# Cool animated line drawing

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**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-animated-line-drawing/250731 "2008-01-31T23:20:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff\_lebowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@jeff\_lebowski](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeff_lebowski)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cool-animated-line-drawing/250731/1 "2008-01-31T23:20:15Z")

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hello, I am looking for a way to create an animation in flash like this link:

[http://www.edwardporter.com/flash/Comp1.mov](http://www.edwardporter.com/flash/Comp1.mov)

ok, so maybe this animation is not that cool. But line ‘draw-ons’ like this are quite common and I cannot find an easy way to do this in flash. I have tried masks, but (as far as I can tell) the line path is too complex for a mask. I have tried animating it using shape hints, but flash just gets hopeless confused as to how I want the line to animate on. I could export this as an swf out of AfterEffects, but the file size seems way too big for what the animation is. I have begun to realize that maybe this type of animation is often achieved using actionscript.

I am looking for a step-by step explanation of doing this in actionscript. I’m an actionscript beginner, but ready to learn! I am using flash cs3.

thank you for your help and consideration,

Jeff Lebowski