- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you
how to combine dynamic symbols with dynamic effects
and so, again, you'll need to be using
the most recent version of Illustrator CC 2015 or later
in order to pull this off and what we're gunna do
is take our dynamic sun so far and we're gunna pile on
some dynamic effects in order to create these two
over the top effects right here
and while these effects might be a little bit silly,
they at least show you what you can do.
Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my document
so far and I'll click on the purple face
but I did so with a black arrow tool
so that's not gunna do me any good.
I need to press the A key to switch to the white arrow tool
and then if I click again, notice I'm seeing
this square bounding box.
I don't want that so we'll click off the shape
to deselect it and then I'll click on that face again,
at which point I should see a purple outline
around this purple face and that's just a function
of the fact that my layer color is purple.
Of course, I could change that if I want to
but I can see the face is selected
and so I'll go up to the Effect menu,
choose Distort and Transform and then choose
the Transform command or, if you loaded dekekeys
and I'm assuming that you have,
then you have a keyboard shortcut
of control+E on the PC or command+E on the Mac
and I say I'm assuming you have because we're gunna
be coming back to this dialogue box a few times
and now I'm just gunna change the rotate value to 30 degrees
and I'll turn on the preview check box
and you can see that goes ahead
and rotates the face to a jaunty angle.
Alright, I'm gunna click okay and then I'll click
on this face, the orange one, which is now surrounded
by a thick purple outline and I'll go up to the Effect menu
and choose the second command, Transform...,
in order to revisit the very same rotate setting I applied
a moment ago and I'll just change it to negative
this time around, turn on the preview check box
and you can see that the orange face at least,
has been rotated to the opposite direction.
I'll go ahead and click okay and the reason
that the purple outline has not been rotated
is because this is a dynamic effect
and so we're just seeing the original path outline
right there until I click off the shape to deselect it.
Alright, so that's a pretty simple example
of what you can do.
Let's see something a little bit more elaborate.
I'll go ahead and click on the sun rays
and I'll go up to the Effect menu,
choose Distort and Transform and I'm gunna choose Twist,
although, of course, you can apply any dynamic effect
you want and I came up with an angle value of 360 degrees,
at which point I'll turn on the preview checkbox
and you can see that twists these rays like crazy
and now I'll click okay and now let's say I want to add
a second group of twisty rays as we're seeing
in the final version of the document.
In that case, I need to go up to the Window menu
and choose the Appearance command to bring up
the Appearance panel and then I'll just go ahead
and click on this orange fill and I'll create a duplicate
of it by clicking on a little page icon at the bottom
of the Appearance panel and now I'll go ahead
and select the original fill down here at the bottom
and I'll change it to this dark shade
of red that begins R=193.
That's not gunna make any difference because, after all,
this red fill is in back of the orange one
and so, with that fill selected, I'll just go ahead
and press control+E or command+E on a Mac to bring up
the Transform Effect dialogue box.
Now, if you were to count the number of rays
which is a little bit easier with this guy in the right
is concerned, you would find that there's twelve in all
and so to rotate this guy so we can see it,
I first need to take 360, so, 360 degrees make a circle,
divided by 12, so 12 rays and then I'll press the tab key
and that gives me an angle value of 30 degrees.
If I turn on the preview checkbox,
you can see that that just creates
some new rays if you look very closely here.
Some new red rays behind the orange ones.
What I really want to do is rotate these guys
half another degree that is in between,
so I'll take this 30 degree angle and divide it by two,
so slash two, press the tab key
and that gives me an angle value of 15 degrees,
which makes these rays visible,
at which point I'll click okay.
Alright, now I'm gunna press control+H or command+H
on a Mac in order to hide
those selection edges for a moment.
The rays are still selected, bare that in mind,
and so I'll go ahead and zoom in a little bit.
Let's say you want to fill this area in between.
That is in between the face and the rays with red,
then you take this red fill and make a copy of it
by clicking on the little page icon at the bottom
of the Appearance panel and then go ahead
and select the bottom red fill, click on the word Transform
and click on the trash can
to get rid of it because we don't need that.
