- [Voiceover] In this movie, we'll embark on a
real world project that's uniquely suited
to static transformations, namely this star logo
which by the way is inspired by the
old United Pixelworkers logo,
which actually looks like this
but they had a star version of it as well
and so we're gonna start things off in this movie
by first scaling these primitive shapes
over here on the left hand side of the screen
and then uniting them to create
these two custom shapes
over here on the right side of the screen.
And so the first step is to go up to the File menu
and choose New From Template
and then I'll go ahead and load that center guides template
by double clicking on it
and next what we wanna do is select the ellipse tool,
which you can get from the shape tool flyout menu
and notice if you went ahead
and modified your keyboard shortcuts
back in chapter 11 of the fundamentals course,
that you have a shortcut now of
Shift + M to complement the rectangle tool's M.
In any case, I'll go ahead and select that tool
and then I'll move my cursor over the
intersection of the two guidelines
and I'll Alt or Option + Click
in order to create this shape from the center outward.
And I came up with these values right here,
both the width and height of 30 points each
at which point I'll go ahead and click OK
to create that shape.
Now I could create another shape at that location
but these live shape widgets are getting in the way
and incidentally, you don't need to leave them there,
you can turn off the live shape widgets
anytime you like by going up here to the Control handle
and notice this icon right there, Hide Shape Widgets.
If you click on it, those shape widgets will go away.
For all the live shape tools which include by the way,
not only the rectangle tool, the ellipse tool
and the polygon tool these days
but also the line segment tool.
In any event, I'm not gonna work that way.
I'm just gonna go ahead and turn these guys back on
by clicking on that same icon
and instead, I'm gonna create additional ellipses
using the scale tool.
So I'll go ahead and grab the scale tool
which again you can get by pressing the S key
and then I'll press the Enter key
or the Return key on a Mac
to bring up the scale dialog box
and I came up with a uniform value of 500%
which is gonna create a shape that measures
five times 30 by 30 points,
or 150 points.
At which point I'll go ahead and click the Copy button
or you can press Alt +Enter on the PC
or Option + Return on a Mac to create a copy.
Now it doesn't look like I have a copy
and that's because the original shape
is hidden in the background
and so I'll just go ahead and press and hold the Control key
or the Command key on a Mac
in order to get my last used arrow tool on the fly,
which in my case is the black arrow
and then I'll just go ahead and marquee these shapes like so
and I'll go up here to the control panel
and I'll change the fill to nothing,
that way I can see both shapes
and I'm gonna go ahead and take the line weight
up to three points like so.
Alright now I just wanna select the outer shape
and so I'll once again press the Control key
or the Command key on a Mac
in order to get the black arrow on the fly
and I'll add the Shift key
and then click on this middle shape.
So that's a Control + Shift + Click here on the PC
or Command + Shift + Click on a Mac
so that just the outer shape is selected
and then when I release the Control or Command key,
I return to my scale tool at which point
I'll go ahead and press Enter or Return
to once again bring up the scale dialog box
and I will change the uniform value to 140%
and then I'll once again click on the Copy button
in order to create a copy of that shape.
Alright, now I wanna create a fourth ellipse
but I wanna make it based on this middle one right here,
it's just the easiest way to work.
So I'll go ahead and Control or Command click
on that guy once again
and I will again press the Enter key
or the Return key on a Mac
to bring up the scale dialog box
and this time I'll change this value to
220% and in case you're wondering
where I'm getting these values,
I'm just doing the math.
220% times the diameter of that middle circle
which was 150 points
gets us a 330 point diameter
at which point I'll go ahead and click Copy
in order to create that shape.
And so the idea here is that the distance
between these two circles is the same as
the distance between these two.
And I can demonstrate that by
drawing a couple of rectangles
which I'll create using, of course, the rectangle tool
and if you're working along with me,
make sure that your smart guides are turned on,
which they are not for me
so I'll go ahead and turn them on
and then I'm gonna drag up like so
until the heads up display
shows a width of 60
and I ultimately want a height value here
of 225 points
and I ultimately came up with these values,
of course through trial and error,
and a little bit of reverse engineering for your benefit.
Alright now I'm gonna press the V key
to return to the black arrow tool
and I'll go ahead and drag this guy
by one of its bottom corner handles
until it snaps into alignment
with this circle right here
and I'll go ahead and press the Alt key
or the Option key on a Mac
so that I'm creating a copy of this shape.
Alright now we need to draw some
shorter rectangles on the other side
and I'll do that by once again switching
to the rectangle tool and I'll drag up
and over like so and you can see,
once again, I have a width of 60 points
so everything's in parody
but I want a height value, if I can get it,
of 90 points like so
and then I'll press the V key
to switch back to my black arrow tool
and I'll make a duplicate of this guy
by dragging him over and pressing
the Alt or the Option key
in order to make a copy.
Alright and finally I'll just go ahead
and rename this layer "Primitives," like so
and click off the shapes in order to deselect them
and that's how you create a handful of
so-called primitives using a combination
of the ellipse tool, couldn't be easier,
as well as the rectangle tool,
also very easy,
combined with the power of the scale tool
here inside Illustrator.