I tried the puppet pin tool. Did not end well, because each leg would distort the one next to it when I made movements.

Then, Duik. The thing is Duik would work well if I had a lot of time to put into it WHICH I DONT so, I will make a plan for my animation, make slight movements or head turns with puppet pins, animate the rest, have it done. Then if there is a tiny chance I can fit more time into it (highly unlikely) I’ll reattempt it. Otherwise I’ll just keep it for another brief.

The problem here was the bottom pins on the one leg’s rigging was wrong. I couldn’t go back to undoing the auto rig, and making the friggin skeleton took me all morning (I’m a first timer all right) so . yeah… it WOULDVE LOOKED NICE