Character animation crash course

ATTITUDE POSES
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Moving Holds
Lots of animators use this technique to make a pose read, but still give the character
so me life. The majority of the character can be traced back or on a held eel, with
one or two moving bits (eyes, ears, whiskers, or some sort of secondary foot or
hand movement). Another moving hold technique is to have the character cushion
in slowly to your storytelling pose for what would be the duration of the proposed
hold. (For example, if your character is meant t9 be held for 24 frames, draw one
key slightly less progressed to the final pose, and do tight inbetweens that cushion
in to the last key over the 24-frame length.) Computer animation makes even more
frequent use of moving holds, since the common experience has been that having a
CG character in a frozen hold makes it look like a very dead plastic model.