Shape Tweening Vector objects in AFX 7

[Mylenium]

Hi there,

I would greatly appreciate to know how to animate a vector object in After Effects.
I have a line drawing of a lemon from Illustrator, that needs to 'squeeze' in and for a drop of juice to come out.

I look forward to a reply!
Thanks kindly

You don't! Vector graphics are treated like bitmap images and beyond the normal scale/rotate/transform properties and the effects, there is no deeper access to them to animate e.g. point-level transforms. That can only be achieved by copying your vector shapes to the clipboard in illustrator and pasting them as masks.

Mylenium

[Helix Design]

Thanks, it all seemed to be working well by pasting the points from my illustrator path and putting them into a solid layer in AFX to create a mask.
Hmm.. yes, it all worked sweet until i changed the thickness of the path back in Illustrator (i am assuming that this is where i went wrong), and the tweening went all crazy. It didnt tween the path (sorry mask) but skewd and stretched it out of shape then into the other object. Maybe i should explain that i used the live trace tool over a photo of a lemon to create the paths. Also, the two objects are indeed the same object but with the second object is just 'squeezed' in the middle..
OKay..thanks heaps

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