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Busting up and coloring the cubes

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Busting up and coloring the cubes

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- [Voiceover] Alright, now the downside of working dynamically here is all of the duplicates are, of course, clones of the original right here, which is to say they're all colored the same. What I want is to color my cubes differently, which is why is why in this movie, we're gonna bust up the dynamic effect in order to gain control over the individual cubes. And you'll see, because we've set things up using tints of a global swatch, it's gonna make the job a lot easier. Alright, so I'm gonna switch back to the Layers panel and I'm gonna turn off that guides layer because, at this point, it's just a bunch of visual noise. I'm also gonna turn off my Smart Guides, because otherwise, we're gonna get a bunch of flashing on-screen. Alright, now I want you to notice over here the cubes layer is twirled open and we've got this single group, if I were to twirl it open, it contains nothing more than those three path outlines that we created a couple of movies ago. Now we don't wanna mess any…

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