After 2 more weeks of working on this animation I have completely re-done the beginning which wasn't shown on the sketch video I uploaded (because it was too embarrassing to show) but is looking a lot better and can see clear signs of improvement which is always good, so keeping things new and putting ideas out there and trying them out has been a lot of fun.

Also Happy New Year!

Gonna make 2024 count!

And here's some screenshots of progress