I cant quite get this mining animation right and I dont know how to fix it

Miner_Mining2


It is nearly perfect but not quite.


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There’s no power to the pickaxe “swing”, it seems more like the character is handing the pickaxe to someone rather than mining. “Put your back into it” as they say - they should lean back, and swing down and forward with it, either overhead or sideways (however you prefer; sideways is more realistic in most situations, but overhead has a clearer silhouette).

You also have no recovery phase in the motion, the character moves the pickaxe and… nothing. There’s no feedback from having hit anything, and no follow-through from not having hit anything.

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Thanks for telling me. That would also probably make it look more fluid and realistic.