key poses

I've just watched some of the first animation tutorials by Keith Lango, and it seems that indeed, strong character poses are the key to succesful animation. What I like about this idea is the fact that it kind of resembles traditional animation - the animator should treat each key pose as an individual drawing, or an illustration that should be telling (or at least selling) the story to the audience.

http://www.manga-access.com/

So incredibly POWERFUL!!!

Perhaps all the time I've spent viewing the gazillions of manga pages won't go to waste after all, eh?;]