Designing Futuristic Menus in Illustrator
In this series of tutorials, we will follow a step by step process for creating futuristic menus in Illustrator. Software required: Illustrator CS6.
What you'll learn
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.
Table of contents
- Getting a Feel for the Footage 7m
- Look Development and Creating a Frame Style for the Phone 16m
- Building the Folder Shapes Based on the Phone Frame 12m
- Constructing the Photos Dock 8m
- Using the Align Panel to Make a Bank of App Icons 7m
- Making Circle Varieties with the Stroke Panel 15m
- Creating a Straight Ruler Using Blend Shapes 12m
- Producing Symmetrical Dial Shapes with Duplication and Rotation 14m
- Arranging Numbers on a Path to Look like Measurements 9m
- Building a Fan Shape 4m
- Easy Line-graph Creation 8m
- Constructing a Radar 4m
- Building the Count-up Dial 17m
- Creating the News Button 14m
- Making the Maps Button Using a Clipping Mask 6m
- Building the Clocks 18m
- Using Existing Shapes to Create More Buttons 18m
- Placing the Elements into a Useable Grid 12m
- Continuing the Interface Layout 13m
- Splitting and Naming Individual Layers 11m
About the author
Laura is a passionate visual effects and motion graphics author at Pluralsight. Ever since her first exposure to After Effects in college, Laura has had an eternal drive to learn more about motion graphics, and teach others what she has discovered. Laura began working at Digital-Tutors (now a Pluralsight company) as a motion graphics artist, creating visually-appealing advertisements and informative art for the site. Throughout her time at Digital-Tutors, Laura contributed greatly to both the ... more