# How to do a certain kind of animation (I'm stumped)

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-a-certain-kind-of-animation-im-stumped/190946
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 15, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-a-certain-kind-of-animation-im-stumped/190946 "2006-06-15T21:51:28Z")
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### Author: ![wolfsparty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@wolfsparty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wolfsparty)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-a-certain-kind-of-animation-im-stumped/190946/1 "2006-06-15T21:51:28Z")

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I’m trying to figure out how to create an animation in which an object (like a curved line) basically starts off as a point and transformes into the full image gradually, as if it were being drawn.  
I made a little gif animation as an example of what i mean:  
 ![](http://sevencities.net/images/box-animation.gif)  
like that, except of course fluid and smooth.