Fun times tonight starting the animation. I'm still in the process of setting up the key frames, but it's coming along well so far. Here's some of them with some lighting effects to show off some of what I have so far. I'll have to continue this when I have time.

Mannequin model by P2design. Sword by me.

Well today was productive! I wasn't able to be on for as long as I normally like, but still got a few good animating hours in.
The idea is come'n together more and more! The first video shows the key frames. Basically the main poses that make up the animation. The next 3 videos show a lot of cleaning up and adding detailed frames and inbetweens to help it look smooth. There is a front view, a side view, and an action camera view!
Still have a fair bit to clean up. The back arm, the belly and a few other odds and ends need to be animated to help sell this. It blows my mind sometimes that I'm able to put things like this together. I'm sure someday I'll be able to admit to myself that I may be good at these sorts of things.