MASKING QUERY

Hi There

I’ve got a bit of a newbie problem. I’m using Animate 3 and am trying to mask part of my scene. I want a square in the middle to mask out anything outside of the square and keep a black boarder around it. I can get it to mask out what is inside of the square but I can’t seem to invert it. It also gets rid of the black outline of my square.

My aim is to change the size and shape of the boarder of the scene several times during my animation. I got the idea from an animation i found on Vimeo.
I’ve attached a still from the animation “Helf” that has the same effect. Hopefully you get what I want.

YOUR HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED :slight_smile:

Cheers

Josh

I kind of fixed it using shapes but am still unsure about masking.