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Animated SVG stroke to reveal an image?

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I've spent the day testing various methods to get an SVG stroke animation to reveal an image but i've come up with nothing. I've used GSAP to animate SVG's as masks, but i've never attempted to do a stroke animation to act as a mask. I've done this millions of times in After Effects, but just can't seem to wrap my head around this - if its even possible. 

 

In this basic pen i've placed a random image below an SVG stroke animation. Anyone know if this is even possible?

See the Pen mGqLVZ by djmatix (@djmatix) on CodePen

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Hi @digableinc :)

 

Welcome to the forum and thanks for joining Club GreenSock.

 

I'm a fellow AE user too. Masking an image is no problem. The easiest way would be to add the image to your SVG (so it scales nicely) and then create a mask for it. Mask color is important. White will show everything. Black will hide everything. You can use gradients in masks too. Here's a fork of your pen:

 

 

See the Pen PdOeaN by PointC (@PointC) on CodePen

 

We had another question recently about showing a full screen background image and this was my mask solution for that thread:

 

See the Pen xJNWez by PointC (@PointC) on CodePen

 

Here's a good resource for some additional learning about masks and clip-paths.

https://css-tricks.com/masking-vs-clipping-use/

 

Hopefully that helps. Happy tweening and welcome aboard.

:)

 

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Wow that is exactly what I was looking to do! Your note about being able to use gradients in masks is interesting. Applying a gradient to the path would allow for a softer path reveal instead of a hard edge. Going to have to look into that. Thanks for the quick response!

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