Hey there, in this video... 1
we're going to make charts, graphs, pie charts, and things. 2
We'll even make them 3D like this guy down the bottom here. 3
All right, let's go do that now in Adobe Illustrator. 4
I've just started with a blank document. 5
Next we want to go and find the tool we want. 6
It is this tool here. 7
So hover down. 8
Yours might look slightly different depending on which one was last used. 9
We're going to use the Column Graph Tool, even though-- 10
I can say, with a Bar Chart... 11
apparently a Bar Chart goes, or Bar Graph goes left to right. 12
I'm going to use this one. 13
Now when I create my graph... 14
you really need to decide how big you want it. 15
It's surprisingly hard to resize afterwards. 16
I'm going to click, hold, and drag out a rough size kind of graph. 17
You can resize it, but easier to do here. 18
What we want to do now, what you're meant to do is... 19
we need to click this option, 'Import Data'... 20
and from your 'Exercise Files', pick 'Charts - Bar', click 'Open'. 21
And it freaks out. 22
So basically it's... 23
it has only such specifically formatted data... 24
that it's pretty much useless. 25
The easy way, it's not useless, but it is quite specific. 26
So open it up in something like Excel or Google Sheets... 27
whatever you have access to. 28
Puts the default from that, can't remember. 29
I'm going to copy and paste the data I need. 30
Now be very specific about what you copy. 31
I'm going to copy this, excluding the title... 32
because I'm going to add that afterwards. 33
It's not super clever like Excel. 34
I'm going to copy it, and go to Illustrator... 35
and click in this first field here, and paste it. 36
I'm going to click this tick box, that little tick. 37
Kind of says, go and look at it again. 38
It's pretty good. 39
There's a couple of things you want to do. 40
One is, let's say I click on this, and I accidentally... 41
well, not accidentally, I closed that... 42
I'm finished with that, I called it Data Panel. 43
Now I want to go and adjust this. 44
So let's say I want to change the font. 45
It's nice to work with the Direct Selection Tool. 46
Try not to ungroup it, because at the moment... 47
it's a dynamic chart that I can adjust afterwards... 48
but if I ungroup it, it kind of turns into shapes and pieces. 49
Actually what I'll do is, 'Black Arrow', select the whole thing. 50
And you can see over here... 51
my Character Panel, I'm just going to pick these here. 52
So this is where you add your... 53
I guess, your niceness. 54
Niceness is not the word I want, but sex it up a little bit. 55
Another nice word, a word that I didn't want. 56
I'm going to go through. 57
I'm using the White Arrow. 58
The Direct Selection Tool is really handy for just going through... 59
and going, I want you, I want you. 60
Pick you. 61
I'm going to color them all, please hold. 62
Grab this last one. 63
We've customized it a little bit, now let's say I want to change it. 64
As in, some of the-- maybe it's the Sales Report. 65
So next month it's a little different. 66
Now to update it, all you want to do is... 67
with it selected, on the new version of Illustrator... 68
you can just hit 'Graph Data', and it pops back up. 69
You can go and either copy and paste it, and replace it... 70
or whatever you want to do. 71
Let's say that things changes, it's no longer 150, it's 110. 72
It's gone bad for Brewed, click on the little tick, and it's adjusted. 73
Another thing you might do is you might adjust-- 74
Well, that's on the new version... 75
I'll just quickly explain it for people in the older version. 76
You go into 'Object', 'Graph', 'Data'. 77
Brings back the same thing, data. 78
Let's say you want to change the chart. 79
So, in that option over here, under 'Properties', go to 'Graph Type'. 80
You can just go through and say-- 81
There's all these options along here, I'm going to pick a 'Pie Chart'. 82
Actually let's look at Line Chart. 83
No, Pie Chart, let's do that, let's click 'OK'. 84
The weird thing about Pie Charts is that... 85
you need to have the data in the right kind of format. 86
So I'm going to go to 'Graph Data'. 87
And basically what we need to do is, this here... 88
we transpose row and height. It wants to see the... 89
the information kind of going that way, watch this. 90
Then click 'tick', and life is good again. 91
All my colors are gone... 92
which I couldn't live with, so I kind of colored it. 93
