wow that worked out quite nicely, the neon paintbrush was just wat i needed too =)

only thing is you lost me on the animation part, im pretty new to maya and dind't understand what you meant by "key the MIN and MAX CLIP attributes in your stroke to animate the.."
i mean i can do like a basic animation of a sphere moving across a plane using key frames, but ya lost me.. do you think you could explain that a bit more pleaSE?