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Pose-to-pose animation

Animation terminology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5695953 ↗
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Pose to pose is a term used in animation for creating key poses for characters and then inbetweening them in intermediate frames to make the character appear to move from one pose to the next. Pose-to-pose is used in traditional animation as well as computer-based 3D animation. The opposite concept is straight-ahead animation, where the poses of a scene are not planned, which results in more loose and free animation, though with less control over its timing.

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“Pose-to-pose animation” enters the record as animation terminology. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pose-to-pose, animation and Animation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pose-to-pose animation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.