Pose to Pose Animation Research: Itchy and Scratchy

Pose to Pose animation is basically when a character moves from one pose to the next in an animation so instead of just non-stop running a character might run, stop and run again. Basically a main animator will plot out all the keyframes; so what positions they want the character to get into and then it is the role of the other animators to fill in the gaps with other frames.

For example we can see from the above Itchy and Scratchy cartoon; Scratchy walks outside, he stops in a position (keyframe) picks up Itchy and hugs him, stop (keyframe), then Itchy proceeds to attack him.