This week focused on improving pose clarity and anatomy, starting with a hand pose assignment. I created 1–3 hand poses using real-life reference from my own hands, studying how fingers naturally curve and how gestures communicate intention. Looking at animated hand work by artists like Milt Kahl and Glen Keane helped me understand how simple shapes and clear angles make hand poses feel expressive and readable.
Alongside this, I continued developing my Franky pose-to-pose animation, pushing the quality as far as possible while keeping to a single camera angle. I focused on strengthening the key poses and improving the flow between them before moving fully into polish.
This week reinforced how important strong fundamentals are, especially hands and poses, as they play a big role in selling emotion and clarity in animation.
