First there is a simple, but not beautiful solution: Draw (in you graphics program, not in LÖVE) the player with different angles for the stick and then compose the animation from these images. That way you only have one image, which is the player together with the stick and this is rotated around ...

I'm making a little hockey game, and I'm having trouble making the stick rotate as illustrated in the picture. owZvrdb.png where the stick rotates from the same point in the skaters hand regardless of the skater's rotation, but I'm not really sure where to start. If possible, I'd also like to keep t...