Let's keep this discussion civil guys, you either agree or you don't, you state you opinion, explain why, and that's it. There's no need for name calling, hateful memes or insulting remarks. And it's better to ignore the ignorant.

As for the ones who stated their opinions, whether you agreed or disagreed: thanks for taking interest in my discussion. I know now that some of us liked the animation, and others didn't. It's a matter of taste in the end I guess.

(And for the ones who said that the picture I posted is sped up, yeah, I'm not expert on turning videos into Gifs, I just recorded the "middle/delay animation" and turned it into a gif to give you guys the general idea of the body movement, i apologize if it turned out to be a bit sped up, it wasn't intentional, nor was aimed to make the animation look worse)

The animation looks great in general, specially the start. It's the middle that needs to be fixed a bit in my opinion. There's no need to move his hips this way in a dance-like move. Saying that "it's done this way to make it like he's conjuring magic" is a valid point, but there are better ways to do it: hand movements, shoulders movements, stepping or half-stepping forward or backward.. I can see tons of ways for magic to be conjured, but for hips to be involved like that, it's not the ideal way. We've seen this kind of wavy-movement in a number of games; making snake-like weird movements while casting spells, and it didn't really give a feel of being "the epic mage who burned/froze/electrocuted the enemy"

Some of you might wonder and ask "Why do you keep focusing on the body movement? Why the hips? Just look at the whole animation in general and that's it." and you have a point, but the reason I keep saying "hips" because it's the most noticeable thing in this animation, I showed the animation to a few friends who are all RPG gamers (more into offline RPGs than online, not ffxiv players) without saying anything, honestly, just said "What do you think?" and they all noticed it and hinted at the hips movements before anything else: "Why is he dancing like that?"