High in this video we're going to make this kind of effect where it's kind of 3D in gradient happening
it's very rich SRODES very in I don't really know what to call it and we'll do a couple of things we'll
look at some more advanced uses and we'll add a kind of a cool grain to it as well to kind of grunge
it up.
All right.
Let's go and do that now.
In a Toby illustrator.
All right.
Let's get started.
I've opened up blending two from the exercise files.
You really don't need to open it because just a great background.
And I have added some gradients which you might want to do regardless.
Let's stop we need to kind of things we need our gradient kind of line.
And then the shape that it's going to follow.
So it is truly a gradient.
First I'm going to draw an ellipse and fill it with one of the gradients that I've gotten here.
K has got no stroke.
It looks that way with a stroke.
So Phil any kind of gradient doesn't have to be this one.
I'm going to make a duplicate of it and then I want to blend it.
And we've been using different tools in this course.
Let's go for short cut time command option B on my keyboard.
Or if you on a PC is control alt B be that'll do the blending just automatically.
OK.
Double click the blending to and switch out the steps.
Now don't worry too much have at how many steps you do here and go high enough to go to 80.
So you know that looks quite nice.
You can start to see the banding it's ok don't worry too much about it at this stage because when we
attach the line we're going to have to adjust it quite a bit afterwards so don't worry too much about
it and I want a couple of copies.
I'm going to have a little copy of the media kapok piece.
All right.
Now we need the shape for it to follow.
I'm going to use my pins to KS underneath the shaper tool and double click my pins to cranked up the
smoothing and turned off.
Keep selected and click ok.
Just helps with the flow of it.
You could use a curvature to the pintu anything you like to K and I'm going to draw a squiggle k.
I had no stroke on case I'm going to get a stroke so you can see my amazing this and now I'm going to
get this to follow.
I said this like both of them and get an object go to blend and it's go to replace the spine and it's
kind of like that right.
And all we need to do is increase the steps.
Case I don't like the blend 2 and we're going to go quite high and we have to play around with how much
you want or don't want.
Of these little dots.
K if you want it to be super smooth you have to go quite high.
The only trouble with that though is that you do run into potentially stressing your whole machine out
and how high can I go before my machine dies thousand turns up.
It's like a game.
So you probably maybe in my.
I drew quite a long line.
What you might do is draw a line so those thousands it work fine.
All right I've practiced loads on this one and taught it loads and it always comes out better than that.
I feel like we failed there and you can also do hand drawing type.
OK so let's quickly do that and we'll look at some of the extra options like you saw at the beginning.
So pins with two stroke no pink white.
And it doesn't have to be one continuous line only.
I wish I had my way home with me today.
I'm stuck in this snow day today so that's why the order sounds a little different.
I'm stuck inside an hour or second my home office CO.
That's as good as it's going to get with the mouse.
All right so there is one two three four different ones.
So for this to work we need four of these in total K.
Can you fill those and I'm going to go.
I'll keep a backup for as a backup.
Am I going to pick a different gradients.
K now.
At the moment it's really hard to adjust because they're kind of stuck in a blend.
What you can do is you can double click these guys to go inside.
OK I'm inside this plane and I going to pick the first and last guy.
You don't have to have the same things.
OK they can change over time.
Let's see what that looks like.
I'm so we'll change this first one too.
It's kind of bluey green.
We'll see what these changes do to come out.
Double click that area a few times and now I don't want you guys on this new fella.
So a duplicate one use actual cats Kamandi will control the PC to duplicate it.
OK now you didn't really matter where they are.
OK and you.
Let's blame the object Blinn replace spline quha.
Now also what you might do is this guy here is a bit big maybe.
K.
And so you can change it now and he can never know it's kind of like a line white.
Or are you a strict white.
So let's go again.
I was going to have to do is with this guy selected and let's go to.
Don't like the blending to an unspecified steps.
You can get a specified distance and go.
Actually I want this to be like just one point away.
Click preview and freak it out a little bit and it will just kind of keep them one point away rather
than a mound of steps but do make sure you expand this at the end because it's an active effect and
constrictive getting out already.
My fans already come on.
So a few things that we can do to make this why she I'm going to fast for now to have the whole damn
thing done.
So let's go and phosphor for it now.
