384 Creating a flowering origami effect

- Hey Gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques!…Now remember last week when I showed you…how to create this pattern…of flowering vectors in Adobe Illustrator?…Well, this week we're gonna…turn them into flowering origami,…and we're gonna do so using a handful…of Dynamic Effects under the Effect menu.…And, let me assure you, if you're an Illustrator enthusiast,…you're gonna love this one.…You could stop at any frame in the movie…and have a great looking effect.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, here's the final flowering origami effect,…just so you have a chance to see it on-screen.…

I'm gonna start inside that file…that we created last week.…And, armed with my black Arrow tool,…which is selected here at the top of the tool box,…I'll go ahead and click anywhere inside the colorful petals…in order to select that original circle.…Then you want to go up to the Window menu…and choose the Appearance command…to bring up the Appearance Panel .…Then click on the word Path at the top of the panel.…