Reply To: GIF(t) Challenge Part 1 (Christmas)

With an extrude of 0.02 under geometry of the curve settings. Converted to a mesh. Straighten the UV’s and used an empty to drive the x location of the mapping node of the shader.

You could save yourself some work next time; Curves already have UV’s:

The only thing you probably need to do, is ‘un-stretch’ the Curve:

Curve to Mesh, LoopTools > Space, Mesh to Curve.

I didn’t use Extrude, but Bevel on the Curve to get line thickness.