I did a project of a growing tree with branches and leaves before Xmas. After looking at a few variations of how to do it I jumped in and started from scratch by creating a mask of the tree as a sapling, then animated it growing by moving vertices and adding more as it grows creating the branches, and so on. It didn’t take me as long as I thought it would and would have saved myself time just doing it and not looking online for a quick way to do it. If you know how it needs to look in the end, then you should just create an animated mask that grows to what you want to see. Can you send me the image of the vines?
Todd Morgan
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