Give me month and I may be able to accomplish this. You are the first person to detail the seamless connection of the duplicated stripe pattern! Good video! Hopefully, you are being well-compensated by TH-cam!
Very enjoyable vid. Got it to work, although the 500 blend crashed AI on the O so had use the pen tool to draw the curved shadow. I don't think you mentioned holding ALT when using the Shape Tool to delete various parts.
For those whose computer crashes after using the blend tool: I was playing around and found a way to do it that avoids this. I used the blend tool but just used like 20 steps (It would look like a zigzag)...then what I did was to unify all those copies so they become one and then erased all the corners, leaving just the first and the last one. And tada! you get the same result :) I hope this helps!
nice work!! just little correction about "dark blue shadow" in letter "O". its more logical if the the initial shadow point is on intersection of "dark yellow shadow" and "light blue object". sorry my english is limited, hope u understand what i mean.
I am in love with this tutorial =D Your tutorials become better and better. Never thought that this is even possible, but you made it, haha. Can't wait for your upcoming videos =) stay fresh!
if you keep running into the 500 blend tool/pathfinder problem... direct select the color you DONT want to edit Select>Same>Fill Color and the lock it...repeat that for all except the blend...then pathfinder unite each letter blend separate..it takes some time but its doable.
Ste Bradbury Design Thanks man we missed you, I gotta say I knew everything which was going on, on this video and could actually do it but I was so not expecting the last part where you had the lines saved to the swatches, totally helped me!.
i was following you on insta amd eagerly waiting for this turorial 😄 i have a question ste what you do to learn new techniques plz expalin that 😊 Hope that you will consistently upload great tutorials like this 😀
Learn so much from these, thanks for this! I have been using (Cmd+C) and then (Cmd+Shift+V) to paste in place but the (Cmd+F) is much simpler. That and the tip when creating a pattern, so helpful
How do you place the color pallet above the art board? Also I tried doing this with a longer text and I failed.. I got super confused on placements.. Can someone provide some tips on how to go about this? Thanks much. Great Vid sir. Subscribed to your channel.
found a solution. its just the RAM. closed all software. one more thing my file was saved in cloud folder. I had to move the file to local drive and it worked.
Found it really hard to follow at the white lines section and when finished the shadows under white lines don't marry up (on different letters ie Y or A) to the white lines so the white looks like it's floating. Main shadow also looks odd, wrong shape. Sorry but just doesn't look right to me.
Once I expanded the blue part Illustrator got superslow and kept crashing, is it necessary to do that or can I just use the shape tool anyway? Edit: Nevermind, I figured out a solution! Thank you for a great tutorial!
Not to be rude or anything but the light is coming from a 45 degree angle, therefore the light on that O shouldn't be straight down. Anyways, it's really cool. I like it.
I think he's referring to the dark blue color on the O. Your light source is coming from the upper left, but the dark blue color on the O says otherwise. The dark blue color you put on the O would be if the light source was coming from the top, or directly above the O. Regardless this is an excellent tutorial and it helped me learn some new tricks. Really appreciate the work you put in.
I'm having issues with the shape builder tool. I'm following all of your steps and have the correct things selected, but it does nothing when I click on what needs to be removed. Any suggestions?
very helpful tutorial! Fairly new to illustrator, when i went to create the darker blue shadows the pen tool clicked to points but they ended up not being exact in the end (wasn't seamless) any idea why that might be?
How did you isolate the stroke towards the end? My stroke is cemented to the layer so that when I duplicate it, it duplicates the whole text (object) layer.
Hey Stephen! I'm trying to recreate this but I don't know what's wrong with my blend tool, it doesn't make smooth blends, I usually do 255 steps since I always use it for irregular shapes and works fine, but for this I even tried using the same font you used and it makes sawtooth (worse with 500 steps) :S:(
Hey, i'm two month late, but i was struggling with the same thing, but i find a solution if you still need it and anyone who's passing by. The problem appear because you have the "Align to Pixel Grid" options activated. You can find it in the options (up-right corner) of the "Transform" panel. For existing objets, you have to select them first and then turn off Align to Pixel Grid using the checkbox at bottom of Transform panel. Hope that'll be usefull
I'm stuck at the @4:50 mark. Every time I try to use the pencil to get rid of the light blue shadows, this pops up: "Please use the add anchor point tool on a segment of a path" Do you know how I could fix this?
