diff --git a/manimlib/animation/fading.py b/manimlib/animation/fading.py
index c8103cbd..1ed2996f 100644
--- a/manimlib/animation/fading.py
+++ b/manimlib/animation/fading.py
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ class FadeTransform(Transform):
         start, end = self.starting_mobject, self.ending_mobject
         for m0, m1 in ((start[1], start[0]), (end[0], end[1])):
             self.ghost_to(m0, m1)
-        self.ending_mobject.align_data(self.mobject)
 
     def ghost_to(self, source: Mobject, target: Mobject) -> None:
         source.replace(target, stretch=self.stretch, dim_to_match=self.dim_to_match)
diff --git a/manimlib/mobject/types/vectorized_mobject.py b/manimlib/mobject/types/vectorized_mobject.py
index 2629552c..26360254 100644
--- a/manimlib/mobject/types/vectorized_mobject.py
+++ b/manimlib/mobject/types/vectorized_mobject.py
@@ -944,6 +944,10 @@ class VMobject(Mobject):
     def refresh_triangulation(self):
         for mob in self.get_family():
             mob.needs_new_triangulation = True
+            mob.data["orientation"] = resize_array(
+                mob.data["orientation"],
+                mob.get_num_points()
+            )
         return self
 
     def get_triangulation(self):