and my drawing skills are pretty much based on swords... even though if i posted a few alot of people would not like them... just because they've seen better... but i say... it's harder than you think drawing a sword from scratch... all of my swords i have drawn from scratch... i'll post them.... some of them need alot of work though...
try doing a pivot animation with the pivot program, you can make a lot of shapes
I have used Pivot animators, they are cool and easier to use than Flash but provide a less dynamic array of options to choose from. Now that you have gone to the right place for help, the Programming Forum, consider this thread useless and invalid. Come on mods, lock this now!