Lethal2: Animation was good for beginner standard, but a whole lot needs to be worked on, and an advisory is to colour the whole stick their HEX colour, other than just the inner head, it will look a lot cleaner and better allover.
Pickup: Overall animation was smoother, easier to follow, and overall, more well pulled off. However, the effects were repetitive and as for the zooming scenes (including the dagger wires), use 3-4 frames, it often looks better than using 2.
My vote goes to Pickup. Nice job.