Key poses are the “key” moments that most clearly describe the important physical actions or emotional moments in a scene. These are basically your most important poses — in fact, these are so essential to the movement/acting that if you removed any one of them from the scene, it would no longer work.
For me, I use a LOT of key poses. I find it helpful to be very detailed with my key poses. In a full-figure animation, a key, for me, will be any moment something important changes. It could be that the character is going to take a step to the right, so he has to shift his weight to the left first. Even though it isn’t a “big” action, I will think of the weight shifting to the left as a “key pose” or an “extreme,” which are both terms that are often used to describe the same exact thing, depending on who you are talking to.





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