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Make Your Own M&M's!

Sunday, September 13th, 2009 – running time 19:44
A cascading shower of M&M's sounds like a dream come true! Bert Monroy shows you how to illustrate and style M&M's using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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Create M&M's in Adobe Illustrator

Open Illustrator and create some M&M's! To do this, use the pen tool and use points, lines and anchors to create half of the oval shape. Bert uses a green fill color. Photoshop does have 3D functions, but in this case, we will use Illustrator (Effect > 3D > Revolve). Make sure to turn on the preview setting so you can see the 3D shape. Use an offset of 0pt from "right edge" and the shape will look much like an M&M candy. Adjust the lighting as desired, then press OK.

03:54

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Make many different colored M&M's with duplication

Duplicate the M&M and change the angle of your new shapes by using the Appearance panel. By clicking on 3D Revolve and turning on the preview, you can rotate the shape and keep your light source consistent. After the first M&M is created, do not use the Effects > 3D panel. After making many duplicates you can lock the whole bunch, copy the set, paste the new M&M's and then change their color.

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Add the "M" to M&M's

We now take a look at Bert's Photoshop file that contains all the M&M's, with different colored pieces in different layers. We then apply little "m" letters to the candy. To do this, place the "m" in a new layer and use Warp to make it appear as one with the candy. Add shadows behind the M&M's so they look realistic.

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Falling M&M effect

To make the candy appear as if they're falling, apply a motion blur. Final touches are done manually.

14:00

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Highlights
floodlight ( 2:58 ) shadows ( 13:32 ) cradle ( 16:03 ) overlapping ( 16:40 )

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" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome to its approach to would be Bert on right on today's show. It creates a delicious chocolate -- and Annan's. The first. They got today background it comes to us by Robert Knutson. Now wanted -- pay close attention to this little down here. That the meter is going to go up as you get smarter and smarter unfortunately. I don't be blocking it but trust me as you're watching the show. Give me is gonna go away up to you become really smart with Photoshop before we start at stake -- sponsors. Godaddy.com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one of three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the code pencil for when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and -- and it all by too long there. But you know some restrictions apply. The -- site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. What bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light -- to watch movies Netflix plans start from as little as four dollars and 99 cents. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his coat. So now. And then ends. They've back to our I had little time script these little five feet by 25 feet that's pretty small. Which -- looking down the screen right now. Is up all the basic signs in the center. Of Times Square. Now. As I said last week the building that's. Cold the only size isn't there yet I'm gonna put that in later in fact most of it is very dark tones young is Hulu pieces here and there were little floodlight is kind of going around a particular billboard and spilling -- of the building the most visibility is very dark. But you could see there that the way over here on the right is is. Huge. Screen. With a bunch Eminem's falling now there's another one back here with a little Eminem character doing stuff. But right here that -- going to talk about now. These are animations they are constantly moving in Times Square and a moving and up when I was trying to show here is that movement that all these Eminem the falling down into its. Piling up towards the bottom becoming as big. Filling the screen eventually so that's what we're gonna create here is these little Eminem's. Now."

