Straight ahead

When animating straight ahead, the animator draws one frame of the animation after another in order. Because the motion evolves chronologically, without big jumps around the timeline, it’s easier to feel its flow.

The resulting animations can feel very smooth, but due to the lack of planning the poses might not be as strong and or on model as they would be when using a pose to poseWhen animating pose to pose, the animator defines the most important poses first (e.g. key poses), then the second most ... More animation approach.