As long as the pokemon look good in battles thats enough for me...and that might be an issue with the pokemon3d engine...
Regarding the animations...if nillz implements it, ill learn on how To do them and work on it...there's one thing thats easy to do tho, i can change the texture eyes of a pokemon depending on their condition , (Sleeping, confused, paralyzed,
etc) its just a a matter of texture coordinates, every poke has a set of eyes in their texture for each of this condition, i just dont know if thats makes part of animations or if theres another way to do it.