Hey there, in this video we are going to use Illustrator... 1
to make this kind of semi flat design. 2
We'll use these icons on the left to get started. 3
Then we'll do some more interesting things with the App Design on the right. 4
Let's go and learn how to do that now in Adobe Illustrator. 5
First up, open up the icons document in your exercise files. 6
What we're going to do is, we're not going to-- 7
these icons here, we're not going to kind of... 8
3D rotate them at the same time as these guys. 9
We want these to have an extreme depth. 10
We want these guys just to kind of plaster to the top. 11
So first of all I'm going to select all these circles. 12
So I can hold 'Shift' and keep clicking, so I'm going to do that. 13
I got them all selected. 14
What we're going to decide now is the effect you want. 15
So if I go to 'Effect', '3D', and go to 'Extrude & Bevel'... 16
when they're not grouped... 17
turn Preview 'on'. 18
What ends up happening is, these guys rotate, but kind of... 19
irrespective of the kind of total group-- 20
let's have a little look. I'll switch it this way around. 21
They're just kind of doing their own thing. 22
I'm going to do a little screenshot here so you can see what I mean... 23
because if I hit 'Cancel'... 24
and say I'm going to group them first, and go to 'Effect'-- 25
Actually I'll bring in that graphic, that's my screenshot. 26
We could use the magic of editing, Dan. 27
No, must do it all here. 28
So I've got this background, I've grouped it, the difference is... 29
if I go to '3D', and go to 'Extrude & Bevel'... 30
and I do the exact same thing; turn Preview 'on'. 31
Can you see, they are now... 32
there's more of an Isometric group. 33
I'll rotate you around. 34
Can you see the kind of... 35
know where eachother are in the world, whereas these are all individual. 36
Hopefully you get the idea. 37
So decide where you want to do it, where you want these things to lay down. 38
Decide on the depth, I'm going to have mine quite thin. 39
Try to forget looking at all the random circles everywhere. 40
I'll kind of try and steer through them. 41
So once you got a kind of how you want, you can decide as well-- 42
At the moment I'm going for this kind of linear flat, semi flat... 43
Isometric kind of drawing, where there's no perspective. 44
You could though go into here, and say... 45
actually I want Perspective, and crank it up. 46
So there's this kind of full depth. 47
You can play around with the lighting as well, and how this works... 48
but at the moment I'm going to turn 'off' the Perspective... 49
and have them like this. 50
I'll move mine right back to the top. 51
So we're kind of there. 52
Now we need to do the same thing with the icons... 53
but the icons use a different mode, so not using Extrude. 54
What we do need to do is, remember, these angles. 55
I'm going to take a screenshot of this, again... 56
using my, if you're on a Mac, it's 'Command-Shift-4'. 57
You can drag a box around that. Ends up on your desktop. 58
On a PC I think it's just 'Print Screen'. 59
You can just paste it into Illustrator. 60
Either way, let's click 'OK'. 61
We need to make sure these guys are grouped as well... 62
if you've grouped the background. 63
So we've grouped the circles, so we also need to group the icons... 64
which I've already done for you. 65
So, the slight different effect is... 66
'Effect', '3D', we're going to use 'Rotate'. 67
Turn Preview 'on'. 68
What we need to do is match what we had before... 69
and I didn't bring in that extra screenshot. 70
Let's grab a screenshot. 71
You, 'Effect', '3D'. 72
'Rotate'. 73
Preview 'on', and just type out these, this one's '36'. 74
'-35'. 75
'18'. 76
If you had Perspective, which we don't, you can match them as well. 77
I'm going to click 'OK'. 78
You can see now, they match the background stuff. 79
We might have to do just a little adjustment... 80
to get them right in the center there. 81
That's how to do semi flat icons. 82
Now, what I'll quickly do though is... 83
we'll do a Shadow on it, then we'll get into... 84
that thing you saw at the beginning of the application. 85
So skip over here if you don't want to learn how to do a Shadow. 86
So what we're going to do is, I just want the circles. 87
I'm going to make a duplicate of it, because I don't want-- 88
We're going to fake a shadow. 89
You could use the Drop Shadow Tool. 90
I find I never get good success with that. 91
So 'Effect', 'Stylize Shadow', if you want to do that. 92
What I'm going to do is, first of all expand these, because the-- 93
they're driving me mad, so 'Object', 'Expand Appearance'. 94
Now I want to join them all up. 95
To join them all up we need to make sure they're not grouped... 96
so I'm going to click off in the background. 97
And you are all grouped, so I'm going to right click, 'Ungroup'. 98
They're ungrouped, these guys are grouped. 99
So I'm going to select them all, ungroup them again. 100
What are we left with? 101
Now it's a kind of a testing. 102
So they're all ungrouped, I know this is probably not going to work. 103
So grab my 'Shape Builder Tool', and drag a box around them all. 104
It meant to join them all, if it doesn't do that... 105
