Now I'm just going to animate him slowly pulling the bar out of his head. I made copy of just his hand gripping the bar and made a new layer of that, I'm going to be sliding that back and forth along the bar as he pulls it out. Then I'm going to animate the bar sliding out of his head. Simple stuff.

This is what I did, just a LOT of layers and repetative layers.

Now getting him to pull it out of his head. Let me see what it looks like if I combine the two animations:

Not bad looking... I'm going to make him grimace and clench his hanging fist right before he pulls it out.

Since I'm getting kinda tired, I'm just going to combine the two animations. The slower pulling out and the motion blur.

And that's the image. I could go in and add some blood spray when he yanks it out but it's good enough for now.