Pose to pose is a term used in animation, for creating key poses for characters and then

inbetweening Inbetweening, also known as tweening, is a process in animation that involves creating intermediate frames, called inbetweens, between two keyframes. The intended result is to create the illusion of movement by smoothly transitioning one image in ...

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 Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation in cinema until computer animation. Proc ...

as well as computer-based 3D animation. The opposite concept is

straight ahead animation Straight ahead is a term used in animation that refers to a method that uses only the first key pose of a character, and then continues drawing the character to create the desired motion. It was first referred to in the 1981 book by Ollie Johnson a ...

, where the poses of a scene are not planned, which results in more loose and free animation, though with less control over the animation's timing.

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