 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Illustrator 2022 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to use the new 3D and materials panel right here to create big brass balls. That's right guys we're going to do some gigachat brass balls here so I'm going to show you how to do this so let's go ahead and neglect and delete these balls and let's go ahead and start creating our own from scratch so I've got this really ugly lopsided person here stickman and I want to create some brass balls. The first step I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the left side here going to grab that ellipse tool and I'm just going to go ahead and draw out a perfect circle this looks like a good size for a ball so we're going to have a nice cool looking purple ball to start. I'm going to go ahead and hold down the alt key if you're on a pc option key if you're on a mac and I'm going to drag the side so we're going to have two balls all right cool the first step is I'm going to go ahead and left click on the on the left ball and I'm going to I'm going to open up the 3d and materials panel or window now when you do that you have a bunch of different options but what we want to do is we want to inflate the balls all right cool you see what we did there we've got some inflation on that left ball now we want to go to materials so I've taken the object we're in 3d materials we've inflated the ball now we're going to go ahead and switch down to materials and when you do that you're going to see a whole bunch of different options for the balls now when we go down to the bottom here I mean if I look at this die cast brass this is a pretty sweet looking ball so I'm going to go ahead and left click on die cast brass and presto we've gone ahead now and created a nice looking brass ball now you can of course go in here and make some adjustments if you want if you want to see what a gold set of balls like gold finger might look like you can left click on gold leaf ball or gold natural for that matter and you've got another cool looking ball or even copper foil actually this looks really cool too and this does have a sort of brassy look too so I'm just going to show you a few different options for the balls let's go ahead and right click on this one and I'm going to make this one a die cast brass ball so we've got a brass ball and a copper ball so that we're working and taking a look here let's work on the copper ball I'm going to go now and switch up to lighting and I won't go and bore you with the details but you can make a whole bunch of changes like the intensity of the lighting the rotation of the lighting depending on where you want your light source the softness of the lighting the ball and stuff like that and even things like intensity so I'm going to go ahead and dial down the intensity and again these are all different options that you can work with we can also change the color so if you want to go to a like a bit of a darker color for the light for example maybe we'll go with something like that hit okay we've got a darker colored ball but this is how you go ahead and make some really cool adjustments and you can start making that brass ball look let's go ahead and add in some variation here you can add in some irregularities so you're getting the point here but the main thing is yeah aging let's get some old grandfather balls um and I mean that like as in a grandfather clock uh but yes there are an amazing amount of material properties and things that you can do but but just going into this 3d and materials and adjusting the different um materials here like traveled what would a traveled ball look like um I don't even want to guess but uh yeah okay let's travel the ball so again guys this is how you go ahead and make brass balls and a variety of other balls inside adobe illustrator using 3d and materials that's all for this tutorial thanks for watching be back