moving hold/breathing

Jewels of knowledge dripping from Jason Ryan's keyboard on the 11sec club.

Milking a pose....yep that's the moving hold. It's no surprise that this is the hardest thing to do because in CGm, it can either look dead
or under water drifty. The first thing I do when I find the "Golden Pose" is think breathing, everyone has to breath and the character's emotion state has to affect this in some way. Breathing will help to keep the character focused and will give it the life it needs without
making it drift all over the place....Glen is a king at this, just look at those shots in Tarzan, where he's looking at Jane for the first time.
The power of just a little head tilt or a slight squint of the eyes in a moving hold can say so much.

The pose to pose look is really all about following through, anytime you hit a pose is like your character hits an invisible wall and that always looks odd in cg so you have to follow through after a move and then settle gracefully into a "breathing" pose.