# Animating Size Changes with the Scale Tool

Use the Scale tool to animate changes to the size of pegs and their child elements. When the Scale tool is active, the peg displays square scaling handle that allows you to stretch or shrink the size of the peg and all attached elements.

To change the size of a peg and its child elements, you must work in the Camera View window (you cannot scale an element in either the Top or Side View windows).

When you scale a peg at a frame that has no keyframe, a scale keyframe marker appears in the Timeline window.

| When you scale pegs, all elements attached to the pegs also resize. The scale value of the peg appears on the Peg tab. Any scale change you add to keyframes are based on the static scale value of the peg plus the changes you make.

To scale a peg in the Camera View window:

1. Select the peg in the Timeline window. The peg appears in all Sceneplanning View windows.

2. Select Tools > Sceneplanning Tools > Scale. This activates the Scale tool. The square scaling handle appears on the selected peg at the current frame.

3. Drag the frame slider to the frame where you want to create the scale keyframe.

4. Use the scale handles to resize the peg’s height, width or both. Press [Shift] to maintain the proportions of the element as you scale it.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for every scale change you want to apply to the peg.

You can edit vertical and horizontal scale keyframes with the V-Scale and H-Scale functions in the Function Editor.

See Also
Animating with the Transform Tool
Tweening Motion or Maintaining Constant Values Between Keyframes
Positioning Pivot Points on Cut-Out Characters
Editing Functions in the Function Editor
Moving Motion Points with the Motion Point Tab
Animating Elements with Pegs
Creating Motion Paths with the Motion Tool
Animating Rotation with the Rotate Tool
Copying and Pasting Keyframe Values