When i want to apply unite pathfinder on my word (which is a bit longer than hello) my PC freezes. I have 16 gb of dd4 and high end PC, idk what is the problem. Is there any solution for this?
When I use the blend tool my laptop gets crazy slow...and I was doing it only to one letter! Is there a way to make it less "heavy" for the laptop? I have a Macbook Pro :/
Same for me. Crashed Illustrator when doing the shadow on the O. I would try going for maybe 200 instead of 500. I doubt the blend will look any different
When I try to draw in the shadows (dark blue) the placement of the pen tool is off. I click on the corner of light blue piece and it places my starting point below it by like 5 pixels. It's driving me insane!
that was happening to me as well and what fixed it was turning off the "align art to pixel grid on creation and transformation" in the top right menu (I'm using CC btw)
When I'm 3d designing.... Can you tell me why the preview is too late... its take more time ... i am using i3 processor and 12 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk and GPU 1050 with 2GB... what i need. please help me. how to decrease time of preview.
For some reason when I'm trying to create the dark shadow for the O my pen tool doesn't show any anchors. What are your selection and anchor display settings on Preferences? x
Quick tip: Hold Shift while using the eyedropper and it will apply that color to whichever one (the fill or stroke) you have selected.
Damn, I never knew this! Thanks for the tip man, i'm sure this will help many others too!
does it work with spot colours? or only process?
This is about to change my life 😭
Give me month and I may be able to accomplish this. You are the first person to detail the seamless connection of the duplicated stripe pattern! Good video! Hopefully, you are being well-compensated by TH-cam!
Obsessed with both your tutorials and your intro music
awesome, that was amazing , thanks man
Amazing. Learnt a few tricks can use generally. Thanks for sharing.
loved it man!!! I would love see more like these!
I felt pretty confident with Illustrator and knew your steps before you did them, until that last part. Adding that to my tool belt, nice work!
ayyy thanks man! glad I was able to teach you at least something :)
Blake Spiegel same here bro!
Been using illustrator for 2 years and I had no idea about the cmd+d function, swear I learn something new from every one of your vids, cheers bro!
Excuse me?
The first video I have seen on your channel and I subscribed just because of the intro! I assume the rest will be great!
thanks for sharing!!!
very nice and clear explained!!!
Learnt so much from your brilliant tutorial. Thankyou.
Very enjoyable vid. Got it to work, although the 500 blend crashed AI on the O so had use the pen tool to draw the curved shadow.
I don't think you mentioned holding ALT when using the Shape Tool to delete various parts.
same here, when clicked unite it crashed...on a M3 iMac!?
For those whose computer crashes after using the blend tool: I was playing around and found a way to do it that avoids this. I used the blend tool but just used like 20 steps (It would look like a zigzag)...then what I did was to unify all those copies so they become one and then erased all the corners, leaving just the first and the last one. And tada! you get the same result :) I hope this helps!
Awesome effect, you seriously covered SO many different tools & techniques!
Thanks man! :)
great, thank you for sharing the way you achieve things, it's great to know it!
nice work!! just little correction about "dark blue shadow" in letter "O". its more logical if the the initial shadow point is on intersection of "dark yellow shadow" and "light blue object". sorry my english is limited, hope u understand what i mean.
Yo man im very excited that u started to upload again keep up the good work.
Loving all this know how!! I'm learning a lot, thank you!
when I open this youtube I always check Ste Bradbury Design if you have new vid :) so awesome
Super cool tutorial bro.
Awesome tutorial. Thank you.
This is awesome! thank you for shaing
Nice effect! Very useful video! 👍
I am in love with this tutorial =D Your tutorials become better and better. Never thought that this is even possible, but you made it, haha. Can't wait for your upcoming videos =) stay fresh!
Really good tutorial, thanks!
Solid tute man! Good idea with the drawing the lines onto the square, I hadn't thought of doing it like that!
lol I thought i was fast with the shortcut keys...
but this guy make it so effortless lol
efficiency and shortcuts!
if you keep running into the 500 blend tool/pathfinder problem... direct select the color you DONT want to edit Select>Same>Fill Color and the lock it...repeat that for all except the blend...then pathfinder unite each letter blend separate..it takes some time but its doable.
so beautiful brother
Thanks for the tutorial, keep up the good work!
