- [Voiceover] Alright these next movies represent
a real deep dive into dynamic effects.
And you're gonna either leave this project feeling
completely amazed and absolutely inspired to see
what else you can do because it really is endless,
or you're gonna get sick and tired
of my navel gazing and move on.
But either way you're gonna have a sense
for the real power of these functions.
So what we're gonna do here is
we're gonna create what I'm calling
these flowering vectors,
and the truly amazing thing about this,
is this is all dynamic effects, all the time.
and so if you were to go up to the view menu
and choose the Outline command, or press ctrl + y
or command + y on a Mac you would see that all we have here
are two identically sized circles and nothing more.
But if I press ctrl + z or command + z on a Mac
to undo that move and then I press ctrl + y
or command + y on a Mac to switch back to the preview mode
you can see that those circles blossomed into petals
and then later on we'll turn it into
a kind of spiky-origami effect.
Now this is another one of those projects
that we are going to create entirely from scratch.
So I'm gonna start off by going up to the file menu
and choosing New From Template,
or of course you can ctrl + shift + n
or command + shift + n on the Mac
and then I'll just go ahead
and double-click on that center guides document.
Now, I'll go to the Shape tool flyout menu
and select the ellipse tool
and then I'll turn on my smart guides
by choosing the Smart Guides command from the view menu
or pressing ctrl + u or command + u on a Mac
and then you want to position your cursor
at the intersection of those two guidelines
and then press the alt key or the option key on the Mac
and click to bring up the ellipse dialog box
and we're looking for both
the width and height values to be 33pts.
At which point go ahead and click okay,
in order to accept that change.
Now I want to fill this guy with a gradient,
so I'm going to start things off
by changing the stroke up here in the control panel to none.
Then I'll make sure my fill is active in the swatches panel.
I'm gonna once again get rid of that cold group right there.
And I really should delete it from my template
and that is something you can do.
You can control exactly which swatches come up
by modifying your template file.
But for now I'll just go ahead and alt or option click
on the trash icon to get rid of that group without a warning
Then if I you have access to my exercise files,
then you'll want to load another swatch library
by clicking on the library icon
in the bottom left corner of the swatches panel
and choosing Other Library.
And then go ahead and navigate your way to
that 28 dynamic effects folder
in which you'll find a file called Flower swatches.ai
and then click the open button
in order to load those swatches
and they include just one color group called Flower Colors
Just go ahead and click on its folder icon
in order to load that color group into your swatches panel
After which point you can go ahead
and hide those panels if you like.
Now go to the window menu and choose the gradient command
in order to bring up the gradient panel
and I'll grab this dark purple right here
and you can see the values
in case you need to dial them in yourself
those are RGB values by the way.
And in the case of this color we've got R:38
G:0 and B:77
Now just go ahead and drag and drop that guy
to the beginning of the gradient right there,
and then I'll grab the other purple,
and you can look at those values for yourself
and I'll drag and drop it to the end of the gradient
and then I'll change the type from linear to radial.
For now, that's all I need to do inside the gradient panel
so I'll just go ahead and switch to the stroke panel
to give myself a little more room
Alright, now I want to turn this circle into petals
and you can do that by going into the Effect menu,
choosing Distort and Transform
and choosing this command right there, Pucker and Bloat
and the idea behind the command is pretty simple
just go ahead and turn on the preview checkbox,
at first you won't see anything
because the value is 0%.
But notice that we have a pucker on one side
and bloat on the other.
So if you drag this slider to the left,
which ends up creating a negative value
you'll basically pinch the shape in,
in order to create a so-called pucker effect.
Whereas if you go with the positive value
by dragging the slider triangle to the right
then you will create a bloat effect
which ends up creating our flower petals
I'm looking for a bloat value of 30%
at which point I'll go ahead and click okay.
Now just go ahead and press the v key
to switch to my black arrow tool.
And now notice, if you will,
that we're seeing one bloat for each segment.
So because the circle has four segments,
we're seeing four bloats
I want to increase that number
and you can do that by going to the Object menu,
choosing Path, and then choosing Add Anchor Points.
And this command by the way
always doubles the number of anchor points
in the path outline
without modifying the fundamental shape of that path.
So by choosing it in the case of a circle,
I send the number of segments
from four to eight which results in eight petals.
Now I really want 16 petals
and I could accomplish that by returning to the object menu,
once again choosing Path,
and then choosing Add Anchor Points
but then I get a really spiky effect
which is not what I want.
So I'll go ahead and press ctrl + z
or command + z on a Mac
and instead what I'm gonna do is go to the Effect menu,
choose Distort & Transform,
and not for the last time in this course
I'll choose the Transform command.
So let's say I wanna rotate this shape.
If I were to change the angle value to 360 divided by 8,
so slash eight, and press the tab key
I would get 45 degrees.
At which point if I turn on the preview checkbox
its not really gonna look any different
and that's because I rotated one petal onto another.
So what I need to do is change it to half that,
so either 45 divided by 2 which gets me 22.5 degrees
or I could change it to 360 divided by 16
for 16 petals and press the tab key
I'm gonna get the same value,
I just want you to see how I reached it.
And then make sure that centerpoint is selected
inside the little reference point matrix
and click into copies value and take it up to one.
so that we double the number of petals like so,
and then click ok.
Alright, so much for our base petals.
In the next movie
we'll begin turning this very simple shape
into this much more complicated effect.