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Dynamic symbols

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- [Instructor] Dynamic Symbols when they came along in 2015 added some properties to what a symbol could actually do. And then now the default in industry to when you choose to make a new symbol and that's for good reason. As it limits the necessity to create several different versions of a symbol, for reasons of things like color, which is the main thing that I really like about these. So, what I'm going to do here is I've got this plane which itself has some symbol instances on top of it. I'm just going to get rid of those just for the moment though, and replace them because they're linked to some other artwork it would seem. So I'll just go ahead and bring two symbols out. I'll bring the same ones onto the artwork, like so, okay, on either side of the wings here. Now these are carefully Constructed these wings and I've got this kind of glossing layer here which I'm going to bring to the front. So it sits over the top…

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