How Do I Make & Animate A Rectangle Outline Without Having To Stop At Each Corner, Please?

I'm trying to make my own animated logo...


My logo is super simple, it's just a rectangle outline with text in it (Please, see the image).



I can animate the text fine, but I'm finding it difficult to recreate the rectangle outline...


Can anyone, please, help?


And any advice on how to animate the rectangle outline, please?


Thank you!

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 14, 2020 2:19 AM

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Posted on Mar 14, 2020 6:37 AM

Just use the rectangle tool to draw the rectangle, don’t do separate lines.


The example I showed you only involved:

a) Select the rectangle tool

b) Click and drag to make a rectangle

c) In the Inspector, uncheck “Fill” to have only the contour of the rectangle

d) Optionally, adjust the color and line width

e) Select the rectangle in the layers list and choose Write on from the Behaviors menu


You can always make adjustments in the Inspector: for example have it drawn in one direction or the opposite, choose where the drawing starts.


Also, and you probably know this, you can adjust the start and end time of the behavior by selecting it in the timeline and pressing I or O.

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Mar 14, 2020 6:37 AM in response to Ningiszida

Just use the rectangle tool to draw the rectangle, don’t do separate lines.


The example I showed you only involved:

a) Select the rectangle tool

b) Click and drag to make a rectangle

c) In the Inspector, uncheck “Fill” to have only the contour of the rectangle

d) Optionally, adjust the color and line width

e) Select the rectangle in the layers list and choose Write on from the Behaviors menu


You can always make adjustments in the Inspector: for example have it drawn in one direction or the opposite, choose where the drawing starts.


Also, and you probably know this, you can adjust the start and end time of the behavior by selecting it in the timeline and pressing I or O.

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