How to make this animation

[Michael Szalapski]

It looks like the tree shapes are revealed using videos of ink in a tank of water on another layer as a luma matte. Or something similar.

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[David Hueso]

osea tu crees que simplemente son ilustraciones ..que se van revelando con luma matte…
gracias

[Ryan Hill]

I think it looks similar to this:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/hansen_jaysen/growing.php

With a dozen bunches of leaves for each tree being scaled up simultaneously. If I were to try this, I’d probably use expressions to tie the scale and rotation of each bunch of leaves to a single slider. They might also have some bunches that are parented to the first collection of bunches.

So, you’ll spend a lot of time constructing the tree, but once you have it, you can animate it pretty easily. If you’re doing a lot of trees, you might want to add some other properties that can be adjusted so you can make each tree slightly different just by changing some values.

[David Hueso]

thanks pal…you are great