I saw that you fixed some jerky animations in this build but I also noticed some other bugs/weirdness since the beginning of the stretch animation system.
1) When you are in defense trying to move back to the middle slowly after a retrieval and your opponent tries to wrong foot you, you switch the arrow key to start running to the right direction. The player would run just fine at first but stop all of a sudden and start triggering the stretch animations... So you end up not reaching the ball. I think that can be fixed. Watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh4lIBx3bAM&ab_channel=JiJo at 59:47. I know you prolly want a bug report but most of these recordings are outdated with the recent update but I'm fairly sure the issue is present on v0.57 so I can try sending one whenever it happens again.
2) The head movement feels kinda weird to me... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCI1mYeDUY&ab_channel=djokorer Watch this girl in white starting 1:24.
Nice blog post by the way. I hope you are doing well in general.
