How the plant is put together

Using the construction method explained in the earlier blog entry I make various branch and leaf growing animations, like these...








I also took a picture of the stick (aka cane) mentioned in the Inspirt story and removed the background from it.



Importing everything into After Effects I now reposition the animations over each other at varying positions in the timeline. So as soon as one animation finishes playing another one begins so it creates the illusion of continuous growth.

The squares in the image below represent the handles along the boundries of each invidiual animation.