" hear is the actual file. Radium and were created you see I gave myself a little extra space on the sides I can just use as a holding place -- is -- things as I'm media and so on. But now adds up at the usually indicates. It starts off in illustrator. And here -- do that Eminem's through the whole bunch of I'm doing here is create one for you. Right from scratch -- to see how it is that it works. Now I'm gonna get myself a little guide here. It's those could give yourself guide and I just pull out. A little line from my rule is have a guide that the starting and ending points so I'm going it -- my pen tool on that guy -- and it clicked and dragged. And hold down my shift keys are constraints and -- other way than just curve around how to constrain them on upon my about like that. Come over here and click and drag again hold on a shift key now oh fifty after I've done that click and drag. That was gonna constrain handles otherwise gonna constrain wit that point is placed. I come down here and click and drag. And there has this basic. Rounded hat or send your round shape right now I chose a green I chose the green -- for my foreground color. Or actually be built color in his case and voters out they'll be -- color here is the full color. And the second one is keystroke that color that is used. For that color for the -- color is gonna determine what -- the object is going to -- Now Photoshop does have 3-D functions they entered into does the whole bunch of them but this particular function. This kind of relating functions fight back and some -- of the called delayed that the mountain that's not quite there yet Photoshop. Those standard it's fair and it's really easy so the basic laws and his were created here rather than in Photoshop. So now that I've got that basic have shaped by doing a select. The whole state. I got the -- selected IZ -- expect or do you read idea selection tools to go and edit select all the points I don't -- effect one point I want to thank all of them. And I come appeared to affects under effects I have 3-D. It really is right here it -- that's a leading function it's gonna revolved is object on its axis to create the full shape. Click on that and give it has little control panel. Move over and I have a preview button -- I click my preview button and went to see what's being creative director account affect -- More like an out don't know asserts is something right you've got this whole. I'm gonna come down here say. Use the right -- Used the right edge as the edge does revolve around when I click on that they always do that now we have our little and the them. Which I can rotate and do -- yeah want to it to get to the angle that I want it to be and so. Cisco and aired to the looping like that. Now on their more options. I had down here light. Where can move the light source and you're moving on the object itself. You know that on top and here's that on the bottom. Some woman is light source and I can add additional light sources to mind to amend them as many as I want -- just figure on the -- like right there. I controlled intensity of that like. I have all these different little controls it but just leave that within the falters as his right there and I don't go in and click okay and -- can also map art. The map bar's gonna allow me to going to find the symbol and map it onto this object. A symbol mean that some illustrated documents and shapers in this case the camera. Could be used as a texture map I would convert it to assemble -- it mapped it on there now I didn't do it that way why because I wanted every and to look different. If I put on there and all the ads would look the same and if a lot of Eminem's as red was a blue isn't all that stuff right so. I went in there and played around with them to make them all -- different so -- get. Applied them later on -- you open up and Eminem packet look at them to see they'll have a little -- look closely you'll see that all the and a slightly different. To blue curtain Morris somehow little piece missing is no I wanna that varieties -- Andy and not as texture map to all of them but as individual -- later that extort the end result more realistic. So I click okay there have this shape which I now can go and then duplicated and hold down my option key and duplicate this guy down here to have a second one. Now I'm gonna go in there and changed the angle of this guy. Now I cannot go back appear. I go back up here. It's gonna forget everything that I dated -- was essential in certain points were essential and I want to went to match that. It's gonna miss it all up at the start from scratch so what I do that go to the appearance panel. The appearance panel right here and then we see that we have in the the support of about attributes for this object we have 3-D -- I click on that. That brings me into his control which has the settings. That are currently set -- this. On preview there is and I'm gonna stay well and rotate this one like that bit. Click okay and we see that the lighting is matching. The lighting is the same for both cities and so on so that's very important that after you've created the object. In order to modify it you do not go back up to the effects and -- you actually go to the appearance panel and it. Tackled the actual really attribute that was attached to this particular spot as important -- You can't go back up there that you all right everything have to start from scratch and him pulling involves. Involved there at this point I can go in there and maybe change the color does that make it nice that kind of a reddish colors say what by changing the color it automatically change the color of the and and now what I did. It actually went in there and make quite a few duplicates and his M by the way between look at the -- and a layer by itself. Detectives turned off there's all the different pieces what I did is I took -- a whole bunch tournament I've made a whole bunch of little -- little green ones all pointing in different directions. Then. What I did is I duplicated that entire bunch I selected all I copied unlock that layer which is in this file but that's the story here. Select all right it's just echo in this Loch -- to a job. Select all. That they are and a copy from either keyboard that over here and I like that there create a new layer for myself and as slim as they pace. I'm gonna go in and gonna paste although little Eminem's friend that I think spot those Eminem's I would change their color. That isn't expunge this bunch I will make those of my red ones but that's part of the blue ones. There are too difficult to do and they all become but it's an -- have a layer. A blue lines and there are redolent of Greenland Bruins ambulance system who oversight. They'll get there they are now. Again I went into each one of those and change their attributes against that it -- matches like that Greenland is exactly like that no no right now they are. But I went in there and changed each one I went to four different colors didn't red ones and orange ones as well. -- there at all this different varieties now all these different pieces ones that were completed they were brought into the Photoshop file."