it just means some of the parts, like this guy here is-- 106
right click, 'Release Clipping Mask'. There's some-- 107
3D ends up with some artefacts, so I've got all these guys. 108
If you're doing it with squares... 109
I tested this before, it didn't have this problem. 110
'Release Clipping Mask'. 111
You might have to do some ungrouping, releasing Clipping Mask. 112
Now I've got them all, Shape Builder Tool 113
Fill color, I'm going to pick black. 114
I'll hold the 'Shift' key down, just drag them all, and hopefully... 115
it's going to stem into one giant thing. 116
So now what I want to do, I want to group them, just for no good reason. 117
Grab the right tool, the Black Arrow, I'm going to put them just underneath. 118
This is what I'm doing for Shadows. 119
And with them selected, under 'Effect'... 120
I'm going to go to 'Blur', and I go to 'Gaussian Blur'. 121
Turn Preview 'on', and just adjust this radius until you feel happy. 122
It's going to be too dark to start with. 123
I want kind of a light one there. 124
You can either play with the Fill color, or the Opacity... 125
and just turn it down, so it mixes well with the background. 126
What you also might do is play around with... 127
under 'Opacity', under these Layer Modes... 128
you might find one of these that works better with the thing underneath. 129
Ours is going to work just fine under 'Normal'... 130
because we have a really flat background color. 131
How much do we like those? Not sure. 132
I'm going to try and find these guys. 133
We don't mind, we just want to get on to the next bit. 134
Let's get on to the next one. 135
The next one is... 136
I've made an Artboard, and I've kept it quite far apart from the first one... 137
just because, remember, flipping things around... 138
we need a little bit of extra room. 139
I'm going to bring in the App mockups. 140
Now I've mocked these up in a program called Adobe XD. 141
You can mock them up in Illustrator or Photoshop, it doesn't matter. 142
But I've done this job, now I want to kind of... 143
make this Isometric laid down thing. 144
So I'm going to bring in all four images. 145
It's in your 'Exercise Files', under 'XD Mockup'. 146
Bring him in, click once, twice, three times, four times. 147
Now, 'Black Arrow', click off. 148
I want you, I'll use him later on. 149
These three guys I would like to lay out now. 150
I'll use my shortcut, remember, I'm selecting all of these. 151
'Command-Function-F12' is my 'Distribute these Centers'. 152
So to get started, I want to group these... 153
because I want them to be kind of operating together. 154
Then we go to 'Effect', '3D', 'Extrude & Bevel'. 155
Turn the Preview 'on'. 156
Because we're using images now, and not just vector... 157
it is going to freak out your computer a bit. 158
So if you're finding it really slow... 159
you might have to go and close down every program you can... 160
to kind of try and facilitate this. 161
So I'm rotating it around... 162
I've got a little bit of Perspective in this one. 163
How much? 164
Cursor in there, just using my up arrow. 165
Little bit of Perspective. 166
See, it's taking its while to catch up, because it is-- 167
I'm just going to type it in. 168
I'm trying to record using screen capture software as well... 169
which is stressing everything out, 3D, it's all going nuts. 170
So that's what I really want to do, a little bit of Perspective... 171
and get the angles how you want them. 172
I'm not sure I'm happy with them yet. 173
Yes, looks good. 174
So don't want more Perspective. 175
So let's click 'OK'. 176
Next thing to do is, either Drop Shadows. 177
We'll now as well do the Drop Shadows now before we do this thing. 178
It's essentially the same as this first up. 179
I'll show you a couple of extra tricks as we go. 180
It's worth hanging around for. 181
So what I'm going to do is duplicate these guys. 182
Duplicate these guys, so I've got an extra copy. Get that guy out of the way. 183
And we're going to-- remember, exactly like we did before. 184
And I go to 'Object', 'Expand Appearance'. 185
So they're no longer editable 3D. 186
And what we'll also do is, right click, ungroup. 187
We want to use the same trick as we did before. 188
I'm right clicking, ungrouping. 189
There's probably going to be some tricks we need to do. 190
I've ungrouped them a few times, let's give it a whirl. 191
Let's go to Shape Builder Tool. 192
Hold 'Shift', and say, "All of you fellows join up." 193
And all undid, except for the one I didn't select. 194
Awesome! 195
This, I'm going to give them all a Fill color of black. 196
And what we're going to do is... 197
there are some bits underneath. 198
It's kind of weird when you work in 3D... 199
there's all sorts of Clipping Masks, and bits going on. 200
I don't need you, just want you three. 201
And I group them, then I go to my cheap Drop Shadow trick. 202
'Effect', 'Blur', 'Gaussian Blur'. 203
'Preview'. 204
It works for me. 205
And I'm going to stick them underneath. 206
And what I'll do is lower the opacity in a second... 207
once we get the other image underneath. 208
So now this guy, I need to work out what angle to put him on. 209
