Someone is happy.
This was a test to see if animation was possible. Considering I did this in about an hour, which includes posing AND rendering, I'd say its pretty possible.
Getting it into a GIF was a bit of a trick. Octane will output the image frames, not a fully stitched together animation. I had to walk through a Photoshop tutorial to get the frames together into a GIF. Thankfully that wasn't too bad.
Next I will be testing larger image sizes and better quality settings.
EDIT: Added a much bigger version :)
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