Re: FLASH: "self-drawing"technique

[Marc Hoffman]

At 03:02 PM 5/18/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Hello everyone!

>

>Does anyone know how to show the actual process of an object being drawn? -- 

>as if the object was drawing itself (without showing the hand). I saw this 

>effect in a cool site about architecture where a house was being drawn and 

>I'm trying to figure out the technique behind it. It seems impossible with 

>the mask. Tired of raking my brains to no avail. Thanks in advance.

>

>cloe


Several ways to do it.  In one, you start with the entire object and,

frame-by-frame, cover it with a bit more mask so it's revealed slowly.

Another way, create the entire object and, frame-by-frame, remove a little

bit (creating keyframes as you go). Then select all frames,

Modify>Frames>Reverse.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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