# Help with animating a painting effect

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 17, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-animating-a-painting-effect/316251 "2010-11-17T00:24:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christina\_Flash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@Christina\_Flash](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Christina_Flash)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-animating-a-painting-effect/316251/1 "2010-11-17T00:24:24Z")

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I am trying to do what I think is a simple animation but I can’t get it to look right. I want to the animation to look like a mural is being painted on a white canvas paper. I want this to happen automatically and do not want to use any action script.

So far I tried the following:

1. In the bottom layer I placed the white canvas layer.
2. Above that layer I place the mural.
3. I masked the mural.
4. Then I tried a several shape tweens moving a a circle shape diagonally stretching from the top to bottom to reveal the image underneath.

Now I have several issues with this. First of all this does not look like it’s being painted on. Second, if the shape tweens touch, the start to morph.

I found the following painting reveal technique and would be happy with something like this [http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/115/46/](http://www.tutorial5.com/content/view/115/46/) but this tutorial involves a mouse controlling the painting effect. I want it to be automatic.

Also I saw this component, [http://activeden.net/item/autodraw-dynamic-hand-drawn-graphic-pencil-effect/47185](http://activeden.net/item/autodraw-dynamic-hand-drawn-graphic-pencil-effect/47185)  
A similar revealing effect like the airbrush would be good.

Please advise