- [Narrator] In this movie we'll take that logo
of interwoven rings and we'll weave it
into an even larger ring like so.
First thing we want to do is
duplicate this layer to protect it from harm.
And so, with the Big Loops layer,
in my case selected in the Layers panel,
I didn't actually make this layer in the previous movie
but it would've been a good idea had I done so.
I'm going to click on the fly-on
menu icon in the top right corner of the Layers panel
and choose Duplicate Big Loops
and then I'll turn off the original.
If you're working along with me
and need to make this layer, just duplicate
your top layer whatever it's called.
Then, I'll double click on an empty portion
of that layer and I will call it 60.74%
for reasons that will become apparent in just a moment.
And then I'll change its color to
let's say yellow, should work out and then I'll click OK.
Alright now, I want to turn on my Guides layer once again.
And select it by the way because we need
to create a new polygonal guideline
and you can do that by selecting the polygon tool
from the Shape Tool fly-out menu.
And then you want to position your cursor
at the intersection of those two center guides and click
in order to bring up the polygon dialogue box.
We're looking for a total of eight sides
and just for the sake of having a round number
I set the radius value to 200 points
at which point I'll click OK to create that
new octagon and then I'll right-click anywhere in
the document window and choose the Make Guides command
in order to convert it to a guideline on the Guides layer.
And the reason I'm creating an octagon
is if you take a look at the final logo ring,
you can see that there are a total of eight @ signs in all.
Alright I'll go ahead and switch back to
my document in progress and then I'll select that
60.74 layer and this time I'll switch to the Ellipse Tool.
Now, what we need to do is fit this design
to this right edge of the polygon right here.
And so we're going to need some measurements
to make things work and so I'll just click
with the Ellipse Tool in order to
bring up the Ellipse dialogue box.
You may recall that the smallest circle originally measured
100 points wide by 100 points tall.
But then I scaled it to a 144%
and so if we take 100 and multiply it
so, I'll enter an asterisk, and then 1.44 which
is the same thing as 144% then I will get
a width value of 144 points and I want
the height value to be 144 points as well.
At which point I'll click OK to accept that change.
And then I'll just change the fill to a shade
of red so I can better keep track of the shape.
Alright now I'll press the V key to switch back
to my Black Arrow tool and I'll drag this top
anchor point until it snaps into alignment
with the top of that top central circle.
Alright now I'll press Control+A
or Command+A on a Mac to select everything.
You want to make sure, by the way,
that your guides are locked down.
So if you go to the View menu and choose Guides,
then a second command should read Unlock Guides.
That tells you that they are currently locked.
If it says Lock Guides instead then choose that command.
In any event, after doing so, you want to drag this guide
by the center point and so you're going to have to zoom
in so you can find the center point of the circle.
Not this very close by anchor point, that's associated
with the @ sign, you want this guy right here.
So, drag by this center point and you want to
snap into alignment with the top of that right-hand
edge in order to produce this effect here.
Alright, now I'm going to zoom out a little bit
and I'll go ahead and click off my saves to deselect them
and I'll select that red circle.
And I'll go ahead and scroll down a little bit.
And then I'll drag it by its bottom anchor point while
pressing the Shift key until it snaps into alignment with
that inner bottom circle and that'll tell you
the distance between the two circles.
And to see what that is just press the Enter key or the
Return key on a Mac to bring up the Move dialogue box.
At which point you can see that we have a vertical value
of 252 points, your horizontal value should be zero.
Alright, I just want you to remember that value.
In fact, you can just go ahead and copy it if
you want to by selecting it and hitting
Control+C or Command+C on the Mac.
Alright now go ahead and undo the movement
of that red circle and this time we're going to
drag it by its center point so go ahead
and grab the center point and drag it down
until the circle snaps into alignment with
the bottom of the right side of the octagon.
And that'll tell you the distance between
these two points right here and to see
what that is press the Enter key or the Return key
on a Mac to bring up the Move dialogue box
once again at which point I'm seeing a vertical
value of 153.0734 points; that's fine.
All you want to do is press the slash key right there.
And then press Control+V or Command+V on the Mac
so that we're taking this value and dividing it
by the one we just copied and then press the Tab key.
So we're making Illustrator do the math for us
and notice that we end up with 0.6074
which is the same as 60.74%, hence the name of the layer.
In any event, just go ahead and select that value.
So don't select zero point, just press 6074 right there
and press Control+C or Command+C
on the Mac to copy that value.
Alright now what you want to do is zoom out a little bit
and go up to the Select menu choose the Inverse command
and that way you'll deselect the circle
and you'll select everything else.
And then go ahead and switch to
the Scale tool which you can get by pressing the
S key and I'm going to zoom in right here at
the top of the right edge of the octagon.
And I'm going to Alt or Option click at that point
to bring up the Scale dialogue box.
And now you want to pace that value that you
just copied and then enter a decimal point between
the 60 and the 74 because a decimal value
of .6074 is the same as 60.74%.
So you always move the decimal point
over a couple of digits.
So now I'll press the tab key in order to apply that value.
Notice that I have a problem, which I can see
because my Preview checkbox is turned on and
that's that I'm not scaling the strokes so
you need to turn on that Scale Strokes and Effects
checkbox after which point, click OK in order
to apply that change and you can see that that worked
out beautifully because the @ sign
is now centered inside that red circle.
Now we don't really need the red circle,
so press the V key to switch to
the Black Arrow tool, click on the red circle to
select it and press the Backspace key
or the Delete key on a Mac to get rid of it.
Alright now I'll press Control+0
or Command+0 on a Mac to center my zoom.
And now what we need to do is make
a couple of copies of these guys.
So go ahead and click on any one of the rings like so.
And then go up to this icon right here
Select Similar Objects and click on it
in order to select all the strokes.
And notice that goes ahead and selects all the
rings without selecting the @ symbols,
at which point, you want to switch to the Rotate Tool
which you can get by pressing the R key
and then you want to position your cursor
at the intersection of those two center guides
and Alt or Option click to bring up the Rotate dialogue box.
Then change the angle value to 90 degrees and click copy
in order to create a copy of those paths.
Just to distinguish them from the originals,
over here on the right hand side,
I'll change the color of the strokes to let's say red.
It's going to work out just fine.
I however want these shapes to appear in back
so I'll right-click anywhere in the document window,
choose Arrange and then choose Send to Back
or you have that shortcut of Control+Shift+left bracket
or Command+Shift+left bracket on a Mac.
Now we need to create another copy,
once again using the Rotate Tool.
So Alt or Option+click at the intersection
of those two center guides and this time,
change the angle value to 180 degrees
and click the Copy button.
And now, you can press the V key
to switch back to the Black Arrow Tool
and click off the paths to deselect it.
Alright now, that doesn't quite get us all the way there
but it does get us half the way
and so it turns out, what we need to do is
take these black rings right here
and whittle them away in order to
create these partial rings that we're seeing
in the final effect and I'm going to show you
how to do exactly that in the very next movie.