Subtitles of the Movie

Continuing on with our detailing of Excalibur my eye jumps right to the runes now because the shadows are actually pointing out this glaring lack of perspective. So I'm going to click on the runes temporarily to unlock it and click on it and I want to show you a quick way to distort it. We can go to our Effect menu and we can choose to Distort, Free Distort. With this option we can move our panel over and then we can move things down like so, and we can do the same thing in this corner, and click OKay to change the perspective amount in whatever we have in our layer. So now the runes are following the contours of the sword more clearly and I like that better. So I'm going to lock the runes and I'm going to unlock the pommel and I'm going to unlock the guard rear, the grip, and the guard, so we can start to color some of these strokes. Once again, what you might want to do is then take this into Photoshop or Painter and really add some more effects because we can only do some base stuff here. So I'm going to click on this pommel duplicate and this one here and I think I'm going to give it a color like dark gray, and see what that looks like. And actually I want to color the stroke not the fill. I want to make sure we color the stroke. So hit X on the keyboard and select a nice dark color, and that brings a lot more richness to those two pieces of the geometry. And I'm going to do the same thing for these guys here; a nice darker color, so we can more clearly see the shading. Oh, that looks great. And, last but not least, we'll do it to this one here. And I'm going to give this guy a different color. Something kind of like magical, like a light blue, or a blue color, so that this looks like it belongs in a fantasy setting. Now that we have those colors in place, I'm going to lock everything and create one more layer, and we'll call this one Scratches. What we're going to do on this layer is we're going to create some nicks, and we can easily create those by just taking our Pen tool, or the Line tool, and with a nice gray color we can just draw out a couple of lines like this, and you'll start to see that the nicks show up in the darker areas. Have a couple criss-cross like that. And I went a little too far with that one. Let me make sure I bring that back in. Just to add a couple of, of different variants to the actual blade itself. Now it looks like it's actually been in battle. So let me zoom out a little bit. So. We started off with some very, very basic shapes. Some paths. And we extruded them; we revolved them, and we created leather, we created stitching, we changed some of the colors, we gave it our own gradient and as well as some scratches and runes, and all within Illustrator we created our own copy of Excalibur. What you can do now is take this to your favorite painting application and then apply some metal textures to it or just continue to play with it in Illustrator and use more layers to add more detail. I hope you enjoyed this project and I hope you learned some techniques that you can apply to other projects in the future.