Yes I have been using illustrator for 4 years and have obtained my Adobe Illustrator Associate Certification. The problem with just tracing is that I need to have a much more complex version of that tree. There will be 4 sections all inter-connected. The project is 18×3 feet, so it needs to take up a lot of space. I was hoping there would be another way to achieve this other than using the pen tool and creating all the branches by hand. I was hoping there was some plugin or something similar to a trapcode plugin that would allow me to create nodes to connect and move as dynamic objects.