" Which will look at now."

" Photoshop."

" And W -- Area and Photoshop here we are now we look at this file will go in there and look at all the different. Letters that I have here. Aniston is that guy off and it's finals this turn this off and we'll turn off placement. Okay here we have pieces and dump my background for a second. Is the reds. There's a green is not noticed that they are slightly that look at us like that change was seek a very slight change. In the movement of these just a little bit at that new ones. There's the blue ones. And the orange ones that this all the different Eminem's in place. And out. What I did -- and is that I turn on and am. And I actually went in there and modify the -- and it's just take a little them. And let's put it into positions they write about here and what I did is I wore that. Has -- closely to see idioms were done as a little extra work but for me it was necessary to get that realism that I want it. So I went in there and I then it'll work. It was at the BM and has kind of what that on to this those shape here. Like though which -- start moving these little handles around. Moving them we have it's just the way we want and there like that. -- it up. Over. And it kind of -- these guys up this way. -- that click okay and did a little M and am -- my little -- on top of that particular and that. I'd sit -- you've got the basic idea of how they all came into the scene so now you'll notice that two other. -- groups here poses went down and turn it off. This one here. What I've done is I've actually taken the Eminem's and I put him in position. I put imposition you know does not now did -- red. I took a particular read that one right there and I copied it from somewhere that you copy from this one. And -- move them over and put this I needed more -- Then the resident pat I need a few more greens and the ones that so here I mean the reason front as those who dreams without any additional. Little Eminem's in there and I started giving them the shadows. It all of the shadows started being applied. -- that each one has a shadow clipped to. It shadows shadows. Shadows and means in front. Shadows on those. And so on so each one has its own shares of look at the blue that I -- the -- on -- if you had those made shows went away. Okay so there is deep shadows that now start to give these guys additional that. And then is the finals. On the finals. To see that same guys but they have additional tones. That have been added more darts is some of them have been darkened to a point all we see is that little tiny bit there. What we're doing about it it's -- this -- back on this is the little subtle red. And greens a little tiny bit to greens and blues and it just popping up here and there which edit all the depth now since. Quite a few of them are indifferent. Lenders. But I did justice going to have to see via the blues say for instance to school and it look at just the built this -- down here billion of those guys. I did the blues now what I did. Is that they are flowing and he's already in place so I grabbed. These two -- stood to these students to say and -- man -- these two right here. And wanted to do is to make them look like they're falling. Their little clothes at the bottom -- maybe not going as much as this in fact -- you wanna do two I would think in both separately. This one has hit there and bouncing it that way so I don't know give -- little motion blur. And the direction but it won't will be thing like that. -- would be bad direction and could be a -- no no it's just a little tiny bounce and just gonna give a little bit about just a touch of a motion blur that way. So it looks like this -- perfectly still because he's already fallen to place disguised as bounced off the decided that this guy's coming down fast this they've come down quite a bit. That a further awaited word the more most of our games I gave motion blur at different levels to create that illusion that some of my little. Eminem's reform the place and it's just part is -- in others it's just coming into place now."

