Image - with a WriteOn effect

I'm trying to make a image draw on my canvas. I've got an image with tribal band styled lines that are really intricate and I'm trying to make them write on over the duration of my motion clip. I'd rather not copy the entire image with lines and use the write on behavior to make it work because it will take hours. Is there an easier way to do this. My source image is photoshop and the lines are one of the brushes I've got in photoshop.
Any Ideas?

I mean... you could, depending on the shape, animate some crazy shapes that you're using as a mask. But yeah... if it's intricate, the best way will be to make lines out of it...
Maybe you could use the replicator with the sequence replicator in some fun way to do this, but you'd still have to trace the lines for that by hand.
There isn't a quick and easy filter to drop on to make it do what you want.

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    4. Don't do this unless you want to throw away HALF the picture information. Deinterlace deletes half the picture and then photoshop recreates it through interpolation of the remaining half of the picture. Why do this?
    5. Make your determination based on what works. If you have properly exposed and sized the material, the need to blur is greatly reduced. ONLY do it on the images that need it. Why degrade every image if you do not need to do so?
    6. See number 5
    7. Lay out your time line early, view the work on an external broadcast monitor and only mess about with the images that require it.
    In the psycho business they have term for much of the referenced post - it's called superstitious behavior. Basically it comes down to "It worked before so we recommend it to everyone without regard to their situation" ... here's another example:
    Many years ago in my architecture practice, we had one of the early 512k macs (upgraded from the 128k!) I needed to show one of the interns how to create a project budget spread sheet in Excel. Inadvertently I clicked on Word, said "oops", closed it and opened Excel and we went to work.
    A week later I was walking by the computer and overheard the same intern explaining how to work with Excel to another architect. "First you open Word, close it, THEN you open Excel", she explained. When asked by her 'trainee', why do you have to open Word first, wouldn't it just be easier to simply open Excel? Her answer was just perfect, "Well, it works every time, what's wrong with that?" so it goes ...
    good luck with your project.

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