There are a couple of things you can also do now. 94
With the White Arrow, we can select on this... 95
and what we're trying not to do... 96
is breaking that link between that being like an active graph. 97
So we can update and change it easily. 98
So I'm going to grab my White Arrow. 99
We can do cool stuff like this, where I drag it out... 100
to maybe have like a pull out, where we explain a little bit more. 101
The good thing about it is that... 102
if I click it on with my Black Arrow again... 103
this data is still live, I can go through, and say... 104
actually this is back to 350, I made a mistake here. 105
Click 'tick', and everything adjusts. 106
So you're keeping that connection to the data. 107
There are times where you do need to break that. 108
I'll show you a couple of reasons why. 109
Can I close this down? 110
One cheap trick, actually I'm going to undo it so that it's back in there. 111
A cheap trick is, I want to make it like a doughnut. 112
Like you saw at the front there, or in the Intro. 113
You could cut a hole in it, or-- 114
Actually I'm going to start from the center here. 115
Hold down 'Shift Alt', I'll draw a circle from the center. 116
I should knock a hole in it, and make it a Compound shape... 117
or just put a white circle in it. 118
Looks like the doughnut shape. 119
The other thing I want to do is I'm going to click 'A'. 120
And I want to get rid of the Stroke around the outside. 121
I can do that easy enough, 'Stroke'. 122
Set to... 123
I'm guessing here. Can I do that? I can, totally. Awesome. 124
That circle also needs it. 125
Now it's looking okay. 126
We've still retained all that, I guess, connection. 127
So what I want to do now, I want to actually break that connection. 128
We'll do some cool 3D stuff like we saw at the beginning. 129
So I'm making a copy of my good one, with all the data still connected. 130
There are times when you want to say... 131
actually, just want to smash this to pieces so I can do some cool things with it. 132
To do it, I feel like you want to go to 'Object', 'Expand'... 133
but you can click on that forever. 134
That doesn't work, you need to actually go 'ungroup' in this case... 135
which is a little strange. 136
It says it's going to break that link. 137
And I say, "Yes," because I've got some stuff to do. 138
What I might do, first of all... 139
is I might do a proper Compound shape... 140
where I select all of this. 141
Are these all connected? They are. 142
So I'm going to have to ungroup them. 143
Put them again, now they're all bits and pieces. 144
They're still connected, stop being connected. 145
Ungrouping lots. 146
Now they're all separate pieces. 147
So I'm going to click all these, I'm going to grab my Shape Builder Tool. 148
Remember, I hold down... 149
'Option' key on a Mac, or the 'Alt' key on a PC, and draw a circle. 150
And now, there's a hole in the middle. 151
How do I know there's a hole in the middle? 152
I can use my shortcut, 'Command-Shift-D'... 153
to see the Transparency Grid. I'll turn it off. 154
If you're on a PC, it's 'Control-Shift-D'. 155
Why do we need natural hole? Because we need to make that 3D shape. 156
So with this selected, what I might do is make another copy of this. 157
I have copies everywhere. 158
Let's go to 'Effect', '3D', and 'Extrude & Bevel'. 159
It's going to do the look we want. 160
Click on 'Preview'. 161
It's not grouped, so that's going to do really weird stuff, watch this. 162
Hit 'Cancel'. 163
So we need to group it. 164
Also make sure there's no Stroke around the outside. 165
If you have a black Stroke around the outside... 166
it makes it look a little lame when it gets into 3D. 167
We just have black edges. 168
So back into 'Effect', '3D', 'Extrude', click on 'Preview'. 169
And now we get to do some fun stuff. 170
Not fun, it's pretty cool though. 171
I like it. 172
Let's click 'OK'. 173
One thing you can do is you can go to Outline view. 174
So 'Command Y', or 'Control Y'. 175
Or 'View', it's this one here, toggle that in and out. 176
You can kind of look at it still in Plain view. 177
And what you might decide is, grab the 'Black Arrow'. 178
It's grouped, I'm going to double click it to go inside the group. 179
Now I'm going to click this one chunk. 180
It's going to be a little slow... 181
because it's doing 3D stuff in the background. 182
I'm going to click this arrow loads of times until it disappears. 183
