Sakurai analyzes cool character poses in new dev video

Masahiro Sakurai has released another in his line of game development videos on YouTube. The latest video covers one aspect of ‘Animation’ in video games.

Sakurai uses a Pit action figure created by Figma to demonstrate how effective a cool character pose can be when it comes to animating games. What makes a cool pose “cool”? Sakurai demonstrates various methods to keep a character from looking static or boring just from their stance.

Give the video a watch now, and it might encourage you to start playing more with your action figures! It might also serve as good advice for poses to take in your next real-life photo.