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I built this banner a while back. I was able to convince the client early on to have this built in Flash 8 because that was the dawning of BitmapData in Flash. Without BitmapData there would have to be layers upon layers of MovieClips with transparent images in them which is never a good thing. I don’t even want to think about how hard this thing would be chugging the processor. Everything had to be under 40K filesize which wasn’t easy with such a graphics heavy banner. Basically all I did was overlap a bunch of images (the individual sprays) for each color as the spraycan moved across. That gave the illusion the can was spraying. When the can stopped spraying I took a snapshot (BitmapData.draw()) of the container MovieClip which housed the spray and removed all of the spray MovieClips from the stage. That kept the Flash player free and clear of having to constantly redraw all of those transparent images. It all came out pretty smooth, I was happy about that.