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- [Voiceover] Alright in this movie,



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we're gonna take our first

right side of the cube,



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and we're gonna turn it into

the complete orthogonal shape.



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And of course, we're doing so

with the ultimate intention



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of creating this final cube of cubes.



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Alright, the first thing we're gonna do



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is color this side of the shape.



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And so if you have access

to my exercise files,



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I've actually created a

custom swatch library for you.



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And you can get to it by

going to the swatches panel,



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and if you're not seeing that panel,



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then you can use the swatches

command from the Window menu,



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then drop down to this library icon



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in the bottom left corner, and click on it



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and then chose Other Library



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from way down here at the

bottom of the pop-up menu.



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Then, I'll go to my desktop

where I've got my exercise files



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and I'll go into this

28_dynamic_fx folder,



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and I'll load this guy

right here, Cube swatches.



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And then click on the Open button.



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In order to open those swatches,



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and if you've been following right along,



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you may end up opening some

other swatch libraries as well.



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Not to worry,



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just go ahead and click on the folder



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for these six swatches right here,



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and you'll load that color

group into your swatches panel,



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at which you point you can go ahead



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and close those swatch

libraries if you like.



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I'm also gonna make a little more room



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by selecting this cold library right here



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and getting rid of it

by pressing the Alt key,



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or the Option key on the Mac,



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and clicking on the trash can

in the bottom right corner



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of the swatches panel.



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And by virtue of the fact that you press



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the Alt or Option key,



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you bypass the alert message.



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Alright, now, assuming

that your fill is active,



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go ahead and click on cube one

in order to fill it with red.



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And incidentally, if you don't

have access to my swatches,



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you can just go ahead and

create your own global swatch,



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very important that it's global,



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but it can be any color that you like.



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Alright, now, at this point we

have something of a problem.



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Notice if I twirl open my cubes layer



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here inside the layers panel,



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that I've got this item

that's called line,



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but if you look at the far

left side of the control panel,



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it's actually a group,



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and it's actually groups inside groups.



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And to see just how

many groups deep it is,



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press and hold the Alt key once again,



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or the Option key on the Mac,



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and click on that little arrow icon,



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in order to twirl the whole thing open.



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And so this time,



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by virtue of the fact that you have



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the Alt or Option key down,



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you expand the entire

thing instead of having



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to click over and over

again on those arrowheads.



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And now the easiest

way to ungroup this guy



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is to just grab the bottom

one and drag him and drop him



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above the item called line,



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and that's just gonna

take it out of the group,



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and because it leaves

all those groups empty,



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they disappear.



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Alright, now we'll wanna go

ahead and rotate this guy



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but we wanna do so statically



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using the standard rotate tool,



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which you can get by pressing the R key.



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And then go ahead and press



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the Alt or Option key once again,



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and click on the top

left point in the shape



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in order to bring up

the rotate dialogue box,



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and so if we were to set the

angle value to 360 degrees,



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then we would just rotate the shape



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back into its original position,



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which is why you wanna

enter /3 after that value,



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to rotate it a third the way around,



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and you'll be able to see the effect



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if you have the Preview

checkbox turned on,



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after which point go ahead

and click the Copy button,



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or you can press Alt + Enter,



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or Option + Return on the Mac.



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And now we wanna duplicate

that transformation,



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so just go ahead and press Ctrl + D



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or Command + D for duplicate.



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Alright, now I wanna brighten

up the top and right sides



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of this shape,



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and so I'll press the V key



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to switch back to my black arrow tool,



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and I'll go ahead and click

on the top shape to select it.



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And then what you wanna do,



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instead of clicking on

this very first swatch



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in the far left side of the control panel,



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which would bring up the

swatches pop-up menu,



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as you can see right there,



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in which case, press the

Escape key to make it go away,



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and instead press the Shift

key, and click on that swatch.



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And that will bring up this

tint value right there.



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And you're only going to see

the tint value, by the way,



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if you start with a global swatch,



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which means you need to

turn on the global checkbox



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when you create it.



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Alright, but having done that in advance,



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I'm gonna reduce this tint value to 65%,



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which will brighten that shape,

as we're seeing right there.



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Now go ahead and click on

the right side of the cube,



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and then Shift click once

again on that very first swatch



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up there in the control panel,



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and reduce the tint value this time to 85%



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and then press the Enter key,

or the Return key on the Mac,



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in order to make that change.



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And you'll end up this

orthogonal cube right here.



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And just for the sake of seeing it better,



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I'll go ahead and turn

off the guides layer.



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And that is what I consider to be



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the most effective way to

create an orthogonal cube,



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not by slanting a bunch of rectangles,



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but rather by duplicating

a single straight line



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here inside Illustrator.