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Chris, I haven't seen a solution for the end faces showing on an animated opacity map. I tried deleting the end cap faces with some success. Other than that you could do a video post trick, where you render a still image without the offending object (or a sequence of images, if there is camera motion). Then render your full scene with the writing. Composite them in video post with the scene with writing first, then the scene without second using an rgb mask to just cover the offending portion of the image. The rgb mask would be created in animator pro and would simply be a black screen with a portion of it white where the second image is to mask the first. The timeline for the second would go from the first frame until the point where the writing is almost completely drawn.