Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Estimated Completion Time: 35 minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
It’s time to create some Northern Lights. Ryan from QuintalDesigns demonstrates how to light up the vector night sky in this video tutorial. Using gradients, blur effects and more you will learn how to create a vector Aurora Borealis in Adobe Illustrator.
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Nice, love it! Keep it up.
Nice look. You’re also got a voice for radio… very professional sounding.
Not that this is in your control but I would like to see the entire end result without having to click through the video. The 200px preview is ok but for video tuts it would be convenient to see the entire image beforehand.
I agree Jonathan, I’ll get a preview up soon
Sweetness! The preview you added is perfect!
i REALLY hate these screencast tutorials. i wish you would have done this as a normal tutorial instead. damn video playback sucks and takes forever.
hmm i didn’t get very far with this.. when in the first movie you use af key to make several lines, but what is that key you call it af what a tilt a key??? i don’t know if thats is a mac expression or?? i have a scandinavian keyboard if that have anything to do with that?!
It’s the Tilde key ( ~ ), I’m not sure where it is on non English keyboards, but this Wikipedia article may help – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde
This, is just the thing I was looking for.
I love this site
It seems to be much harder when you look at the final image, but after watching this video you understand that it is very easy to do.
Must say I disagree with Justin. I find it easier to follow the tutorial as a screencast. Interesting tutorial, perhaps could’ve been speeded up a bit.. Regarding the Tilde key, on UK keyboard, I found it situated where @ and ‘ key is, that is second key from L. Hope that helps.
Thanks for the feedback guys, I’ll try to speed the next one up! And pay extra attention to keys and how I communicate them.
nice but you need to integrate it in a better ambient.
I like this aurora effects!
(but the mountain could be better !)
Love this stuff!
Very nice effect here!! Great tutorial!
Muchas Gracias, Super!!!
part 2 is no more available..
Hey guys i’m not being able to use the tilde key, in the spanish keyboard it’s beside the the “4″ and i got to press alt gr or control alt to write it, but there’s no way that works with illustrator, don’t you know where to find it tnthe menues?
thanks!
great tut and dynamic Ryan!!!