Hey @sambear good stuff man.
If you find yourself losing steam, then break it into smaller tasks.
For example, “Today I’m only going to work on the body from the start to frame X” and then your next session “Today I’m only going to work on the body from X to the end”. Then do the same thing with the tail.
Break it into as many chunks as make sense to you. And try to work on the chunk that needs the most work first.
As more the animation, here’s just a couple more thoughts.
-The tail is way too slow in some spots. It’s hard because the tail switches from being fully active to fully passive. The easiest way to think about this is, if it feels like it’s reacting like it’s under water – it’s needs to be active (get it to where you want it faster.)
But when he is moving fast, it will mostly be fully passive and follow where it came from on the last frame.
(hope that makes sense)
With the part where he gets startled – you could try ‘staggering’ the spacing like how a cartoon cat gets startled.
It will pop up and then jitter, before coming down and running off super fast.
But it’s going really good so far Sambear. Keep going!
