Here's what you have been waiting for—an animated write-on effect.
1. | Click on the Paint brush icon to go back to Paint mode. |
2. | Make sure that you are in Persist mode for this effect, because you want to animate the stroke over time. |
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4. | Toggle QuickPaint to Edit mode so that you can see the stroke. The two parameters startPoint and endPoint determine the percentage point at which the stroke starts drawing and at which it ends. You can therefore make a stroke animate its writing by setting keyframes for the endPoint from 0 to 100 over several frames. |
5. | In the Edit tab, turn on the Keyframe toggle for the endPoint parameter at frame 1. |
6. | Set the value to 0. |
7. | Go to frame 50 and set the endPoint to a value of 100. |
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9. | In the Globals tab, set the timeRange to 1-50. |
10. | Click the Flipbook button, play the clip, and close when done. It is a thing of beauty. |