Why is my "pencil" tool not rasterizing and when I scale it still pixelated?

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September 5, 2023
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Rick Gerard

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This looks like the comp Magnification Ratio in the bottom left corner of the Composition panel is set to 400% or more. If that is the case, there is nothing wrong. After Effects (all movie editing apps) work in pixels, so when you Magnify the pixels, you will see them.

I do not believe that it is a scale issue unless the anchor point is precisely located in the top left corner of the white graphic.

You can see the same kind of thing in Illustrator if you turn on Pixel Preview in the View menu.

If you had not cropped your screenshot and you had shown us the entire UI and the modified properties (press uu) of the timeline, we would have known for sure.

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Satura21960127yb97Author

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Thanks for answering; but I have a 1920x1080 file, I must vectorize the eyes of a character and for this I must approach my work table, when I reach the comfortable size of the eyes they become pixelated just because I draw them with the brush; when i create a layer by default and then convert it to bezier it doesn't pixelate either. Basically I have to create a default shape (box, circle, rectangle) and add new nodes to avoid pixelation from the pen.

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Rick Gerard

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You have to judge the quality of the scaled image with the comp Magnification Ratio set to 100%. If the critical part of the comp is too small to judge accurately, you can go to 200% but realize that you are magnifying the pixels.

If you use the brush, you are dealing with pixels and can't scale them up. If you use a shape layer, you can scale. If you start with an Illustrator file, there is no need to convert the Vector Layer to a Shape Layer unless you are actually animating a path or using a shape layer animator.

I'm still a little confused by your workflow. How did you create the original character? How are you animating the layers? If you have figured out that you need a shape or Illustrator layer for the eyes, you have solved your problem.

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