" Which -- is his wife has more space between those and these because those are all crowded in and points down. But it all -- to stuff that went on there it's basically shape in this case such a simple little hostage. Very convoluted to do that in many places and no need for a very expensive -- instances cradle Eminem illustrated gave me got to believe it is creating a quarter. Or half of that edge inside of an -- and then had revolve around -- depart. To give me the full -- and then simply choose the color of the fill. Created the color of the -- A really easy process the end -- then added later so they all look different. And to open position now what's -- position is just a question of what will from around were all individual eyes to see it. -- enough room around a second easily go and select one and move where I want it. If I wanted to slightly overlap it immediately went to another layer who have to -- overlapping. And they have a certain look and the rest of the blue over here and it would be better to -- went over just a little bit well. There are saying there was able program when her whole left and his bottom. So by putting this guy in a separate -- allowed me to take this -- move over. Anywhere I want and then you associate of appease them to be underneath. So when new overlapping they went to another layer which is why in the finals this so many different layers including boom red on red copy. And so on and so forth because additional evidence we'll put all over the place. For each individual Eminem was handled as it into individual object. Easily creative from one original. As one cholera -- nation everything else justice modified. Within the confines of of illustrator and then put into position. Photoshop where all of the life was given to. So its discretion of going in there and playing around with the stuff and I got a good myself it's chocolate because I'm definitely got a sweet -- now. Hope you learned something from all this that there is something that you'd like to see the show email me at revision3.com. All the details of the forms at revision3.com. Forward slash forms. They could join discussion about the show and maybe influence if you his future show. Thanks again for Robert -- when -- and that should I say that but. The good and that's his great background and dubbed meet which is reset itself because -- thing is over but a few seconds goes way up. You guys that really smart look at that thing. So go out there and perfect your pixels. Hope you enjoyed so if you want. Evening's end and no I'm gonna be -- coming to a city near you very similar -- different cities every month and call him becoming a city near you just check out my website and find out about the classes that I give I give -- hands on class radio Berkeley and so on. Go to my site which is -- dot com and I really hope see you next week if you want your stuff here. So that when I'm here next week you'll artwork is back if it does mean thing. It is -- Make your. Beautiful image 1280 by seven point pixels has to be those dimensions as new JPEG file and send it to be occurred at revision3.com. And hopefully we'll see your artwork appear -- your name in lights to be -- world to see. Organized -- another place that's way to learn is deceptive -- see you next week."

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" War."

" This episode of pixel perfect is brought to you by Netflix and godaddy.com. Welcome to its approach to would be Bert on right on today's show. It creates a delicious chocolate -- and Annan's. The first. They got today background it comes to us by Robert Knutson. Now wanted -- pay close attention to this little down here. That the meter is going to go up as you get smarter and smarter unfortunately. I don't be blocking it but trust me as you're watching the show. Give me is gonna go away up to you become really smart with Photoshop before we start at stake -- sponsors. Godaddy.com makes it easy customize your virtual dedicated server. Choose one of three popular plans or select your own Linux or windows server with all the plan options you need. President of the code pencil for when you check out to save an additional 15% of any order of 75 dollars or more. Also be sure to check out their revision3.com. Forward slash godaddy for all the pixel perfect godaddy deals and -- and it all by too long there. But you know some restrictions apply. The -- site for details get your piece of the Internet at godaddy.com. What bank Netflix for sponsoring pixel perfect. And would then the Netflix you can rent over 90000. Titles online. Including lots of Blu-ray titles with free shipping both ways to go home 90000 to stay home for the rest of yellow light -- to watch movies Netflix plans start from as little as four dollars and 99 cents. And as a new member you can get a no risk two week free trial membership check it out at www. Netflix.com. Forward slash pixel perfect. And yes you do have to type in net WWW. We used his coat. So now. And then ends. They've back to our I had little time script these little five feet by 25 feet that's pretty small. Which -- looking down the screen right now. Is up all the basic signs in the center. Of Times Square. Now. As I said last week the building that's. Cold the only size isn't there yet I'm gonna put that in later in fact most of it is very dark tones young is Hulu pieces here and there were little floodlight is kind of going around a particular billboard and spilling -- of the building the most visibility is very dark. But you could see there that the way over here on the right is is. Huge. Screen. With a bunch Eminem's falling now there's another one back here with a little Eminem character doing stuff. But right here that -- going to talk about now. These are animations they are constantly moving in Times Square and a moving and up when I was trying to show here is that movement that all these Eminem the falling down into its. Piling up towards the bottom becoming as big. Filling the screen eventually so that's what we're gonna create here is these little Eminem's. Now."

