Creating lines that draw

- One of the basic animation effects…that I find I use frequently, is to simply have a line…that draws in some way.…It's an effect that's easy to do,…but it does involve a bit of trickery.…Let's take a look at some examples here.…I'll show them to you in the preview panel.…We have a horizontal line,…a diagonal, a line with an arrow,…and a curved line.…Let's take a look at how these are done.…I'm going to turn to the second page of my file,…where the objects are not animated.…Let's start with the horizontal line.…For this, as I've shown in other videos,…we're going to use a scaling trick.…

We're going to set the width of the line to 0,…leave the height at 100.…We're going to animate it to its current appearance.…We want it to go from 0% width to its current width,…and we're going to change the orientation proxy to the left.…Let's take a look,…there we go!…The line draws, it's that simple.…I'm going to delete this line, and let's focus…on our diagonal line here.…We're basically going to apply the same settings:…the width will be 0, it'll scale to its current appearance,…