A skip!

So, I was talking to one of the animation professors about doing a skip cycle, and I realized that I had never tried animating a skip before.  So, we consulted the Preston Blair animation book - and lo and behold, the brilliant man has a skip.  And not just any skip - it's a merrily skipping squirrel holding a basket on a 24 frame cycle.

It took me 5 hours to just get down the lower body, even when I referenced the book.  This is harder than it looks.