" hear is the actual file. Radium and were created you see I gave myself a little extra space on the sides I can just use as a holding place -- is -- things as I'm media and so on. But now adds up at the usually indicates. It starts off in illustrator. And here -- do that Eminem's through the whole bunch of I'm doing here is create one for you. Right from scratch -- to see how it is that it works. Now I'm gonna get myself a little guide here. It's those could give yourself guide and I just pull out. A little line from my rule is have a guide that the starting and ending points so I'm going it -- my pen tool on that guy -- and it clicked and dragged. And hold down my shift keys are constraints and -- other way than just curve around how to constrain them on upon my about like that. Come over here and click and drag again hold on a shift key now oh fifty after I've done that click and drag. That was gonna constrain handles otherwise gonna constrain wit that point is placed. I come down here and click and drag. And there has this basic. Rounded hat or send your round shape right now I chose a green I chose the green -- for my foreground color. Or actually be built color in his case and voters out they'll be -- color here is the full color. And the second one is keystroke that color that is used. For that color for the -- color is gonna determine what -- the object is going to -- Now Photoshop does have 3-D functions they entered into does the whole bunch of them but this particular function. This kind of relating functions fight back and some -- of the called delayed that the mountain that's not quite there yet Photoshop. Those standard it's fair and it's really easy so the basic laws and his were created here rather than in Photoshop. So now that I've got that basic have shaped by doing a select. The whole state. I got the -- selected IZ -- expect or do you read idea selection tools to go and edit select all the points I don't -- effect one point I want to thank all of them. And I come appeared to affects under effects I have 3-D. It really is right here it -- that's a leading function it's gonna revolved is object on its axis to create the full shape. Click on that and give it has little control panel. Move over and I have a preview button -- I click my preview button and went to see what's being creative director account affect -- More like an out don't know asserts is something right you've got this whole. I'm gonna come down here say. Use the right -- Used the right edge as the edge does revolve around when I click on that they always do that now we have our little and the them. Which I can rotate and do -- yeah want to it to get to the angle that I want it to be and so. Cisco and aired to the looping like that. Now on their more options. I had down here light. Where can move the light source and you're moving on the object itself. You know that on top and here's that on the bottom. Some woman is light source and I can add additional light sources to mind to amend them as many as I want -- just figure on the -- like right there. I controlled intensity of that like. I have all these different little controls it but just leave that within the falters as his right there and I don't go in and click okay and -- can also map art. The map bar's gonna allow me to going to find the symbol and map it onto this object. A symbol mean that some illustrated documents and shapers in this case the camera. Could be used as a texture map I would convert it to assemble -- it mapped it on there now I didn't do it that way why because I wanted every and to look different. If I put on there and all the ads would look the same and if a lot of Eminem's as red was a blue isn't all that stuff right so. I went in there and played around with them to make them all -- different so -- get. Applied them later on -- you open up and Eminem packet look at them to see they'll have a little -- look closely you'll see that all the and a slightly different. To blue curtain Morris somehow little piece missing is no I wanna that varieties -- Andy and not as texture map to all of them but as individual -- later that extort the end result more realistic. So I click okay there have this shape which I now can go and then duplicated and hold down my option key and duplicate this guy down here to have a second one. Now I'm gonna go in there and changed the angle of this guy. Now I cannot go back appear. I go back up here. It's gonna forget everything that I dated -- was essential in certain points were essential and I want to went to match that. It's gonna miss it all up at the start from scratch so what I do that go to the appearance panel. The appearance panel right here and then we see that we have in the the support of about attributes for this object we have 3-D -- I click on that. That brings me into his control which has the settings. That are currently set -- this. On preview there is and I'm gonna stay well and rotate this one like that bit. Click okay and we see that the lighting is matching. The lighting is the same for both cities and so on so that's very important that after you've created the object. In order to modify it you do not go back up to the effects and -- you actually go to the appearance panel and it. Tackled the actual really attribute that was attached to this particular spot as important -- You can't go back up there that you all right everything have to start from scratch and him pulling involves. Involved there at this point I can go in there and maybe change the color does that make it nice that kind of a reddish colors say what by changing the color it automatically change the color of the and and now what I did. It actually went in there and make quite a few duplicates and his M by the way between look at the -- and a layer by itself. Detectives turned off there's all the different pieces what I did is I took -- a whole bunch tournament I've made a whole bunch of little -- little green ones all pointing in different directions. Then. What I did is I duplicated that entire bunch I selected all I copied unlock that layer which is in this file but that's the story here. Select all right it's just echo in this Loch -- to a job. Select all. That they are and a copy from either keyboard that over here and I like that there create a new layer for myself and as slim as they pace. I'm gonna go in and gonna paste although little Eminem's friend that I think spot those Eminem's I would change their color. That isn't expunge this bunch I will make those of my red ones but that's part of the blue ones. There are too difficult to do and they all become but it's an -- have a layer. A blue lines and there are redolent of Greenland Bruins ambulance system who oversight. They'll get there they are now. Again I went into each one of those and change their attributes against that it -- matches like that Greenland is exactly like that no no right now they are. But I went in there and changed each one I went to four different colors didn't red ones and orange ones as well. -- there at all this different varieties now all these different pieces ones that were completed they were brought into the Photoshop file."

