- [Voiceover] In this movie
we'll begin the creation of
this wild background.
That's all based on a single strait line.
And we'll create this effect
the way you really go about doing so
through experimentation.
And one of the great things about graphic styles
is that they allow you to experiment without penalty.
All right, I'll go ahead and switch over to this document
right here and I'll zoom out
so that I can see the entire
art board with its bleed
and I'll go ahead and click on that rectangle
and press the Backspace key,
or the Delete key on Mac, to get rid of it.
Next I'll go up to the view menu
and I'll turn on my smart guides,
which are currently turned off,
you may recall that you can turn
them on and off by pressing Control + U
or Command + U on the Mac.
And now I'll grab my line segment tool
which I can select from the line tool fly-out menu
and I'll drag from one corner to the other
specifically, from the top left corner
to the bottom right corner
and now, I'll go ahead and change the line weight,
up here in the control panel to two points,
like so,
and I don't want all this flashing on screen.
So I'll press Control + U or Command + U on Mac
to turn the smart guides back off.
All right, now I want to rotate
this line all the way around,
so my background is just filled with lines
and I'm going to do that
by going up to the Effect menu,
choosing Distort & Transform,
and choosing the Transform command.
And I don't want to assign the setting to just a stroke
I want to assign it to the entire path.
And so what I'm going to do
is change the angle value to just two degrees.
All right, now I'll turn on the preview check box
so that we can see that line move ever so slightly,
and now I'm going to click in the Copies value
and press Shift + Up Arrow a bunch of times
to start rotating as many copies as I need.
And at 80 copies you can see
that we're pretty close to filling in the gap
and it actually takes 81, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine copies
in order to do the trick.
And there's a reason for that by the way,
think of it this way,
we're going in two degree increments
and if it were one degree it would only take a 180
of these things to wrap all the way around
because we're only trying to describe a half circle
cause we're rotating around the center point
there, as indicated by that reference point matrix.
And so because we're rotating two degrees
we only have 90 degrees that we need to fill in
and so one original plus 89
gives you 90.
So, if that makes any sense
that's the way it works.
but in any case, click OK, to accept that change.
All right, now let's tryout a few tricks.
Let's see what happens if we start to spin
or twist or vibrate these lines.
And so, first go up to the Effect menu,
choose Distort and Transform, and choose twist.
And, I'm going to set this guide to a 100 degrees,
and turn on the preview check box
and I end up getting this fantastic effect right here.
I like that, I'm going to click OK to accept that change
now, I want the Transform to happen before the Twist
and to make that happen I'll go ahead and drag
Transform up to the top of the panel like so
and I end up getting a slightly different effect.
Now let's say I'm not sure this is what I want
but this is definitely something I like.
Well, in that case why not save it out as a
graphic style by clicking on this icon right here
to bring up the graphic Styles Panel
and now I'll press the Alt key,
or the Option key on a Mac,
and click on the little page icon
and I'll call this guy spinning lines, let's say
and then I'll click OK.
All right, as I say I'm not sure that twist effect
is what I'm looking for so I'm going to select it
and delete it here inside the Appearance panel
by clicking in the Trash icon.
And I can do that with all assurance
because after all I saved that effect
as a graphic style and now I'll try a new one
by going to the Effect menu choosing
Distort and Transform and choosing Zig Zag
and this time I came up with a size value
of two points and we might as well look at it,
as I apply, it so we'll turn on
the preview check box.
That's not nearly enough ridges for segment,
however, so I'll take that value up to a 100
because after all we only have one segment
in this single segment line.
And that'll give us a lot of zigging and zagging
and then I'll switch to smooth here
in order to create these smooth lines
and now I'll click OK and
I love that, so I'll save that effect
by Alt or Option clicking on a little page icon
at the bottom of the Graphic Styles panel
and I'll call this one Waving Lines and I'll click OK.
Not sure if that's really the effect I want however
so I'll select Zig Zag in the Appearance panel
and I'll click on the Trash icon to get rid of it.
And then I'll return to the Effect menu
choose Distort and Transform and choose,
this time, the Roughen command and I'll turn
on the preview check box.
That's way too much roughness I think
so I'll switch to absolute so we're no longer
working with a relative percentage but rather
an absolute measurement of points
now I'm going to take that value down
to four points and then I'm going to tab to
the Detail value and press Shift + Up Arrow
a couple of times in order to take it up to
30 per inches so 30 little ridges
per inches in other-words, at which point,
I could switch to smooth.
But it doesn't make much difference
so I'm going to stick with Corner
which should ostensibly be easier
and now I'll click OK.
Now I want you to notice something
if I had applied Roughen before Transform,
and remember, the first effect is at the top
the last effect is at the bottom.
So if I applied Roughen first
then Transform would just go ahead and
repeat that same Roughen effect
the thing is Roughen is a random effect
and so if you want to make sure
every line is different you need to
apply Transform first to the lines
and then Roughen afterwards to that result.
In which case, every single line is different.
Love it, so I'm going to save it
by Alt or Option clicking on that Page icon
and I'm going to call this guy
Vibrating Lines, let's say, and click OK.
And now if I ever want to revisit an effect
all I have to do is click on one of these Styles
either Spinning Lines, in order to produce
this kind of wild vortex,
which is a little bit bumpy in places you'll note,
which I think is actually pretty great.
Compare that with of course Waving Lines,
which gets us this effect here
and then finally Vibrating Lines.
Which employs the Roughen effect.
And that's how you experiment with
Dynamic Effects so that you can learn
what you're doing with absolutely no penalty
using Graphic Styles here inside Illustrator.