R15 characters look like they’re clunkily lumbering around, to the point even the awkward robot-like R6 animations are preferable in some cases. Of course, this is fine at the moment because to my understanding the current animations are placeholders, and I recall a staff member saying they wanted to go as far as getting a professional to design R15 animations or something like that, but I’m wondering how far off that is.
Back when R15 was first enabled on the site, permanent animations were blocked by:
Non-finalized proportions
I believe these are finalized now, so they shouldn’t be a blocker anymore
Lack of R15 packages
R15 packages are finalized and we know for certain what will be animated. There’s still some adjusting to do for attachment points, but animations should not be affected by that at this point.
Accessories
While not related to R15, I believe the same team worked on this update, but now it’s finished and out of the way.
With all of these out of the way, how far off are finalized R15 animations? Maybe there’s more stuff to work on with R15, and of course any sort of work has to wait until the code freeze is lifted, but I can’t imagine it’s that far off.