" Which will look at now."

" Photoshop."

" And W -- Area and Photoshop here we are now we look at this file will go in there and look at all the different. Letters that I have here. Aniston is that guy off and it's finals this turn this off and we'll turn off placement. Okay here we have pieces and dump my background for a second. Is the reds. There's a green is not noticed that they are slightly that look at us like that change was seek a very slight change. In the movement of these just a little bit at that new ones. There's the blue ones. And the orange ones that this all the different Eminem's in place. And out. What I did -- and is that I turn on and am. And I actually went in there and modify the -- and it's just take a little them. And let's put it into positions they write about here and what I did is I wore that. Has -- closely to see idioms were done as a little extra work but for me it was necessary to get that realism that I want it. So I went in there and I then it'll work. It was at the BM and has kind of what that on to this those shape here. Like though which -- start moving these little handles around. Moving them we have it's just the way we want and there like that. -- it up. Over. And it kind of -- these guys up this way. -- that click okay and did a little M and am -- my little -- on top of that particular and that. I'd sit -- you've got the basic idea of how they all came into the scene so now you'll notice that two other. -- groups here poses went down and turn it off. This one here. What I've done is I've actually taken the Eminem's and I put him in position. I put imposition you know does not now did -- red. I took a particular read that one right there and I copied it from somewhere that you copy from this one. And -- move them over and put this I needed more -- Then the resident pat I need a few more greens and the ones that so here I mean the reason front as those who dreams without any additional. Little Eminem's in there and I started giving them the shadows. It all of the shadows started being applied. -- that each one has a shadow clipped to. It shadows shadows. Shadows and means in front. Shadows on those. And so on so each one has its own shares of look at the blue that I -- the -- on -- if you had those made shows went away. Okay so there is deep shadows that now start to give these guys additional that. And then is the finals. On the finals. To see that same guys but they have additional tones. That have been added more darts is some of them have been darkened to a point all we see is that little tiny bit there. What we're doing about it it's -- this -- back on this is the little subtle red. And greens a little tiny bit to greens and blues and it just popping up here and there which edit all the depth now since. Quite a few of them are indifferent. Lenders. But I did justice going to have to see via the blues say for instance to school and it look at just the built this -- down here billion of those guys. I did the blues now what I did. Is that they are flowing and he's already in place so I grabbed. These two -- stood to these students to say and -- man -- these two right here. And wanted to do is to make them look like they're falling. Their little clothes at the bottom -- maybe not going as much as this in fact -- you wanna do two I would think in both separately. This one has hit there and bouncing it that way so I don't know give -- little motion blur. And the direction but it won't will be thing like that. -- would be bad direction and could be a -- no no it's just a little tiny bounce and just gonna give a little bit about just a touch of a motion blur that way. So it looks like this -- perfectly still because he's already fallen to place disguised as bounced off the decided that this guy's coming down fast this they've come down quite a bit. That a further awaited word the more most of our games I gave motion blur at different levels to create that illusion that some of my little. Eminem's reform the place and it's just part is -- in others it's just coming into place now."

