Rather than spline out my shot this week, I concentrated on adding loads of keys and inbetweens to really nail down what’s happening. That’s the first version! Since there is so much data now, I thought I’d literally just hit the ‘spline’ button on all the curves and see what happens! That’s the second version. I think it’s working OK, despite a few instances of gimbal and a dodgy FK/IK switch that I’ll sort out next week.
Thanks to Karl for the suggestion to raise Stewie up at the end to really emphasise the exhaustive collapse. Great idea!