Unity Animator Default Layer State Freezes on First Frame

Question

I animated a knife being drawn and an Idle state, however no matter what I do they will not animate in game. It instead freezes on the first frame. Thi is what the animator window looks like when it is running:

The Animation:

And in the inspector:

Answer 1

I was having a similar problem and it came down to the transitions in the animation controller having "Can Transition to Self" checked, and unchecking it allowed the animation to run.