HELPED ME 5 YEARS LATER .
Great tutorial man
OMG your intro is soooo good
Very nice, keep up the nice work!
Perfect retro logo!
OH FINALLY YOU ARE BACK
aye, I am back!!!
Ste Bradbury Design Thanks man we missed you, I gotta say I knew everything which was going on, on this video and could actually do it but I was so not expecting the last part where you had the lines saved to the swatches, totally helped me!.
Keep inspiring other! You are the man!
Great video!
Thank you for narrating.
i was following you on insta amd eagerly waiting for this turorial 😄 i have a question ste what you do to learn new techniques plz expalin that 😊 Hope that you will consistently upload great tutorials like this 😀
Love it man, great tutorial! :)
Learn so much from these, thanks for this! I have been using (Cmd+C) and then (Cmd+Shift+V) to paste in place but the (Cmd+F) is much simpler. That and the tip when creating a pattern, so helpful
i like it nice
Loved it!
Nice work and a great tutorial! Cheers Ste! ;)
Your videos are awesome!!!!!!
Thanks man!
Thank you for the tutorial! It was very useful:)
Thank you for this Stephen!
You're welcome!
nice tutorial !!!
outstanding
YOU ARE AMAZING :o Thanks for TUT.
hey i dont really understand how u did that at 3:25 would u please explain it to me? sorry i am a bit new in computer stuff
Great tut, easy to follow! Thank you! (:
why has it taken me this long to know the CMD D function?? great tutorial bro! so clean
haha I thought the same thing when I found that out, it' so useful!
Literally used it today haha
nothing but love
Great Tutorial, Thank you so much :)
AWESOME!
Keep make stuff like this broo
and for the darker color as shadows, you could just adjust the opacity of the layer..
..yeah...i choose this one ...on Instagram... keep up the Amazing work ...
Very good keep it up
When you realize that everybody's wrong, and Ste Bradbury rewrites the song.
You know it ;) hahah!
How do you place the color pallet above the art board? Also I tried doing this with a longer text and I failed.. I got super confused on placements.. Can someone provide some tips on how to go about this? Thanks much. Great Vid sir. Subscribed to your channel.
I love it your channel nice video. Thanks bro ;D
Thank you!
Thanks a lot Bro
Everytime I click pathfinder it hang and quit illustrator. 6:26. please advise how to fix it.
found a solution. its just the RAM. closed all software. one more thing my file was saved in cloud folder. I had to move the file to local drive and it worked.
Do you have a tutorial on how to create a logo like yours? Also with the animation will me awesome. Thanks
hey you! when do you do other video?
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I learned a lot!
Found it really hard to follow at the white lines section and when finished the shadows under white lines don't marry up (on different letters ie Y or A) to the white lines so the white looks like it's floating. Main shadow also looks odd, wrong shape. Sorry but just doesn't look right to me.
Once I expanded the blue part Illustrator got superslow and kept crashing, is it necessary to do that or can I just use the shape tool anyway?
Edit: Nevermind, I figured out a solution! Thank you for a great tutorial!
Doesn't the zigzag pattern when zooming in defeat the purpose of it being vector?
I have recreated HELLO. Now can I change HELLO to something else? or I have to recreate?
still cant quite get what does that "expand" or "expand appearance" does. Always when im trying to do this some messy things comin up
gokil bro, sangat bermanfaat !
Very useful tutorial! However, I have problem with the pen tool, I can't get them aligned, even tho it says intersect when I clicked. Please help
Maravilloso
Not to be rude or anything but the light is coming from a 45 degree angle, therefore the light on that O shouldn't be straight down. Anyways, it's really cool. I like it.
I'm not really sure which part you're referring to, it looks right to me haha and thanks man! :D
I think he's referring to the dark blue color on the O. Your light source is coming from the upper left, but the dark blue color on the O says otherwise. The dark blue color you put on the O would be if the light source was coming from the top, or directly above the O.
Regardless this is an excellent tutorial and it helped me learn some new tricks. Really appreciate the work you put in.
