soccer animation using java2D

Hi all,

I am developing a soccer game for fun. I've already done a simple animation, with squares instead of players and a green screen with white lines as the field. Althouth this simplicity. The only technique I've used is double-buffering. The system runs a bit slow.

I don't have many experience in java graphics. Which advice could you give me to get a good animation?

I'm still trying to find how I am going to get the players to have a transparent background. I mean, if I draw a picture with the player, it is going to be a rectangle, but I would like to draw only the shape of the players.

Any suggestion?

[656 byte] By [wilmort] at [2007-9-26 7:05:10]