Use the AnimationPlayer node for picking up items. You should be able to use it to position your character where needed (relative to the item) and temporarily switch to a camera where you can better see what is getting picked up before switching back to your main camera. (you can trigger functions in the animation player)
For the different pickup and walking animations, you can keep track of these with a state variable in your player script. When you pick up the item, change the state in your player script to match:
if state == "carryPot": #run carryPot anim
elif state == "carryBucket": #run carryBucket anim
else: #run standard walk anim
For the log Animation, use a Raycast from your player to detect the log.
add the log to a group, "log", and then in your player script, if Raycast is colliding with an object in the log group (you should be able to find the exact function to use in the documentation, it think it's raycast.getCollider().isInGroup() or something like that...) , change the state to something like "walkingOnLog" and adjust the animation accordingly like I mentioned above.
Hope this helps. Good luck on your project.
