Pose Library Design

calesthio/OpenMontage/.agents/skills/pose-library-design

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Design reusable 2D character pose libraries, action cycles, and expression states for data-driven animation.

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Designs reusable 2D character pose libraries, action cycles, and expression states for data-driven animation.

What it does
This skill guides the production of pose_library artifacts for 2D characters. It defines pose categories such as neutral, attention, emotion, action, and mouth shapes, and describes an acting pattern of anticipation, action, hold, and settle. It also specifies a JSON pose data pattern with part-level changes, hold frames, and transitions, plus a quality checklist for coverage of required emotions, actions, and cycles.
When to use it
Use it when building a reusable set of character poses, action cycles, or expression states for data-driven animation. It fits work where poses are authored as structured data and reused across scenes rather than animated continuously.
Requirements
No scripts are included; it is instructions only. The referenced sources mention GSAP and Remotion for sequencing and interpolation, but no packages, runtimes, credentials, or network access are required by the skill itself.

Pose Library Design

Use this skill when producing pose_library artifacts.

Pose Categories

  • Neutral: idle, breathe, listening.
  • Attention: look_up, look_down, look_left, look_right.
  • Emotion: happy, sad, surprised, worried, determined.
  • Action: reach, point, hold, jump, flap, walk_contact, walk_passing.
  • Mouth: closed, small_o, wide_open, smile, frown, phoneme-ish shapes.

Acting Pattern

Use timed pose sequences:

text
anticipation -> action -> hold -> settle

Do not continuously animate every part. Holds make the acting readable.

Pose Data Pattern

json
{  "pose": "surprised",  "parts": {    "head": { "rotation": -6, "y": -4 },    "pupil_left": { "x": 4, "y": -6 },    "mouth": "small_o"  },  "hold_frames": 18,  "transition": "back.out"}

Quality Checklist

  • Required emotions have poses.
  • Required actions have poses or cycles.
  • Reused cycles have contact and passing poses.
  • Poses name only changed parts; defaults come from the rig.

Sources

Source and attribution

Source:calesthio/OpenMontagein.agents/skills/pose-library-designat commit9327439

License: MIT

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