- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll demonstrate
how to work with the Zig Zag filter,
and you may recall we first saw Zig Zag
when I was showing you how to add a kind of grassy effect
to the Angry Bird graphic back in chapter 23,
and we ended up going with Roughen,
but we saw Zig Zag on the way, and so this time around
we're gonna use it to spike the flower petals
in order to create this kind of Origami effect,
and I just love this part of the project.
I think you will too.
All right, so the first thing I'm gonna do
is click out here in the petals
in order to select the rear of the two circle,
and you can tell it's the rear one
because it has a total of eight anchor points,
you might be able to just barely make that out,
and it has a ton of fills here inside the Appearance panel,
so make sure the Path is selected
and you can go ahead and twirl close
any fills that are open by the way,
and then go up to the Effect menu,
choose Distort & Transform, and choose Zig Zag,
and then you can go ahead and turn on the Preview checkbox
in order to see just the absolute wonderful mess
that it makes of this graphic.
Now you can select from either Corner or Smooth by the way,
and if you go with Smooth, you're gonna create
virtual smooth points on the fly,
whereas if you go with Corner,
you're gonna get nothing but corner points
connected by straight segments.
All right now, I'm gonna click on the size value here,
and I'm gonna press the down arrow key
in order to reduce the size, and you can see
that just small modifications make big differences
where this effect is concerned,
and in the end I took the size value down to 2 pt,
and by the way notice that Absolute is selected.
If you select Relative instead, then the value's gonna be
measured as a percent of the existing segments
inside the shape, but I want Absolute
so again I'll go ahead and switch back to it,
and then you can also determine how many ridges
per segment you have, and in this case I'm taking
the number of ridges down as you might be able to see
and at one we get this more or less
continuous effect right here, which is very interesting
but not really what I want, so I'll go ahead
and take that value back up until I get to five,
and you can see just again very small modifications
make huge differences in the final effects
so definitely play around with this one,
but again I landed on a value of five ridges per segment
at which point I'll click OK to accept that change,
and by the way you wanna make sure Zig Zag
is applied after Pucker & Bloat,
so again can't emphasize this enough,
we're seeing the effects from the top-down
in terms of their order so Transform is applied first,
then Pucker & Bloat, and then Zig Zag.
If you were to move Zig Zag above Pucker & Bloat,
you would get this very different effect right here,
which is still amazing but not what I want,
so I'll just go ahead and press Ctrl + Z,
or Cmd + Z on the Mac, to undo that change.
All right, now what we wanna do
is modify the Pucker & Bloat effect
by clicking on the words Pucker & Bloat
here inside the Appearance panel
and then of course turn on the Preview checkbox
and click inside that value there
and press the down arrow key, and you'll see
that the effect is beginning to more or less merge
at about 20% right there, but I decided
to keep reducing that value, and at about 12%
it struck me that it looked like an Origami effect
because we have these little bits of folded paper.
The problem is, every other one of these guys
has the wrong color inside of it, and that's just a function
of how the effect is put together, and so I went ahead
and took that value down even further
to finally 8%, although you can
definitely go further if you want to.
You can even go into Pucker territory if you want
and notice how well just a moment ago
things aligned with each other
when the value was set to just 0%.
We end up getting this perfect Zig Zag.
Not what I want though so I'll go ahead
and take it up to 8% once again,
and then I'll click OK in order to accept that change.
All right, now I'll press Control + Shift + A,
or Cmd + Shift + A on the Mac,
in order to deselect my artwork,
and that is how you create a kind of folded paper
Origami effect using the Zig Zag filter
combined with Pucker & Bloat here inside Illustrator.