growing a plant

[Jon Agnew]

did you try precomposing the growing vines?

[John M. rice]

This is the tutorial for you:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing.php
I just used it the other day. a bit long but it covers the topic well.

[Darby Edelen]

[Jon Hornbacher] “But Stroke doesn’t seem to enlarge with the rest of the rasterized vector graphic. When I zoom in on the move with the camera, the stroke stays the same width rather than staying relative to the graphic. “

This will happen if the vector layer is set to continuously rasterize. Another option might be doing the stroke on a solid above the layer, parenting the solid with the stroke applied to the vector layer and using the solid as a track matte.

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Jon Hornbacher]

Thanks for the responses! Very helpful tutorial too.

But for zooming WAY in on a vector file with a Stroke effect, Darby nailed it:
[Darby Edelen]“Another option might be doing the stroke on a solid above the layer, parenting the solid with the stroke applied to the vector layer and using the solid as a track matte.”

Everything is rasterized EXCEPT for the solid. When the camera zooms in on the vector art, the solid layer’s Stroke effect pixelates, but you still end up with a perfectly rasterized graphic:

https://buffalonas.com/tiltmedia/links/STROKE_RASTER.mov

Thanks again.

–jon–

Jon Hornbacher
Tilt Media

[Clinton Inselmann]

I’m not sure I under stand this work-around.

I used Jayse Hansen growing vines tutorial and every thing works fine… EXCEPT when I scale or zoom or even toggle the continuously rasterize off and on. The stroke for the write on effect doesn’t stay in the right place or scale correctly.

Any help/explanation would be greatly appreciated.