Combustion 2 for After Effects Users
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| Figure 9. See, I told you my Illustrator layers got renamed like this. You should have trusted me. |
These are not particularly useful names, but for this exercise it doesn't matter. Now, if you were to select each layer individually and scale them up to 200%, they'd all be nice and crisp like we want them to be, but we'd have a little overlap problem (fig. 10). [an error occurred while processing this directive]
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| Figure 10. Whoops. |
We're going to need to group everything together to avoid this, so click once on the FilledPath 1085 layer to select it, then shift+click on the Group (1000) layer to select all four layers simultaneously. Then go to the Object menu and select Group to create the new group, which for me was automagically named Group 4. Again, this name is not particularly helpful, so right click (Windows) or control+click (Mac) on the Group 4 group, choose Rename, and then type OrbitMonkeyPaintGroup as the new group name. So now that you have a single group, make sure that the Paint Controls tab is selected, and then click the Transform tab. Under Scale, click the Proportional button, and then scrub either the X or Y scale up to 200% (fig. 11). I also had to move the X position to 622 and the Y position to 404 to make the artwork fit the resized Solid object.
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| Figure 11. Just put the numbers you see here into your project and no one gets hurt. |
The last thing we'll do in this exercise is go back to the containing Composite operator and see what happened. Double click on the Composite - Illustrator layer, and your Viewport should show part of the orange cape and part of the text. If you click once on the OrbitMonkey layer (directly below the Composite - Illustrator layer), make sure the Composite Controls tab is active, select the Transform tab, and then set the X position to -313 and the Y position to 180, you'll see how crisp the artwork is (fig. 12) at what is (in relative terms) double the size when compared to our earlier image.
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| Figure 12. Orbit Monkey's looking much better now. He's still angry, for some reason. |
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