I blended the walking and jump animation for the turret.

Made the turret wind up and turn 90 degrees in a jump.

Finished animating the turret jumping using weighted tangents and broken tangents.

Constraining the UFO to a curve.

Parenting & keying the UFO to the platform.

Used timeline keyframes for this first animation.

 

Graph editor and infinity cycle to make the turret idle animation.

 

Motion trail was broken so i had to use the graph editor.

Maya playblast editor

I made the turret aim at three different targets for the assignment.

Fixed vs Broken Topology