I'm going to hit 'Command Y' again to get back. 184
You can kind of do this, like 3D pull out thing. 185
Feel like this needs to be rotated around. 186
I should have done this in the 3D view. 187
It's really weird if you try and rotate it, it's rotating it... 188
but then going back to the 3D, and doing some weird stuff. 189
We'll look at the cover, line charts, and Scatter graphs... 190
it's all basically the same. 191
Dump in the data, you might have to clean the data up a little bit. 192
Then it's kind of making it look nice. 193
These are some examples of things I've done. 194
They're not beautiful, but it's-- trying, like to fancy up... 195
graphs and data for annual reports, those types of things. 196
All right, that is going to be it about how to do it. 197
There's a couple of other things I want to show you. 198
Actually let's go and jump to that other stuff now. 199
All right, where are we? We are in the middle of a Sales Pitch. 200
I guess I want to show you where we'll take it from now. 201
I often get my graphs to a certain level, then I want to animate them. 202
And Illustrator is not the tool to do it. 203
It's generally After Effects. 204
I've got a course for that, and I'm going to kind of show you... 205
not to sell the course, kind of to sell the course... 206
but just to show you like what you can do with graphs. 207
So it's called Data Visualization and Animated Infographics. 208
There's lots of pictures of me, I should have had a shave. 209
It does a lot of things... 210
we change from graphs from say, Excel, or Illustrator. 211
And we do the-- 212
I'm going to mute it. 213
You can kind of see, the same graphs, with a little bit of, I don't know. 214
Animation just kind of brings them to life... 215
if you're doing PowerPoint presentations... 216
things for YouTube. 217
It just covers-- any other nice looking things in that? No, it's just me. 218
Check that out, you don't have to do my course, but go and check out. 219
Check out After Effects for animating that sort of thing. 220
Now, don't go yet. 221
The next one is not a Sales Pitch, but it is future awesomeness. 222
Let's jump to that now. 223
All right, where have I brought you? 224
I've brought you to watch YouTube with me. 225
It's worth watching, I promise you. 226
You can go and just look at... 227
ProjectLincoln, Bernard Kerr, he's a Kiwi guy. 228
This is Adobe Max, their big conference they have every year. 229
I'm lucky enough to speak at it. 230
If you do get to go, this year it's in L.A, last year it was it was Vegas. 231
Very exciting, right? 232
20,000 creatives doing presentations and awesome things. 233
So come check it out. 234
They've got this thing called Adobe Sneaks. 235
And all Adobe Sneaks are, it's like... 236
what Adobe are doing in the background, it's not released yet... 237
but stuff they're trying to work on. 238
Enough talking, I'm just going to let this play out. 239
This is me, ending the video. 240
You don't have to watch anymore. 241
It's six minutes long, you can watch it, you don't have to. 242
But man, it's cool. 243
I hope it's going to be out soon. 244
Okay, let's hit Play now. 245
You don't mind me saying, everybody welcome... 246
Bernard Kerr, with ProjectLincoln. 247
I can't turn my microphone off. 248
Hello Max. 249
Whoever out there has ever had to make... 250
a nice looking chart or Data Visualization? 251
Me. 252
Have you found the process painfully slow and frustrating? 253
Yes. 254
Would you like some super powers to be able to do it at lightning speed? 255
I got to say, this is the first time I've heard a crowd cheer for Data Visualization. 256
In the past you've probably used one of three different approaches. 257
You might have tried drawing something from scratch... 258
you might have found a template that was close... 259
but not quite exactly what you wanted. 260
Or you may not be familiar how to code. 261
Or some combination of the three. 262
So all these approaches start with data... 263
that's sort of stuffed into a machine, and spits out the visualization. 264
But ProjectLincoln flips this up on its head... 265
and says, "What if you could sketch first, and then bind your drawing to data?" 266
That means any of the visual properties of something you've drawn... 267
could be bound to data. 268
That could be its position... 269
its size, its color. 270
Even text could be bound to data. 271
