Pokémon Model Ripping Project

[TehSe7en]

Just a curiosity question here (because I have zero idea how the whole ripping process works):

Everyone has been quick to rip the models and textures for both Let's Go and Sword & Shield (which is awesome), but why has it been so difficult to rip animations? I mean, sure for Let's Go all you had to do was pull the anims from Sun & Moon since Let's Go used the same models (and the same can be done with a huge chunk of Sword & Shield's Pokemon too), but Pokemon like Meltan and Melmetal as well as the Gen VIII Pokemon in Sword & Shield are sort of out of luck on that front. Are the files just in a different spot than they'd usually be for other games? Obviously they'd be in a different format just like the models were so is there just not a tool yet to extract the animation files?

Again, this isn't any kind of criticism since I know a LOT of hard work has been put out to have the database of ripped files we currently have right now; Merely a curiosity question

Because while a single model is stored in a file, multiple animations on the other hand are stored in a single file, that and people usually only care about the models, for whatever reason

You wouldn't happen to have these files would you? Or if you know someone who does? If the 3DS Max plugin would work for extracting those as well, I'd be more than happy to use my time to extract animations

No plugins can open pokemon animations from the switch games, but switch toolbox's dev is working on it, switch files are completely different from 3ds ones