58.09 --> 00:02:01.01 And then, as opposed to scaling the shape 63 00:02:01.01 --> 00:02:02.08 relative to its current size, 64 00:02:02.08 --> 00:02:06.02 I'll select absolute and then I will change 65 00:02:06.02 --> 00:02:08.04 the width and heigth values each to 66 00:02:08.04 --> 00:02:10.04 64 points, like so. 67 00:02:10.04 --> 00:02:11.09 And that's gonna give me a 68 00:02:11.09 --> 00:02:15.00 very precise circle in the center of the shape. 69 00:02:15.00 --> 00:02:16.08 After which point I'll click okay, 70 00:02:16.08 --> 00:02:18.08 in order to accept that change. 71 00:02:18.08 --> 00:02:20.04 Alright, now click on a stroke 72 00:02:20.04 --> 00:02:21.08 in order to make it active. 73 00:02:21.08 --> 00:02:24.04 And I'll drop down to the FX icon once again. 74 00:02:24.04 --> 00:02:27.04 Choose distort and transform, and choose 75 00:02:27.04 --> 00:02:29.07 transform in order to bring up 76 00:02:29.07 --> 00:02:31.04 the transform dialogue box. 77 00:02:31.04 --> 00:02:34.02 And, I know I want three copies of this shape. 78 00:02:34.02 --> 00:02:37.01 And, as you may know, 360° describes 79 00:02:37.01 --> 00:02:38.05 an entire circle. 80 00:02:38.05 --> 00:02:41.05 And so, I'll go ahead and enter 360 followed by 81 00:02:41.05 --> 00:02:43.06 slash three, in order to 82 00:02:43.06 --> 00:02:45.07 divide that value by three. 83 00:02:45.07 --> 00:02:48.01 And that gives me 120°. 84 00:02:48.01 --> 00:02:49.06 And as you can see, if I turn on the 85 00:02:49.06 --> 00:02:52.01 preview checkbox, I do indeed rotate 86 00:02:52.01 --> 00:02:55.06 the shape 120° about its center. 87 00:02:55.06 --> 00:02:57.06 And that's a function of this little reference 88 00:02:57.06 --> 00:02:59.03 point matrix right there. 89 00:02:59.03 --> 00:03:01.03 If I were to select a different point, 90 00:03:01.03 --> 00:03:04.02 then I would rotate the shape by one of the corners 91 00:03:04.02 --> 00:03:05.06 or the sides and that ends up 92 00:03:05.06 --> 00:03:07.06 taking it outside of my field of 93 00:03:07.06 --> 00:03:09.01 view right now, so I'll go ahead 94 00:03:09.01 --> 00:03:11.00 and click on the center point once again 95 00:03:11.00 --> 00:03:12.09 to bring it back on screen. 96 00:03:12.09 --> 00:03:15.02 Now, if I were to click okay, and then I would just 97 00:03:15.02 --> 00:03:18.02 go ahead and virtually rotate this shape. 98 00:03:18.02 --> 00:03:20.03 Which really doesn't serve me any purpose. 99 00:03:20.03 --> 00:03:23.06 Because, I actually need three copies in all. 100 00:03:23.06 --> 00:03:26.02 So, what I'm gonna do is twirl open that stroke, 101 00:03:26.02 --> 00:03:28.00 so I can see the word transform. 102 00:03:28.00 --> 00:03:29.05 I'll click on it, in order 103 00:03:29.05 --> 00:03:31.07 to bring that transform effect once again, 104 00:03:31.07 --> 00:03:34.04 complete with an angle value of 120°. 105 00:03:34.04 --> 00:03:36.02 I'll turn on the preview checkbox, 106 00:03:36.02 --> 00:03:38.04 and then I'll click in this copies field. 107 00:03:38.04 --> 00:03:40.03 And, I'll press the up arrow key, 108 00:03:40.03 --> 00:03:42.00 and you can see, just by raising the 109 00:03:42.00 --> 00:03:45.07 copies to one, I bring back the original ellipse. 110 00:03:45.07 --> 00:03:48.01 Now, if I press the up arrow key again, 111 00:03:48.01 --> 00:03:50.09 I get a second copy, meaning I have two copies 112 00:03:50.09 --> 00:03:53.07 along with one original, so three versions of the 113 00:03:53.07 --> 00:03:55.01 ellipse in all. 114 00:03:55.01 --> 00:03:58.03 At which point, I'll click okay to accept that change. 115 00:03:58.03 --> 00:04:00.09 Alright, so that's pretty amazing, but it leaves 116 00:04:00.09 --> 00:04:03.05 you shy of three electrons, which is why I'll 117 00:04:03.05 --> 00:04:05.06 show you how you go about making those 118 00:04:05.06 --> 00:04:07.06 in the very next movie.