Deformed when rotating

[Vishesh Arora]

Alex

Check your Anchor Point position for object that you want to revolve around the center object.
It should be at the Center of the Center Object. For this you can use Pan Behind Tool(Y) and move the anchor point to the center.

Also if you are using Ellipse tool to to make your object then their are to anchor points for that, one for the content menu and one for the Transform menu.

Vishesh Arora
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[Darby Edelen]

What are your Composition Settings (cmd/ctrl-k)? If your composition is using non-square pixels then things may appear to squish/stretch if you don’t have PAR Preview enabled.

Another possibility if you have a complex parent/child hierarchy may be one of your objects (or nulls) is not uniformly scaled. Check the scale properties of your layers.

Darby Edelen

[Alex Ward]

Hey thanks for your help. But i’m a noob at after effects 🙂 and i didnt really understand. Would i be able to send you the project file and you could see whats wrong?

[Darby Edelen]

Sure, there’s a file upload function on the COW. Click the button that looks like a floppy disk above the new message text. After uploading you’ll get a link that you can paste into the message body.

Darby Edelen

[Alex Ward]

4744_2dintro.aep.zip

I’m trying to rotate the small circle around the large circle in the center but when i start to rotate it around it becomes deformed

[Alex Ward]

Its Ok! I fixed it sorry for wasting your time