Designing Futuristic Menus in Illustrator
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this series of tutorials, we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator. Software required: Illustrator CS6.
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Course Description
In this series of tutorials, we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator. We begin by watching a clip that the menus will eventually be composited into and get an idea for what kinds of motions the actor in the clip makes. This gives us an idea for the scale and the types of menus that we need to be creating for this setting. This course teaches some time saving workflows for working quickly in Illustrator and building lots of varied shapes that can be used to build endless combinations of buttons and applications for our interface. If you have some Illustrator knowledge, and you are ready to make a really fun project that will speed up your workflow and teach you some tips for readying your artwork for animation, then this course is for you. By the end of this course, you will have your own set of futuristic menus as well as the tool set to make many more buttons that still look like a cohesive set. Software required: Illustrator CS6.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 0s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 0sDesigning Futuristic Menus in Illustrator- 3h 45m
—Getting a Feel for the Footage 7m 8s
—Look Development and Creating a Frame Style for the Phone 15m 41s
—Building the Folder Shapes Based on the Phone Frame 11m 59s
—Constructing the Photos Dock 8m 27s
—Using the Align Panel to Make a Bank of App Icons 7m 18s
—Making Circle Varieties with the Stroke Panel 14m 50s
—Creating a Straight Ruler Using Blend Shapes 11m 30s
—Producing Symmetrical Dial Shapes with Duplication and Rotation 14m 21s
—Arranging Numbers on a Path to Look like Measurements 8m 54s
—Building a Fan Shape 4m 27s
—Easy Line-graph Creation 7m 58s
—Constructing a Radar 4m 4s
—Building the Count-up Dial 16m 59s
—Creating the News Button 13m 34s
—Making the Maps Button Using a Clipping Mask 6m 9s
—Building the Clocks 18m 2s
—Using Existing Shapes to Create More Buttons 17m 38s
—Placing the Elements into a Useable Grid 11m 33s
—Continuing the Interface Layout 13m 2s
—Splitting and Naming Individual Layers 11m 18s