I'm having issues with the shape builder tool. I'm following all of your steps and have the correct things selected, but it does nothing when I click on what needs to be removed. Any suggestions?
very helpful tutorial! Fairly new to illustrator, when i went to create the darker blue shadows the pen tool clicked to points but they ended up not being exact in the end (wasn't seamless) any idea why that might be?
I have the exact same problem.... have you found the solution?
How did you isolate the stroke towards the end? My stroke is cemented to the layer so that when I duplicate it, it duplicates the whole text (object) layer.
Amazing :D
I am not able to change the color of the blend. Starting with black letters, it just shows a gray. Any suggestions?
My computer crashes when I try to expand the object what do i doooo!
same
Hey Stephen! I'm trying to recreate this but I don't know what's wrong with my blend tool, it doesn't make smooth blends, I usually do 255 steps since I always use it for irregular shapes and works fine, but for this I even tried using the same font you used and it makes sawtooth (worse with 500 steps) :S:(
Do you know if there's a way to reset the tool? Or is it a preview problem? I looked up online but didn't find anything helpful.
Hey, i'm two month late, but i was struggling with the same thing, but i find a solution if you still need it and anyone who's passing by.
The problem appear because you have the "Align to Pixel Grid" options activated.
You can find it in the options (up-right corner) of the "Transform" panel.
For existing objets, you have to select them first and then turn off Align to Pixel Grid using the checkbox at bottom of Transform panel.
Hope that'll be usefull
Jaaaa! I tried so many things at the time and nothing worked. Works perfectly!
Thank you so much, Théo! 🌟
That was exactly my problem as well and I was searching the comments to see if anyone else had the issue....thank you so much for this!!!
Just bought the new iMac Pro for this purpose and still crashes...
I'm stuck at the @4:50 mark. Every time I try to use the pencil to get rid of the light blue shadows, this pops up:
"Please use the add anchor point tool on a segment of a path"
Do you know how I could fix this?
same, have you found any solution since?
Use the pen tool (the one with the + symbol to ADD anchor points), not the pencil tool.
Question: You mentioned in the video "I'm using square Rocky key" which I do not understand what is it? Thank you.
He's saying 'Square bracket'. Meaning this [ ] . :D
Celina, thanks a lot. ^^
When i want to apply unite pathfinder on my word (which is a bit longer than hello) my PC freezes. I have 16 gb of dd4 and high end PC, idk what is the problem. Is there any solution for this?
SAME
When I use the blend tool my laptop gets crazy slow...and I was doing it only to one letter! Is there a way to make it less "heavy" for the laptop? I have a Macbook Pro :/
Same for me. Crashed Illustrator when doing the shadow on the O. I would try going for maybe 200 instead of 500. I doubt the blend will look any different
i don't know why but when i click mith the pen tool on an anchor point, it put it a little bit aside the anchor point and makes everything wrong ! ^^
same tho
how can you add this motion blur to mouse arrow on mac, please ? ❤❤
do you use a Imac? if so what Imac?
Are there any good beginner tutorials on this?
Who else would love a tut about that intro too ? ✋🏼
hm sory.can i ask for a help.Where can i get the font on the video.It is unclear whether it is 'vibas','bivas'.Sorry for my English
When I try to draw in the shadows (dark blue) the placement of the pen tool is off. I click on the corner of light blue piece and it places my starting point below it by like 5 pixels. It's driving me insane!
When I line it up with the blue piece, it places my starting point down and left by about 5 pixels.*
that was happening to me as well and what fixed it was turning off the "align art to pixel grid on creation and transformation" in the top right menu (I'm using CC btw)
i can't find the blend tool in photoshop 2015.5 help please?
what is that command square bracket key?
ctrl alt 9 on my computer. you just gotta do "]"
When I'm 3d designing.... Can you tell me why the preview is too late... its take more time ... i am using i3 processor and 12 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disk and GPU 1050 with 2GB... what i need. please help me. how to decrease time of preview.
your processor is probably bottlenecking the rest of your computer. Your graphics card and the amount of ram you have are too good for your processor
For some reason when I'm trying to create the dark shadow for the O my pen tool doesn't show any anchors. What are your selection and anchor display settings on Preferences? x
Press Command + H in Mac / Ctrl + H for windows, your anchor points will be visible after that :)