# Animating lines

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 12, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014 "2002-11-12T16:12:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![skasif11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@skasif11](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skasif11)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014/1 "2002-11-12T16:12:03Z")

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I know there used to be a tutorial somewhere on how to animate lines, can anyone help me out on this one? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014/2 "2002-11-12T16:41:04Z")

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do u meen like animate as is a motion or shape tween?  
Flash MX comes with the tutorials u need for that

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014/3 "2002-11-12T16:42:55Z")

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both motion and shape…thanks for the info, Ill look into it

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014/4 "2002-11-12T21:47:33Z")

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NP

Hey let me know how the project turns out or if i can help u out with any thing else!

Good Luck

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2002, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animating-lines/8014/5 "2002-11-13T10:05:08Z")

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I’ve found though that if you’re doing a shape tween on a line, you have to be very careful. Sometimes for no apparent reason, it will flip the ends of your line over in the course of the tween. This happened to me while I was trying to make a dancing stickman. All I did was bend a ‘leg’ line a little bit, and it did all kinds of funky things when I ran it through…