# Playing and repeating animations on a gameobject
**URL:** https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354
**Category:** Phaser 3
**Created:** [September 25, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354 "2022-09-25T12:05:01Z")
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### Author:  [@NRJ](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/NRJ)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 12:05pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354/1 "2022-09-25T12:05:02Z")
I want to play two different types of animations on my game “Crow” character such as “crowIdle” and “crowCaw”.
First play “crowIdle” animation and repeat it 3 to 7 times(ie randomize the repeating) , after that play “crowCaw” animation once, this whole cycle continues…
can anyone know how to do this…
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### Author:  [@BlunT76](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/BlunT76)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 5:12am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354/2 "2022-09-27T05:12:18Z")
Hi,
Here’s an example of how you can achieve it.
First, in your animation, put repeat to 0 (no repeat).
In your crow class constructor:
```javascript
this.animCount = 0;
this.randomCount = 5 (you must randomize this one)
this.on('animationcomplete', () => {
const currentAnim = this.anims.getName();
if (currentAnim === 'crowIdle' && animCount < randomCount)
{
this.animCount += 1;
this.anims.play('crowIdle')
}
else
{
this.animCount = 0;
this.randomCount = 5; // randomize a new number here
this.anims.play('crowCaw')
}
})
```
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### Author:  [@NRJ](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/NRJ)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354/3 "2022-09-27T12:19:42Z")
Thanks for the reply, with some slight adjustment in your code by adding an “else if” this works perfectly.
```javascript
this.animCount = 0;
this.randomCount = Phaser.Math.Between(3,7);
this.on('animationcomplete', () => {
const currentAnim = this.anims.getName();
if (currentAnim === 'crowIdle' && this.animCount < this.randomCount)
{
this.animCount += 1;
this.anims.play('crowIdle');
}
else if(currentAnim === 'crowCaw')
{
this.animCount = 0;
this.randomCount = Phaser.Math.Between(3,7);
this.anims.play('crowIdle');
}
else
{
this.anims.play('crowCaw');
}
})
```
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### Author:  [@BlunT76](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/BlunT76)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/playing-and-repeating-animations-on-a-gameobject/12354/4 "2022-09-27T16:05:07Z")
Exact, i forgot the end, but you got the idea 👍