Tradigital Maya

CHAPTER 8

Straight Ahead Action and Pose to Pose

There are two main approaches to animation.

The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation – Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston

“Straight ahead” and “pose to pose” are considered as distinct, different approaches to animation. With pose-to-pose animation, the animator will block in the key poses for the animation prior to working on the animation refinement. In traditional cell animation, a key animator would typically work on the key poses, while an “in-betweener” would work on the poses in-between the main poses.

In computer animation, the computer interpolates between motions through the motion curves or ...