“Posing a character on the computer takes way too much time because of all the controls that have to be manipulated, I find that I can draw and animate a simple stick figure inside of FlipBook to represent my character and solve the performance in real time. When I’m happy with my performance then I can bring my FlipBook images into Maya as an ImagePlane and use them for reference for my CG version. All the directors love this way of working because they get to see a blue print of the shot very quickly instead of seeing a weird CG blocking pass with floaty computer in-betweens.”

said by Jason Ryan, Supervising Animator, Walt Disney Animation Studio

Let’s see how he can create nice animation, very simple and very fast.