Overview
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Learn what it takes to design your own mind-bending illusion with Illustrator and Photoshop.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Drawing nine base hexagons
- Converting shapes into custom guides
- Drawing the first edge of the triangle
- Filling the edge with a custom gradient
- Rotating and duplicating the edges
- Identifying the center of your artwork
- Drawing and filling the golden ball
- Understanding how the ball moves
- The angles of an equilateral triangle
- Drawing the path of the ball
- Expressing motion as a custom guide
- Duplicating shapes along an angled line
- Arranging shapes in a perfect triangle
- Blending the first series of frames
- Making quick work of the remaining blends
- Expanding blends into our first continuous trail
- Releasing the shapes to sublayers
- Exporting your frames as Photoshop layers
- Turning the layers into Timeline frames
- Adding hidden layers to your animation
- Masking the frames to complete the illusion
- Exporting the final animated GIF file
- Until next time
