the lifting, to the arms while he stands. a combination of the both maybe.
i'm curious, how many frames/how much time-loop do you have to work with on the standing still animation. is it possible that we could have cloud doing something, stretching after a certain amount of time. like in a lot of newer games if you let your characters stand they tend to do whatever they please in a sense. ( just an example) the only real concern with this if it can be done, is if it will interrupt the long speech sections where all characters stand while speech bubbles go wild.
looks good man. i can't imagine how 