Unless, I'm missing something, use the type tool to create the word "Scientist". Now create a mask path that animates from a round like to a straight line. Twirl open the type tool, and set the path to that mask.
Johnny Cuevas, Editor
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"I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work."
---THOMAS EDISON on inventing the light bulb.