I didn't take a screenshot, so I can go back in... 210
select it, click on '3D Extrude & Bevel'. 211
Now, screenshot. 212
'File', 'Place' that screenshot. 213
You're thinking, "It better be worth me hanging around." 214
Because it's the same thing over, kind of is. 215
There's a gem at the end, I promise; skip to the end. 216
So we're going to go to 'Effect'. 217
We're going to go to, not that one... 218
'Effect', '3D', and we're going to go to 'Rotate'. 219
And in here, I'm going to copy, '59'. 220
'-26', '8'. 221
And the Perspective was '25'. 222
I'll leave Preview off, stop it freaking out. 223
I'm going to try and adjust it. 224
All right, you, done your job. 225
And you should be the same Perspective as this stuff. 226
What I might do is just scale it up. 227
I'm going to crop it at the end. 228
Scaling it up freaks it out. 229
If you're wondering how to speed up, if you're doing a lot of this... 230
there's a whole video series on how to speed up Illustrator. 231
In this case it's going to be 'Effect', 'Rasterize Settings'. 232
That will-- 233
At the moment we're doing it too high, they're 300dpi... 234
but I'm just dealing with it. 235
I'm going to push this to the back. 236
What I might do with this is, I'm going to crop it all out in a second. 237
There's a couple of things I want to do. 238
One is, I want to move these guys so they're kind of just off screen. 239
So you, plus-- it's a little hard to grab. 240
So you fellows, I want to be a little bit bigger. 241
Prepare for freaking out. 242
Scanning is the worst offender. 243
I want to come off. It's really even hard to see my Artboard now. 244
I wanted this kind of effect, you saw at the beginning. 245
Cool, my Shadows. 246
A couple of things we didn't do. 247
One was, in my Shadows here... 248
I just left-- so I'm trying to get a hold of my Shadows underneath. 249
There they are. Cool. 250
I'll lower the Opacity, or you can go-- 251
because there's something underneath it now we can go to 'Opacity'... 252
and have a look at some of the Blending Modes. 253
Soft Light's probably going to work. 254
Maybe not what I wanted. 255
Overlay. 256
Dan, you should have practiced this first. 257
I'm going to go back to 'Normal', and just turn the Opacity down. 258
Yes, looks good. 259
You're waiting for the secret trick. 260
So what I'm going to do is draw a big rectangle out the back here. 261
I'm going to lower the opacity, because I want... 262
I want this background image to be not as strong as these. 263
So I'm going to send it backwards until.. 264
I've kind of-- maybe it's a bit too dark now. 265
If I've lost you with this 3D mess here... 266
it's okay, I'm a little lost myself. 267
Basically I wanted this gray box... 268
to make this big shape at the background just a bit darker... 269
so that these apps which are that kind of focused... 270
seem a bit more in focus. 271
We'll speed this up. 272
Hates it. 273
So, the trick that I was holding at the end here... 274
it's kind of a nice trick when you've got really busy stuff here. 275
We were all confused, what's masked, what's not. 276
I wanted to just clip it down to the Artboard. 277
There's a cool trick in Illustrator... 278
if I draw a box the same shape as my Artboard... 279
that was pretty close. 280
If we go to our Layers panel... 281
what we'll do is select everything on this Artboard here... 282
and we'll put it on its own Layer, so I'm going to make a new Layer... 283
I'm going to drag this blue dot, the green dot... 284
and now I want to have three, let's lock this old Layer. 285
That's these guys that we're working on over here. 286
Now if I twirl down this Layer... 287
and I make sure that new rectangle I drew is at the top. 288
Here he is, along the top, if he's not, just drag him up. 289
And the cool thing about it is, if you click the word 'Layer 3'... 290
you donât click anything else, click 'Layer 3'... 291
and there's an option here. 292
This is 'Make Clipping Mask'. 293
Just a cool thing where it makes everything on that Layer... 294
it takes that first object, and turns it into a Clipping Mask. 295
My box wasn't quite ready there... 296
but this might be something-- it's quite useful... 297
because you might have seen this in-- 298
What's really nice as well, they're all still kind of individuals in there. 299
So I can grab the Shadows in the background here. 300
I'm not going to move it... 301
because that thing there takes forever to move around... 302
but they're all kind of just hiding through this window. 303
We're not having to do it for every shape. 304
If you're like me, in the past you would have just drawn like... 305
you would have five boxes, and then Clipping Masked all at separate parts. 306
So this way is just a nice little extra trick. 307
Worth waiting for? 308
I hope so, but anyway... 309
I'm not super happy with my layout... 310
but you're all watching me the whole time... 311
so I can't even get a chance to kind of... 312
stick the tongue, and go, "Yes, I want a bit more of this." 313
And the patience with the 3D Revolve... 314
I guess, because we're videoing. 315
I don't need that anyway. 316
That's it for this one, let's look at the-- 317
Let's go on to the next video.