Graphics Problem regarding changing sizes

DreamLab

I have an animation where when my character sees the enemy, he hits it with a hammer. Only when I play the animation, the hammer doesn't extend out, it changes its size to fit the first image. How can I change this? When I made the images(png's) with a transparent bg, they shrink to how big the visible picture is so there is no point in making all of the pics the same size. PLEASE HELP!!!!! thanks
DL

tenrdrmer

No you need to make the actor the size of your largest image and then make all the other images the same with the transparent background. you can try changing the actor size for just the animation part but that may look wierd

DreamLab

In illustrator, when I save the image (with a transparent bg) it changes the size to whatever size the visible image is.

tenrdrmer

There is probably a setting to change for that. Try using gimp. its free and will do this task fine