- [Voiceover] Alright in this movie,
we're gonna take our first right side of the cube,
and we're gonna turn it into the complete orthogonal shape.
And of course, we're doing so with the ultimate intention
of creating this final cube of cubes.
Alright, the first thing we're gonna do
is color this side of the shape.
And so if you have access to my exercise files,
I've actually created a custom swatch library for you.
And you can get to it by going to the swatches panel,
and if you're not seeing that panel,
then you can use the swatches command from the Window menu,
then drop down to this library icon
in the bottom left corner, and click on it
and then chose Other Library
from way down here at the bottom of the pop-up menu.
Then, I'll go to my desktop where I've got my exercise files
and I'll go into this 28_dynamic_fx folder,
and I'll load this guy right here, Cube swatches.
And then click on the Open button.
In order to open those swatches,
and if you've been following right along,
you may end up opening some other swatch libraries as well.
Not to worry,
just go ahead and click on the folder
for these six swatches right here,
and you'll load that color group into your swatches panel,
at which you point you can go ahead
and close those swatch libraries if you like.
I'm also gonna make a little more room
by selecting this cold library right here
and getting rid of it by pressing the Alt key,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and clicking on the trash can in the bottom right corner
of the swatches panel.
And by virtue of the fact that you press
the Alt or Option key,
you bypass the alert message.
Alright, now, assuming that your fill is active,
go ahead and click on cube one in order to fill it with red.
And incidentally, if you don't have access to my swatches,
you can just go ahead and create your own global swatch,
very important that it's global,
but it can be any color that you like.
Alright, now, at this point we have something of a problem.
Notice if I twirl open my cubes layer
here inside the layers panel,
that I've got this item that's called line,
but if you look at the far left side of the control panel,
it's actually a group,
and it's actually groups inside groups.
And to see just how many groups deep it is,
press and hold the Alt key once again,
or the Option key on the Mac,
and click on that little arrow icon,
in order to twirl the whole thing open.
And so this time,
by virtue of the fact that you have
the Alt or Option key down,
you expand the entire thing instead of having
to click over and over again on those arrowheads.
And now the easiest way to ungroup this guy
is to just grab the bottom one and drag him and drop him
above the item called line,
and that's just gonna take it out of the group,
and because it leaves all those groups empty,
they disappear.
Alright, now we'll wanna go ahead and rotate this guy
but we wanna do so statically
using the standard rotate tool,
which you can get by pressing the R key.
And then go ahead and press
the Alt or Option key once again,
and click on the top left point in the shape
in order to bring up the rotate dialogue box,
and so if we were to set the angle value to 360 degrees,
then we would just rotate the shape
back into its original position,
which is why you wanna enter /3 after that value,
to rotate it a third the way around,
and you'll be able to see the effect
if you have the Preview checkbox turned on,
after which point go ahead and click the Copy button,
or you can press Alt + Enter,
or Option + Return on the Mac.
And now we wanna duplicate that transformation,
so just go ahead and press Ctrl + D
or Command + D for duplicate.
Alright, now I wanna brighten up the top and right sides
of this shape,
and so I'll press the V key
to switch back to my black arrow tool,
and I'll go ahead and click on the top shape to select it.
And then what you wanna do,
instead of clicking on this very first swatch
in the far left side of the control panel,
which would bring up the swatches pop-up menu,
as you can see right there,
in which case, press the Escape key to make it go away,
and instead press the Shift key, and click on that swatch.
And that will bring up this tint value right there.
And you're only going to see the tint value, by the way,
if you start with a global swatch,
which means you need to turn on the global checkbox
when you create it.
Alright, but having done that in advance,
I'm gonna reduce this tint value to 65%,
which will brighten that shape, as we're seeing right there.
Now go ahead and click on the right side of the cube,
and then Shift click once again on that very first swatch
up there in the control panel,
and reduce the tint value this time to 85%
and then press the Enter key, or the Return key on the Mac,
in order to make that change.
And you'll end up this orthogonal cube right here.
And just for the sake of seeing it better,
I'll go ahead and turn off the guides layer.
And that is what I consider to be
the most effective way to create an orthogonal cube,
not by slanting a bunch of rectangles,
but rather by duplicating a single straight line
here inside Illustrator.