What we need to do is select this fill once again
and convert it to a circle by going up to the Effect menu,
choose Convert Shape and choose Ellipse and I do not want
Relative to be selected because that's gunna give us
this ginormous circle that we're seeing right here.
So I'll select Absolute instead.
These values are not big enough
and so with the preview check box on so that I can see
what I'm doing, I'll just go ahead and set the width value
to fifty points and I'll set the height value
to 50 points as well and that fills in that area,
but it also fills in the face and so to take care of that
I'll click okay and then I'll go ahead
and create a copy of this latest fill by clicking
on the little page icon once again
and now notice we have a bunch of fills here
and so you might need to twirl some of these guys closed
just to give yourself some space here
and then take this middle fill right here,
this middle red fill and change it to white, for starters.
Now, notice it's too big.
It's covering the red fill and so I'll click
on the word Ellipse and I'll change both of these values
to 30 points which will give me white inside the face,
at which point I'll click okay.
Alright, now let's see what we can do with the other guy
and this is absolutely superfluous at this point.
You don't have to follow along if you don't want to,
in other words but I just want to give you a sense
for what you can do and so I'll click on
these blue rays to select them.
I'm not seeing a selection line and that's because
I would need to press control+H
or command+H on a Mac to bring it back.
So notice we now have thick purple edges
around those blue rays.
I don't want to see them though,
so I'm gunna press control+H or command+H
on a Mac to hide them once again
and then I'll go up to the Effect menu,
choose Distort and Transform
and this time I'll choose pucker and bloat
and I'll turn on the preview check box
and I'll click in this numerical value right here
and I'll press shift+up arrow, let's say a total
of five times, so take that value up to 50%
and I'll click okay in order to accept that setting
and now I once again want to rotate a copy
of a different color and so I'll click on this fill
right here, this blue fill and I'll click on
the little page icon and create a copy of it
and then I'll click on the bottom of the two fills
and I'll change it to this shade of green
that begins with R=34, but, really up to you of course.
Can't see it and that's cause we need to rotate it
by making sure this fill is selected
and then I'll just press said dekekeys keyboard shortcut
of control+E or command+E on a Mac and I'll change
the angle value, I just happen to know now
having done it in the past, to 15 degrees
and if I turn on the preview check box you can see
that that goes and rotates a copy of that green fill
so that we can see it, at which point I'll click okay.
Again, I want to cover up this area in the middle,
so I'll create a copy of this green fill
by once again clicking on the little page icon
at the bottom of the panel with this bottom fill selected,
so I'll go ahead and click on it.
Actually I want to click on it's transform
and I want to get rid of it by clicking
on that little trash icon
and then I'll click on this green fill again
and I'll go up to the Effect menu and I'll choose
Convert to Shape and choose Ellipse.
Once again I get the default setting
so I'll select Absolute and I'll change both
of these values here, width and height
to 50 points, like so.
Turn on the preview checkbox
I can see that does a pretty good job of filling things in,
at which point I'll click okay
and now I want to protect the face so I'll create a copy
of this guy by clicking on the little page icon.
I'll select this green fill in the middle here
and I'll change it to white and then I'll click
on the word Ellipse and I'll change both the width
and height values to 30 points this time around
so I'm just filling in the face and I'll click okay.
Now that doesn't really do what I want it to.
I'd actually want to move this up the stack
so it's covering everybody
if I want to protect that face like so.
So that's one way to work or I could reduce this pucker
and bloat value which is actually assigned
to the entire shape so it's gunna effect all the fills
and so I'll go ahead and click on pucker and bloat
and I'll turn on the preview check box
and I'll take this value down from 50%
by pressing shift+down arrow a couple of times
to just 30% like so and then I'll click okay
in order to accept that change
and, just for fun, I'll go ahead and zoom in
on our most recent example and so, whatever you think
of the aesthetics of what I've come up with,
those are a couple of, what I think,
illuminating examples of what you can do
by combining dynamic effects along with dynamic symbols
here inside the most recent version
of Illustrator CC 2015 or later.