Making Samuri Sword Shine ?

anyone have a tutorial or something on how to make something like a sword shine from the handle all the way to the tip of the sword from a left to right motion ???????

please help

 

www.good-tutorials.com there will be some shine effect tuts there, then just apply it to a sword.

 

thanks so much man u helped me out a lot this place has every tutorial i will almost ever need.

awsome man !!!!!!!

 

found the tutorial on how to animate shine after 3 pages of searching thanks again for the help