He's got dem gorilla arms man. Maybe he's trying to imitate DK? :v

The Guards seem "lifeless" to you possibly because they are short animations. 8 and 16 frames. Not much you can do with that short of time.

 Leg sliding isn't really happening in those gifs... it's the angle it was taken, but they are stepping off the ground LL.

 As for the side smash one, I copied the upper body to a tee... I spent a good 2 or more hours on trying to get that as close to what it looked like in Smash U as I could. So... yeah... Same with the Blazer one. But that one was made from scratch. The shaking you see isn't the HipN, but the Bust and possibly Waist bones. I might go back and take a look at it... but right now, I'm satisfied with what I have.

Not Lucina related... but Smash U related. I did a thing regardless. Here's a gif.

Edit: Just finished off his Blazer as well. Thought I might as well do it too, since I've been wanting to. Have a gif.

Also did his Guard animations... On and Off.

GuardOff:

GuardOn:

You really need to do better on constructive criticism.

Anyway. I like the new look of the side smash. It's a bit off... like the head being angled too low, the right legs rotation is turned too far right. And her sword arm being bent and her sword landing through the ground. Other than that. It looks good.

Oooooohhh... Well cool.

I don't know what I'm supposed to be seeing in this. But it looks nice.

I "can" keep it? Oh thank you mas'a... I appreciate your generosity mas'a. :v

I know it is... But I think it looks good. Smash 4 has a lot of wacky/flashy animations this time around.

Or an actual sword. :v

Could go do that right now. Joking aside, I know it's unrealistic. But if I were to add more key frames and do a whole getting up animation at the end... it would just take up space and be unnecessarily long. So I'll stick with this one.

^ It's a video game... and a cartoony one at that. Not everything needs to be super realistic with the movements.

But I did do that... the extra frames thing. I added an extra 12 frames for it too. ;-;

Dead face is dead. It haunts my dreams. ;-;

Funny that you post that... I made my own as well. The ending needs to be lengthened but I got the final strikes pose down... well minus the leg... forgot about that.

Gotta still show you up. :v

Edit: Updated the animation to more closely match the Smash U version.

The Mercenary outfit from FE Awakening.

Janky this... janky that... You know what else is janky? Your vocabulary. v:

Seriously though... there are other words Mr. King of Meme.

Got two more to show. I just revised Roy's Smash U wait and did his Wait2.

Wait1

Wait2

I'm totally showing up Kitsu. Hehehe~