And these data driven drawing tools... 272
live on top of the drawing tools you already know and love. 273
So let me show you how this works... 274
by trying to build you a poster for my friend Kim Chambers. 275
You may remember Kim for close to last couple of years. 276
She's not only a sensation, she's also an extraordinary swimmer. 277
One of seven people on the planet to have swum the ocean seven. 278
A set of gruelling marathon swims all around the world. 279
So I'm going to make a poster for her. 280
So all I'm going do here, in Lincoln, I'm going to bring in a simple spreadsheet. 281
This is for the North Channel swim. 282
So from this picture we're going to grab these variable names... 283
from the top of the spreadsheet and put it into this palette. 284
And this is what we're going to use to bind our drawing to data. 285
So if I want to make a Bar chart... 286
I just make a bar the size, and shape, and color that I want. 287
Then when I hit the Repeat Grid... 288
I get a Bar for each of those swimmers. 289
Now if I want to set the length of this Bar... 290
I can select the right hand side and bind it to the Time Variable. 291
And now all these Bar points are bound to time... 292
and I can adjust them with this Axis Control. 293
If I add some text... 294
I just added some text here. 295
At this point it's the same all the way down... 296
but I can bind that to the swimmers' names. 297
I could do the same for time. 298
I'm going to open up my Swimmer Library, and I grab a swimmer. 299
So I've got the swimmer sitting here, repeated that same way all the way down... 300
but I've got this new concept which I call a Sticky Anchor. 301
With this we set up a relationship between the Anchor Point of one object... 302
and Anchor Point of another. 303
So now they have this offset. 304
Now I'm going to throw in a flag. 305
Obviously not all of these swimmers are from New Zealand like me and Kim. 306
So we bind them to the country variable. 307
Fill that in with some dark gray. 308
So here's Kim... 309
and looks like she's wearing the wrong bathing suit. 310
So let me bind that swimmer to the Gender Variable. 311
So now we have actually three women swimmers... 312
who have done these crazy swims... 313
and they were 17 hours in the waters; it's a long time, right? 314
So now that I'm sort of happy with my design here... 315
I can apply all these bindings to each of the other swimmers. 316
So now they automatically just get generated based on the data. 317
I can also throw these all on the same page at the same time. 318
Small multiples, and I can control the spacing between them too. 319
Bar charts, maybe not your cup of tea... 320
maybe we'll try something a little more sophisticated. 321
Now I'm going to do a Weather radio. 322
Now if you know what a Weather radio is... 323
it's actually a visualization of weather... 324
showing you the high and low temperatures for every day of the year... 325
for the entire year, all in one go. 326
This would be really useful for Kim to know about... 327
when she's planning these swims... 328
to know what time of the year to go for these crazy swims. 329
So this time I'm going to bind the right hand side of this bar... 330
to the high temperature for the day. 331
The left hand side is going to be bound to the low. 332
Now when I hit the Repeat Grid... 333
I have 365 of these Bars in an arranged chart. 334
Now I'm going to bind the color of this bar... 335
to the average temperature, with this new color control. 336
So these guys are running off the page, it's 365... 337
and now I'm going to throw them into a Radial Pattern... 338
and then we have a... 339
So of course we can apply these findings to all those different cities... 340
that she would be swimming from to work out where actually to go. 341
I don't have time to do a full poster here... 342
but here is a sort of design we worked on earlier. 343
It's awesome! 344
I just built 14 Data Visualizations, simple and complex ones... 345
with total creative control and freedom in less than four minutes. 346
Cool, guys? 347
All right, that was awesome. 348
I'm hoping we all do a video class very soon... 349
on how to use Lincoln, or whatever they end up calling it. 350
All right, that's the end of this one. 351
It was good fun watching a YouTube video. 352
We should do it again. 353
In the next video we'll do something, a little bit more Illustrator. 354
Let's go and do that now.