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New animation's finally out! This time a bit of a continuation of my last animation. I used Blender's NLA editor on this one to block out the two different stages, and then used its auto-blending feature to transition between them which I gotta say works REALLY well, lol.

The only issue with doing it this way is that if I need to go in and fix the animation, there's no way to easily do it while it's a strip in the NLA editor. You can tweak actions, but there seems to be a bug when an action is an NLA strip and the strip isn't at the very start of the timeline where you try to select the keyframes and it won't select the right ones.

So, the only way to fix it is to delete the NLA strips, go back and tweak the original actions, and then push them back down to the NLA editor.

Bit of a pain but I think eventually I'll get the hang of it -- because having these large single animations with hundreds of keyframes just isn't feasible, lol.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the animation. :D And thanks for reading!