I’ve been deep into learning the animations also. I like the quirky handmade animations though. As long as all animations in the game are like that, and match. It gives it that stop motion Gumby like feel. If you have all smooth animations, and 1 or 2 that’s clicky. then it gets noticed right away. I think couch knights has some good swinging shield animations, but retargeting can be tedious. Don’t feel bad. I’ve redone my character 3-4 times, and this last time. was a struggle. Nothing seemed to work, skin weights, uv’s overlapping. small bone errors. physics going nuts, forgetting to assign materials. etc. I spent about 6 hours painting every single vertex, and accidentally hit close key, and save without closing on my modelling program. Luckily I have autosave set at every 30 minutes, but then I have to figure out where I was at 30 minutes ago. Now I need to retarget everything.