From the course: Character Animation: Dialogue
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Blocking the body poses
At this point, you've taken the time to listen to the dialogue track a few times. You've kind of absorbed the intent of the character. And you've got a sense for how you want your character to act. Now you could've thumbnailed this out, or just kind of had a sense in your head as to what's working. So, I've gone ahead and thumbnailed this out a little bit. And so what I want my character to do is to just lift his arms as he stutters. And then go down into a big anticipation. And then come up when he say's the word explode and kind of animate that a little bit more broadly. So, with that in mind, let's go ahead and do a couple of poses just to show you some of the process. So, the first thing I want to do is just get my initial pose. What is my character doing when the camera hits him? So, let's just go ahead and get a basic, relaxed pose here. So I'm just going to maybe turn his foot out. We're going to put the weight here on his left foot. So I'm going to move his hips back a little…
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