Emma Swan, Sword Swinger

Not sure if I've mentioned this too many times already, but I recently made the step from student animator to working freelance animator. While I love animation, sometimes doing it for work sucks the fun out of it, so I thought I'd do a quick little looping thing for fun and upload it here. Emma's fingers slide a bit, but I like how the thumb and the hand flick turned out. Let me know what you think.

Hand-drawn animation in Toon Boom Studio
Background & effects in After Effects
Crappy GIF conversion in Photoshop. Seriously, it's 2015. GIFs should look less pixelly than this by now.