# How to break a movie clip?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-a-movie-clip/320557>\
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**Created:** [March 26, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-a-movie-clip/320557 "2011-03-26T21:48:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![liner986](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bbce88/32.png) [@liner986](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/liner986)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-break-a-movie-clip/320557/1 "2011-03-26T21:48:27Z")

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hi,

i wanted to break a movieclip holding a dynamically loaded photo into several irregular fragments of smaller movieclips for a transition animation using action script (i.e. at runtime).

does anyone know how to do it ? or any possible sources/tutorials?