- In this movie, we're gonna rotate our paths,
and then we're gonna fuse them all together
in order to create a single path outline
as you see here.
So that the rocket is truly a negative space
inside of the planet Saturn.
Alright, I'll go ahead and switch over
to my document in progress here
and the first thing thing we want to do
is duplicate the "base shapes" layer.
After all, we don't want to lose our original base shapes.
That would be a crime.
And to duplicate a layer,
you select it here inside the layers panel,
then go to the panel's flyout menu
and choose Duplicate "Base Shapes" in our case
in order to create a copy of that layer.
Then turn off the original so you don't mess it up.
Now, go ahead and double-click in an empty portion
of the new layer to bring up the Layer Options dialog box.
Go ahead and call this guy, "fused art" let's say,
and change the color of the layer to Dark Green.
At least that's what I'm gonna do.
And then, go ahead and click OK.
Alright, now we want to rotate the shapes
so go ahead and select them all by pressing
Control A or Command A on the Mac.
And then, switch from the Reflect Tool
back to the Rotate Tool,
which you can also get by pressing the R key.
We want to rotate the shapes around the center of Saturn.
Right at this location here.
So go ahead and Alt click or Option click
on that center point, bring up the rotate dialog box
and then, change the angle to 30 degrees.
And when you turn the Preview check box on, you'll see
as I'm seeing, that I'm rotating
the thing in the wrong direction.
And if that happens to you, all you need to do
is change the Angle value to -30 degrees, in our case.
And that will rotate the shapes to the right
as we're seeing here.
At which point, I'll go ahead and click OK
in order to accept that change.
Alright, now I'm gonna switch back
to the black arrow tool, which I can get by
selecting it at the top of the Tool Box
or I can press the V key.
And then I'll click off the shapes to deselect them
and I'll click on any of the shapes
associated with the rocket,
in order to select that entire compound shape.
And notice, you can tell it's a compound shape
because you'll see the words Compound Shape
over here in the far-left side of the control panel.
Now what we want to do is fuse them all
into a single path outline,
and you do that by going back to the Window menu
and choosing the Pathfinder command
to bring up the Pathfinder panel.
And with any luck, you'll see this Expand button.
Now, for some reason, it's dimmed.
Then just click off the shapes
and then click on them again to reselect them.
At which point, you should see
the Expand button is available.
Then go ahead and click on that button.
And what happens, notice, is that Illustrator
goes ahead and combines all five of the subpaths
that made up the compound shape
into a single closed path outline.
And you can tell it's a path outline
because you'll now see the word Path
over here in the far-left side of the control panel.
Alright, now we need to merge together
the three paths that make up Saturn.
So go ahead and partially marquee them, like so.
Don't get the rocket, just get Saturn and its rings
with the black arrow tool, like so.
And then go up to the Pathfinder panel
and click on this first icon, Unite,
in order to fuse them together.
And then finally, you want to shift click on the rocket,
so both Saturn and the rocket are selected.
And now, click on the second blend mode,
Minus Front, in order to cut the rocket
out of Saturn, like so.
And in the edge, notice, up here, in the control panel
this very first item is gonna read, "Compound Path"
and that's because these rings right here,
these inner rings, are cutting holes in the outside shape
that ultimately wraps all the way around Saturn
and its rings and through the rocket as well.
Confirming that we have what Illustrator
considers to be a single path outline.
And now I'm gonna click off the path to deselect it.
And that now officially completes the creation
of the graphic portion of our logo.
In the next chapter, I'll show you how to create the text.