Thanks Edward,

you know it never even crossed my mind to have the rake fall over after the hit. I guess that I was so focused on getting the walk and hit right that some of the smaller detail skipped by me.

Nice thought about the wooden props too, I did something similar in an old design for my site (that never got off the ground!!). The Thinker model in the image was the link to the 3D modelling gallery, I couldn't be bothered to model him properly so I just used the cut out method.

As I just used alpha maps to make the trees in Lenny look like cut outs it may look a little odd to have them propped up as there is no depth to them. I like this style so next time that I use it I might try out the same method as I used for the Thinker and spend a little more time actually modelling the cut out so that it has depth.

Cheers for your thoughts,

Mat.