Hiya all! This prop was largely an experiment to push myself to work on my animation skills, as well as do some material painting that I hadn't necessarily worked on before!
I definitely learned a lot working on this. For instance, I didn't know how the different mesh densities for would look when animated so I tried to play it safe, and ended up with multiple texture sets when one probably would have sufficed. Even so, I feel like I'm building on lots of the skills I've been working on throughout the past few months, and am so excited to finish up the projects I have in the works with everything I've learned in mind! I'd love to do more work on this some day -- I got great feedback from my mentors on this that I want to implement, and take forward into projects later on!

Many thanks for viewing, have a great day!