I'll write you back k am so a couple things I want to show you is kind of tidy because things are up
is with the selected often you want to play around with object blend and who's at the front and who's
at the back if you reverse the front back you can like that's kind of more what I was looking for.
And with all of these guys too I like that.
I'm not sure.
And there's a lot of kind of trial and error here.
So object play and refrains from back.
Yeah.
Bits of it I like bits it's about I don't think you can do is you can edit it.
OK so I like to go to command y all control y on a PC and you can edit a couple of things the splines
and the and the kind of circles that we're using for blending going to grab my white Eric Metrix listen
to and let's say that I want this kind of whipped to be like a lot bigger and when I'm maybe pintu and
I'm I'm going a little bit
too much time he has the Cuvier not the Kivi that bit but you know you can you can spin a bit more time
here.
Fixing these up.
Also these guys here.
Now I've got to beginning and ending shape right.
So actually let's go.
Come on.
Why.
So we've kind of fixed that one.
You can play around the beginning and ending shape.
So I'm going to zoom in.
I grab my Erato on him.
I'm going to try and look at him with my black error when I double click on him to go inside of him
and that I can be a lot bigger.
Have a look man why they don't have to be the same size they are kind of a feller that sets crapolla
looks like a neon credible and what else can we do.
Sometimes what I like to do is see this bad one here like it's not my favorite parts.
And what I like to do with the gradients is let's go inside this once I get a double take the edge double
click it until I double click it and come inside the play and I can see the fill here.
What I like to do is go to my fill grading options and maybe just tuck that in a little bit right and
add another one so I just click.
So I just drag that one and then click some way down here and it makes a new swatch of double click
that swatch and go to my favorite hue saturation and brightness and just drag down a little bit.
What's happening here it gives it a kind of fun sometimes it just needs a little bit of that to kind
of get the depth right.
OK.
And there's a better.
It's not much better but it's got a bit more 3D shininess to it you can add a little bit of highlight
on one side just really slow then of white can look quite cool when you finished you don't like this
area.
Sheen is struggling.
I go in now and the other thing I'll just talk about it doesn't every circle is right and you can squeeze
triangles stars that don't have to be the same things one could be a circle one could be a star and
you get some really cool effects.
Wasing I want to do is I want to show you some kind of grain.
This one here.
Now if you're finding like mine it's stressing out and you're happy with it and you're like man that's
that's the kind of thing I wanted to do.
And I think I like the way you can Slichter or can you do all one big-O object blend and we're going
to go to expand.
OK.
And is it better.
What happens is it's lots of shapes but it's going to be less stressful on this computer than the Blin
mode trying to do it.
The only trouble is it's not kind of it at all like it was before it's just the zillions of little shapes.
So adding a bit of grain hides some of the bending and just looks kind of goes like film grain type
of thing.
And we do it this way.
So we're going to grab the rectangle too.
OK.
And we're going to draw a rectangle over the whole thing because I want to kind of go across the grass
as well.
I'm going to fill it with white and I had no strik.
And it's in effect up here called effect down to does the texture and then go to grain gay and minds
kind of see it from when I was practicing before.
Mine's 40 by 50 it really depends on the size of the box that you're using what kind of grain you want
like the intensity.
Crank it up.
You can see kind of gets a bit more grainy.
Depends on the kind of look you're looking for.
You can play around what kind of grain.
There's all sorts of stuff you can do is click OK.
It doesn't quite work right.
You got this just big white box.
But memba alb blooming it's OK.
And remember because where is that right click on a PSAT or if you're an older version go to window
appearance click on a passerby and he a normal part would be multiply.
Everything works on multiply and play around with different ones.
But it just gives over cooked it.
I totally have but he get the idea there then I really want to go back and change this.
The cool thing about it it's an active effect so I can click on Green K and go back and say actually
then what it was kind of messing with it.
And let's have a look.
I feel like that's kind of a happy medium.
Maybe it's still a bit much but it's a bit of texture to your really strong Victor.
All right so it is class exercise time.
OK.
And it's going be pretty easy one to understand.
I want you to make your own name K and end all shapes.
K. I want to just see some 3-D blobby goodness maybe some catapults and yet and I'd like you to share
it on this Web site here as a project.
OK.
And but I'd love to see it on Twitter and Instagram.
So Instagram is bring your own laptop.
And Twitter is.
You probably got this burned into your heads now.
All right.
I will see you in the next video.
Bye now.