Hi all, I was wondering if any expert VUE users could help me out trying to figure out how to stop this from happening the next. I was able to get this done but I had to edit individual frames in Photoshop in order to remove the problem you see in the pic. The objective was to animate tree growth which I did do using the edit object settings and customizing them along the timeline, but I am wondering if there is a way to remove the stubby spikes the flip from upward to downwards as the animation progressed. This happened near the middle of the animation so I only had to edit about 20 frames, so was not too bad. The other question I had is why is it when I save the file and open back up again, VUE does not save the keyframing in the animation I did? I hope this is not real confusing and the pic speaks for itself, but please let me know if you need any other details. I use VUE5 Pro.

Looks like a tree hooked on halucinogyns. 

I don't know the answer, but I assure you that if you give this thread a day or so some very knowledgable people will help you out.  Sorry I couldn't help.

Just an idea though, since I don't do animation work, would there be a way of controlling the various parts of the tree growth?  For example, are your current settings effecting both the trunk and the branches?  If so, could you restrict the tree growth just to the branches and leaves?
Just an idea.....

 Hi garyandcatherine, appreciate the reply. The settings I use affect everything from the leaves to the trunk and I believe where this distortion is coming from is in the Gnarl setting. At the start of the animation everything is set to the maximum negative value and then slowly adjusted with keyframing to the end of the animation.