Noob needs help  
       
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      Topic: Noob needs help
       
      Posted By: Chappie
       Subject: Noob needs help
       Date Posted: 10 October 2012 at 6:43pm
       
      
        
          
	
Sup guys. Feel free to tell me if this is the wrong place for this, I'm not sure. 
 Anyway, I've taking up making vintage style 2d video games as a hobby and I wanted to make a spinning DNA strand for the start menu of my latest work. I've never tried to do this before and it's really confused me. I didn't really know what I was doing to start with, so I just made the basic template I want to go with. Anyone mind giving me a little guidance? how do I make this spin? do I just draw out each individual frame and put them together as a gif? and if so, how do I even go about that? how do I make the parts of the individual frames line up? 
 Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
 
 Here's the template pic
 http://imgur.com/hjXcF
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      Posted By: DawnBringer
       
      Date Posted: 12 October 2012 at 2:05am
       
      
        
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You don't wanna draw that. Just program it, either draw it in realtime or pre-render it. It just takes some x-coords of a circular motion.
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