# Animated pencil-please look!

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**Created:** [April 18, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-pencil-please-look/223021 "2007-04-18T19:46:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaoss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac8455/32.png) [@kaoss](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kaoss)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-pencil-please-look/223021/1 "2007-04-18T19:46:00Z")

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lo all. i asked about this other day but no luck ☹ i guess i was a bit vague!  
im tryin to animate a pencil/paintbrush to draw/paint the intro for a site.

[http://www.kaoss.org.uk/drawn/](http://www.kaoss.org.uk/drawn/)

if youve got 5 mins take a look at the link. thats what i got so far, im usin shape tweens and such. the problem is the frames/layers are buildin up and im strugglin to keep the pencil/lines in sync.  
anybody got any tips/hints/links for a source on how to do this in a more efficient/simple way, i feel like im goin the wrong way about it and wastin precious time!

ne help much appreciated…

kev.