[Benjamin Pattin]

The extra work with scale is that, when I have a moving magnifying glass, I need to keyframe the position of the underlying artwork so that what i want to see through the glass is at the right place. I’ve tried it in another comp today and maybe found what was causing the blur, I guess it has something to do with 2D and 3D: yesterday i had DOF on and what not with a 2D layer (the magnifying glass) on top of all my 3D artwork, tried it now in 2D and works just fine. But anyway, did the forementioned workaround with scale, today’s a new day. Next time i’ll try precomping the whole lot and do the magnifying afterwards.

Thanks anyway,
Cheers,
B

[Benjamin Pattin]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your reply. The thing you proposed worked, but only to a certain extent, I’ve made a precomp of 30.000px and scaled the .ai’s way up, but still there was too much blur. I finally ended up deleting the adjustment layer, making a precomp with all the artwork on 200%, putting it behind the magnifying glass layer and masking and keyframing the whole lot. Took me way too long but didn’t see any other opportunity, also there’s no more bulge (bulge made the blur only worse, it seemed).

Anywho, thanks for the tip, I’m sure it’ll come in hande one day.

Cheers

Benjamin