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Creating an origami effect with Zig Zag

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From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Creating an origami effect with Zig Zag

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- [Voiceover] In this movie, I'll demonstrate how to work with the Zig Zag filter, and you may recall we first saw Zig Zag when I was showing you how to add a kind of grassy effect to the Angry Bird graphic back in chapter 23, and we ended up going with Roughen, but we saw Zig Zag on the way, and so this time around we're gonna use it to spike the flower petals in order to create this kind of Origami effect, and I just love this part of the project. I think you will too. All right, so the first thing I'm gonna do is click out here in the petals in order to select the rear of the two circle, and you can tell it's the rear one because it has a total of eight anchor points, you might be able to just barely make that out, and it has a ton of fills here inside the Appearance panel, so make sure the Path is selected and you can go ahead and twirl close any fills that are open by the way, and then go up to the Effect menu, choose Distort & Transform, and choose Zig Zag, and then you can go…

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