Week 3 - Session 2 - Pose to pose example

Link source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNbd7-B2OTc
 This is an example of pose to pose animation, in the blocking phase. Pose to pose is a work flow method which means that you basically choose some key poses and then you put them in the right timing on the timeline. After you have done that means that you have the blocking (first phase of the animation, with no in-betweens, just the main poses).
This video shows a successful blocking, maybe a more advanced one with more breakdowns added. The main target is getting the timing right and the poses to look believable, and this example has all of them. We can see the arcs, the holds, we can even feel the breathing and the lip sync.
From the first part we can feel his tension, we see he is worried about something, also his secondary action is smoking (which it is supposed to calm him down).
We can see a lot of his character through his eyes and his gestures, though the holds are helping because we can focus on his heavy breathing.