How to wiggle a branch (Patreon)

Hi!!!! So I showed you a long branch a while ago, and here it is again. The branch is very long because it extends through several interconnected shots. Anyway here is me talking about how I made the branch wiggly in a really indirect way, as a workaround to get out of animating some stuff.

It sounds less thrilling when I say it out loud! But I thought it was a good example of how "animating" often consists of finding convoluted ways to avoid animating (at least for me anyway!)

And if you don't care about how to make a branch wiggly, you can skip to 2:22 to see a little snippet of finished product!