" Which -- is his wife has more space between those and these because those are all crowded in and points down. But it all -- to stuff that went on there it's basically shape in this case such a simple little hostage. Very convoluted to do that in many places and no need for a very expensive -- instances cradle Eminem illustrated gave me got to believe it is creating a quarter. Or half of that edge inside of an -- and then had revolve around -- depart. To give me the full -- and then simply choose the color of the fill. Created the color of the -- A really easy process the end -- then added later so they all look different. And to open position now what's -- position is just a question of what will from around were all individual eyes to see it. -- enough room around a second easily go and select one and move where I want it. If I wanted to slightly overlap it immediately went to another layer who have to -- overlapping. And they have a certain look and the rest of the blue over here and it would be better to -- went over just a little bit well. There are saying there was able program when her whole left and his bottom. So by putting this guy in a separate -- allowed me to take this -- move over. Anywhere I want and then you associate of appease them to be underneath. So when new overlapping they went to another layer which is why in the finals this so many different layers including boom red on red copy. And so on and so forth because additional evidence we'll put all over the place. For each individual Eminem was handled as it into individual object. Easily creative from one original. As one cholera -- nation everything else justice modified. Within the confines of of illustrator and then put into position. Photoshop where all of the life was given to. So its discretion of going in there and playing around with the stuff and I got a good myself it's chocolate because I'm definitely got a sweet -- now. Hope you learned something from all this that there is something that you'd like to see the show email me at revision3.com. All the details of the forms at revision3.com. Forward slash forms. They could join discussion about the show and maybe influence if you his future show. Thanks again for Robert -- when -- and that should I say that but. The good and that's his great background and dubbed meet which is reset itself because -- thing is over but a few seconds goes way up. You guys that really smart look at that thing. So go out there and perfect your pixels. Hope you enjoyed so if you want. Evening's end and no I'm gonna be -- coming to a city near you very similar -- different cities every month and call him becoming a city near you just check out my website and find out about the classes that I give I give -- hands on class radio Berkeley and so on. Go to my site which is -- dot com and I really hope see you next week if you want your stuff here. So that when I'm here next week you'll artwork is back if it does mean thing. It is -- Make your. Beautiful image 1280 by seven point pixels has to be those dimensions as new JPEG file and send it to be occurred at revision3.com. And hopefully we'll see your artwork appear -- your name in lights to be -- world to see. Organized -- another place that's way to learn is deceptive -- see you next week."

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Started discussion: September 14, 2009 @ 10:19am GMT

Episode 143 - Make Your Own M&M's! [Discussion]

A cascading shower of M&M's sounds like a dream come true! Bert Monroy shows you how to illustrate and style M&M's using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

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llancas
2 months ago

M&Ms

Great episode... but I have one question. What is the font for the "M"? Yours looks like the real deal, and that's what I'd like to use.
Johnosullivan
2 months ago
yeah, very good ep, except for one mistake. the angle of the light was different on each m&m.its as if there were four or five different light sources. im surprised that bert made such a basic mistake. other than that, reliable excellent quality from bert yet again.
jackierulesall
2 months ago
In reply to llancas:
Great episode... but I have one question. What is the font for the "M"? Yours looks like the real deal, and that's what I'd like to use.


Looks like it's just Times...
whoisscott
2 months ago
In reply to Johnosullivan:
yeah, very good ep, except for one mistake. the angle of the light was different on each m&m.its as if there were four or five different light sources. im surprised that bert made such a basic mistake. other than that, reliable excellent quality from bert yet again.


HMM i didn't really see that, it could have happened in PS when he moved certain m&ms, because in illustrator they all had one light source.
mari1ee
2 months ago

M&M's font

In reply to jackierulesall:
Looks like it's just Times...


If you Google a clean M&M's logo and load it into whatthefont.com, you can get a list of similar matches. Looks like this one is a close match for the "m" at least.

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/berthold/beton-bq/bold-cond/
Johnosullivan
about 1 month ago
In reply to whoisscott:
HMM i didn't really see that, it could have happened in PS when he moved certain m&ms, because in illustrator they all had one light source.


Yeah, it was while he was moving the individual pieces around in PS...
deverill
about 1 month ago

Technique over End Result

I have a project I'm working on that involves creating a pile of treasure. I saw the episode on creating coins but just couldn't get it in my head how to pile them up without making them look like stacks. This episode is PERFECT for my coins on the top and sides of the pile. With a non-descript textured gold backing and some coins placed as I want I'm set!

It's true what Bert says, it's the way it's done and not the end result that's important.
p0is0n0us
about 1 month ago
Fun episode, I need to learn to use Illustrator :)
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