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Originally Posted by Zero Hour

Very little contrast (colors) so there's a lot of lost detail. You don't really use lighting where it could be used. And, finally, I should beat you down for animating the pendulum like that.

Nice design, you could make it better though

Contrast between what parts? I haven't started detailing it yet. No real shading or lighting on the main bits... Just a bit on the pendulum weight to try and make it look like metal.

I know the animation isn't good... That's why I asked for suggestions on how to improve it.

Originally Posted by Zero Hour

Nice design, you could make it better though

Thanks. I was thinking of making one of those big rectangular ones at first, but I liked the idea of a pitched top a bit more... I might try to add some spirally stuff or something on the outside leg bits. What do you think?

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

its nice, but pendulums don't move like that, i would suggect rotating the pendulum part, and making sure it all seems to come from the same point

Originally Posted by Warcaptain

pendulums dont move like that

Yeah, I know it doesn't look right... But when I tried to redraw it at an angle it just looked offensive to the eye. I thought I mentioned that.

Originally Posted by Tom

He has'nt done that yet, and even moving it two pixels to each side would work, and to get rid of jaggedy lines, you use anti-alias techinqus on the lines, and on the inside of the lines.
Also outside of the lines.

It smooths it off alot

I might try anti-aliasing... I'm usually bad at it though. I can never pick the right shades for the transitions.

I wonder if shrinking the width of the pendulum by 1 pixel would help at all... hrm.

Originally Posted by Draenin

Needs tranparency.

There is transparency... If you're talking about the blackness on the top one, you have to click on it. That's a thumbnail to the 700% zoomed one. The forums give a black backround on the thumbnail for some reason.