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Creating a dynamic cube of cubes - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator One-on-One: Advanced
Creating a dynamic cube of cubes
- [Instructor] All right. In this movie, we're going to create our cube of cubes and we're going to do so entirely dynamically. So all we have here is three path outlines, those same three paths that we created in the previous movie. Everything else is a dynamic effect. All right. So I'll go ahead and switch over to our base cube right here. And I'm going to zoom out by pressing Control + zero or Command + zero on the Mac. And we want to start off by adding some custom guides. So go ahead and turn on your guidance layer and select the layer as well. Make sure that it's active if you're working along with me. And then go ahead and grab your line segment tool, and you want to click right there at the bottom of the cube in order to bring up this dialog box. And this time we're going to set the length value to 600 points, so it's very big value, indeed. And we're going to set the angle value to 30 degrees. And the reason it's…
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My favorite features in all of Illustrator1m 37s
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Applying and expanding a dynamic effect5m 31s
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Drawing an orthogonal cube4m 25s
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Creating a dynamic cube of cubes7m 32s
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Busting up and coloring the cubes5m 37s
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Adding glows and shadows with Outer Glow7m 55s
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Targeting the contents of a group5m 5s
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Clipping effects inside objects3m 52s
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Creating flower petals with Pucker & Bloat6m
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Scale, rotate, and duplicate in one operation4m 52s
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Document Raster Effects settings6m 20s
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Alternating the colors of repeated objects8m 13s
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Creating an origami effect with Zig Zag4m 9s
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Duplicating effects between fills6m 20s
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Swapping out colors in dynamic art5m 16s
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Dynamic repeats: Mirror and Radial4m 9s
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