Straight Ahead Pose Mastery

This breaks down the two fundamental animation workflows and when to use each. Straight ahead is frame-by-frame improvisation that gives you organic chaos, great for fire and creature tails. Pose to pose is architectural planning with key poses first, better for dialogue and choreography. The real insight is the hybrid approach: block your structure pose to pose, then go straight ahead on secondary motion and effects. It covers UI transitions, character work, and procedural systems with specific scenarios for each method. Honest take: if your animations feel either too stiff or too chaotic, you're probably using the wrong workflow for that element.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add dylantarre/animation-principles --skill straight-ahead-pose-mastery --agent claude-code