Help me to create an hud element

[mushanga75]

Hi everyone,

I decided to make my curriculum in the form of futuristic hud.

I am taking a cue from the various examples of the web and I came across an element that I would like to create but I can not understand how to do it. This is one of the 3 examples in the attached photo. I would like first of all to understand if I have to see the 3 subjects as shapes or as paths.

How would you proceed? Thanks a lot.

[Towerguy]

Hi. I would use shapes, simpler and more flexible if you want to animate them.

[mushanga75]

Oh ok, so not with the pen tool but using the shape tool.

[Towerguy · Accepted solution]

Hi. You can, and probably should, use the pen tool. If no layer is selected and you use the pen tool it automatically creates a shape layer. With the shape layer selected you can add individual shapes to the same layer. Use stroke with no fill to create the borders, then you can create shapes with fill where you want the thicker sections. If you haven't worked with shapes before I highly recommend Andrew Devis (or for any beginner his basics course is excellent. Tutorial 17 talks about your initial question and should get you started:

CreativeCOW

[mushanga75]

I think i will take a look to the tutorial u suggested to me.

Thnx a lot

[Byron Cortez]

If you do it like Shape you have a lot of animation options with the Operators.

[Doc Maik]

I would find such elements on the internet or draw them myself in AI, then place as image in a layer. Depends on if they shall be rigid or mobile or even flexible. It's very easy to draw vector graphics like these in MS Visio. AI also does that, but more complicated.