well it all depends on the person, but nothing is really that hard on alice, as long as you understand what everything does, you can pretty much do anything on it, and animations tend to be harder for people since you have to implement a method on how you want to move your chraracter to make it look just right, and yes I agree with you jedi that using a number variable is usually the easiest way to make a good looking animation
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