How I like to Pose out Characters for my Animation (Cutout animation in toonboom)

I recomend wacthing this video at 1.25 speed
00:00 - 00:37 intro
00:37 - 01:30 line of action and negative space
01:44 - 02:48 first pass
02:50 - 8:55 first drawover
11:43 - 20:22 2nd drawover
You asked for a longer video and you got it! lol I wanted to go through my entire process of taking a rig and posing it out. I try and spend at least 80% of my time posing out shots and laying in a solid foundation to make the animation process go as smooth as possible.

I look at things like line of action and negative space. Usually on a production, there are storyboards that you have to interpret so you will always start with some sort of reference.

I am working with a more complex deforemer rig so the process is alittle different than traditionally animating or working with simple rigs, but the main idea is still the same. Hope you enjoy the video.