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- [Voiceover] Alright

these next movies represent



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a real deep dive into dynamic effects.



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And you're gonna either

leave this project feeling



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completely amazed and

absolutely inspired to see



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what else you can do because

it really is endless,



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or you're gonna get sick and tired



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of my navel gazing and move on.



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But either way you're gonna have a sense



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for the real power of these functions.



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So what we're gonna do here is



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we're gonna create what I'm calling



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these flowering vectors,



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and the truly amazing thing about this,



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is this is all dynamic

effects, all the time.



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and so if you were to

go up to the view menu



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and choose the Outline

command, or press ctrl + y



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or command + y on a Mac you

would see that all we have here



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are two identically sized

circles and nothing more.



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But if I press ctrl + z

or command + z on a Mac



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to undo that move and

then I press ctrl + y



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or command + y on a Mac to

switch back to the preview mode



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you can see that those

circles blossomed into petals



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and then later on we'll turn it into



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a kind of spiky-origami effect.



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Now this is another one of those projects



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that we are going to create

entirely from scratch.



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So I'm gonna start off by

going up to the file menu



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and choosing New From Template,



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or of course you can ctrl + shift + n



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or command + shift + n on the Mac



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and then I'll just go ahead



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and double-click on that

center guides document.



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Now, I'll go to the Shape tool flyout menu



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and select the ellipse tool



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and then I'll turn on my smart guides



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by choosing the Smart Guides

command from the view menu



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or pressing ctrl + u

or command + u on a Mac



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and then you want to position your cursor



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at the intersection of

those two guidelines



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and then press the alt key

or the option key on the Mac



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and click to bring up

the ellipse dialog box



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and we're looking for both



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the width and height values to be 33pts.



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At which point go ahead and click okay,



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in order to accept that change.



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Now I want to fill this

guy with a gradient,



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so I'm going to start things off



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by changing the stroke up here

in the control panel to none.



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Then I'll make sure my fill is

active in the swatches panel.



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I'm gonna once again get rid

of that cold group right there.



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And I really should

delete it from my template



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and that is something you can do.



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You can control exactly

which swatches come up



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by modifying your template file.



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But for now I'll just go

ahead and alt or option click



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on the trash icon to get rid

of that group without a warning



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Then if I you have access

to my exercise files,



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then you'll want to load

another swatch library



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by clicking on the library icon



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in the bottom left corner

of the swatches panel



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and choosing Other Library.



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And then go ahead and navigate your way to



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that 28 dynamic effects folder



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in which you'll find a file

called Flower swatches.ai



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and then click the open button



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in order to load those swatches



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and they include just one color

group called Flower Colors



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Just go ahead and click on its folder icon



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in order to load that color

group into your swatches panel



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After which point you can go ahead



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and hide those panels if you like.



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Now go to the window menu and

choose the gradient command



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in order to bring up the gradient panel



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and I'll grab this dark purple right here



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and you can see the values



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in case you need to dial them in yourself



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those are RGB values by the way.



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And in the case of this

color we've got R:38



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G:0 and B:77



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Now just go ahead and

drag and drop that guy



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to the beginning of the

gradient right there,



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and then I'll grab the other purple,



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and you can look at

those values for yourself



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and I'll drag and drop it

to the end of the gradient



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and then I'll change the

type from linear to radial.



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For now, that's all I need to

do inside the gradient panel



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so I'll just go ahead and

switch to the stroke panel



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to give myself a little more room



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Alright, now I want to turn

this circle into petals



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and you can do that by

going into the Effect menu,



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choosing Distort and Transform



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and choosing this command

right there, Pucker and Bloat



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and the idea behind the

command is pretty simple



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just go ahead and turn

on the preview checkbox,



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at first you won't see anything



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because the value is 0%.



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But notice that we have

a pucker on one side



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and bloat on the other.



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So if you drag this slider to the left,



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which ends up creating a negative value



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you'll basically pinch the shape in,



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in order to create a

so-called pucker effect.



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Whereas if you go with the positive value



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by dragging the slider

triangle to the right



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then you will create a bloat effect



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which ends up creating our flower petals



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I'm looking for a bloat value of 30%



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at which point I'll go

ahead and click okay.



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Now just go ahead and press the v key



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to switch to my black arrow tool.



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And now notice, if you will,



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that we're seeing one

bloat for each segment.



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So because the circle has four segments,



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we're seeing four bloats



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I want to increase that number



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and you can do that by

going to the Object menu,



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choosing Path, and then

choosing Add Anchor Points.



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And this command by the way



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always doubles the number of anchor points



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in the path outline



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without modifying the

fundamental shape of that path.



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So by choosing it in the case of a circle,



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I send the number of segments



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from four to eight which

results in eight petals.



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Now I really want 16 petals



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and I could accomplish that by

returning to the object menu,



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once again choosing Path,



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and then choosing Add Anchor Points



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but then I get a really spiky effect



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which is not what I want.



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So I'll go ahead and press ctrl + z



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or command + z on a Mac



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and instead what I'm gonna

do is go to the Effect menu,



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choose Distort & Transform,



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and not for the last time in this course



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I'll choose the Transform command.



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So let's say I wanna rotate this shape.



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If I were to change the angle

value to 360 divided by 8,



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so slash eight, and press the tab key



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I would get 45 degrees.



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At which point if I turn

on the preview checkbox



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its not really gonna look any different



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and that's because I rotated

one petal onto another.



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So what I need to do is

change it to half that,



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so either 45 divided by 2

which gets me 22.5 degrees



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or I could change it to 360 divided by 16



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for 16 petals and press the tab key



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I'm gonna get the same value,



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I just want you to see how I reached it.



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And then make sure that

centerpoint is selected



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inside the little reference point matrix



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and click into copies value

and take it up to one.



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so that we double the

number of petals like so,



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and then click ok.



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Alright, so much for our base petals.



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In the next movie



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we'll begin turning this very simple shape



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into this much more complicated effect.