Animating Different Directions

I was wondering what you do in your animations when an arm is going right to left instead of up and down?

Right now, I'm trying to animate an arm for an up walk but it's moving left to right for a left walk.

What are some techniques I can apply to fix this?

Thank you for the help!

zub You can refer to the 8-direction character Spine project, which can be downloaded from the Twitch stream archive page, to achieve this: https://esotericsoftware.com/spine-twitch#video-FPaqO0Xlh4w

The skeleton included in the project has animations for different directions using the same bones:

You can see the entire process of creating this skeleton in the archived videos of the Twitch stream.