[thrush]

Really silly request, but could someone provide an implementation where I can just drop in an svg and it would have this effect? Please, and thank you.

[boomskats]

Have a look at lazy line painter

http://lazylinepainter.info/

[thrush]

Gotcha. The next step is making an animatable SVG. I'm trying to follow https://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html