Anim progression workflow

Cleaning out my hard drive I found these video progression videos and thought it'd be worth posting. 

Anim Progession Video

​This is by no means the best or only way to do things,  just a workflow that for this type of shot, works for me. 

BLOCKING - After doing some thumbnails on paper, I tend to start with broad Key (golden) poses that convey the main idea.

BLOCKING - plus
Additional breakdowns become apparent very quickly after this, where the action is not being described well enough. I tend to spread the keys poses out and fill in between with these breakdowns.

BLOCKING - timing
A rough stab at timing, as until this point I've paid it no attention.

SPLINE - copied pairs
Until now the animation is in stepped. On changing it to linear ( I tend to just go straight to auto-tangent as long as curves are flat) you find your lovely holds & timing has turned to mush.  Here I add copied pairs, which is essentially bordering your key poses and maintaining those holds.

SPLINE - layering
At this stage I start to look at how all parts of the body flow from pose to pose. I also add overlap and pay attention to any stutters/corners in the animation.

POLISH - I now look at texture, so any minor movement on top of the existing animation, individual finger movements, offsetting keys & movements, camera, anything I think will plus the anim that I haven't spotted until this point.  It should really be icing on the cake stuff at this point though, not re-baking the cake :)