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Moving within a held pose

Moving within a held pose - Maya Tutorial

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Moving within a held pose

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- So now, I've got this character in his anticipated pose. Now, I want to hold this pose for just a bit so that it reads, and also to give the character some time to do a little bit more business. So, first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to decide how long this is going to be. Why don't I just hold this for about half a second? So, that's going to be from 182, which is the last one, to 194. So, what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of rotate this character back a little bit more, so he's kind of getting a little bit more energy. Going to go ahead and lift that arm a little bit more, maybe tilt this head a little bit more. So, as he's kind of coming into this, he's kind of starting to lean back. In fact, we could probably also move this arm here. So he's again kind of coiling up his energy, so to speak. And then, also bring those hips down just a little bit. So now, as he comes into this pose, he's kind of holding that pose, but it's also kind of a moving hold, so that way…

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