Stow 'n Sell - help with animations

[xkkmEl]

I am working on a new mod, Stow 'n Sell, and I need suggestions on animations to include. I know NOTHING about animations, where to find them, how to preview them or anything.

 

The mod is about adding a storage container to the player's inventory, where the player can transfer items he intends to sell, and adding dialogue to merchants to trigger selling the content of the storage. As of today, I think I have the following done:

• Calculating the base value of all items, including custom-enchanted, up to a rounding error
• Calculating the sell price of all items, up to another rounding error
• Distinguishing stolen items
• Comparing items to the merchant buysell list
• Computing merchant's available gold
• Training the speechcraft skill according to the value of sold items

All this processing takes time (1-15s), time during which the merchant just stands still, often with mouth agape or eyes misfocused. I want to fill this time with appropriate animations. The mod will work with any merchant, so the animations can't assume too much about the merchant's posture or his surroundings.

 

Given my current mastery of skyrim animations, I don't even know where to start looking for potential animations to use; I won't try to make them myself, though I would consider a partnership with another modder interested in creating animations.

 

Can anyone help?

 

PS: For completeness, the mod also includes an "automated stowing" feature, with a MCM that has a couple dozen options to control which items get automatically stowed, and a capacity to learn by watching the user manually move items to storage (and back). Quest items, equipped items and favorited items are all recognized and excluded from automatic stowing. My aim is to reduce the tedium, without affecting the balance of the game.

 

[xkkmEl]

If anyone is curious, I published a beta version of the mod: Stow 'n Sell.