So fun fact. The rocking arms I was using in the previous pics are actually bows from a crossbow enlarged and repurposed. They look good, but even if it’s invisable the hand guard at the front is still there. So when Kelsey tries to let dad animate it rocking smoothly back and forth it works… for the first ten frames, then rises up suddenly into the air like it’s possessed before tilting forward in a impersonation of a roller coaster.
Doing some digging I found an actual rocking horse I was able to convert and turn into a new base, one I think looks a bit better than the last and ani area much more smoothly.