T-Poses, A-Poses, Other Weird Poses and Why 

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the T-Pose emote in Fortnite is really funny because all of the characters are created in an A-Pose, so they couldn't even cheap out on it, they had to animate the arms raising

1:30 I love the little detail of Gimberly’s shoulder getting tired from holding the t-pose. See how long you can do it, it can get tough, or I’m just weak 😅

0:41 I love the Gimberly is distracted for a second by her A-Pose counterpart then quickly snaps back to reality. It really gives life to her, she I love that she has a personality.

The human pose of dominance. It truly is beautiful

3:01 Luigi T-pose. How beautiful

I love Chai's pose being both an A and a T pose, it honestly kind of adds to his character in a weird way LOL

The little glances Gimberly does is such a nice touch. Those little details are why i love your videos

8:35 Doodley's model snickering like that is so cute

Gimberly really be giving the death stare in that thumbnail

I think my favorite T/A pose moment came from LIS 3's "what emotion is this?" as a new scene loaded

I never thought I would see the day where Doodley and Heavy TF2 are in the same place

3:58, the first of its kind. The hybrid pose, a combination of an A and a T pose

I always love seeing the "stick" pose for snakes and long creatures, it never fails to get a hearty gut chuckle from me

My favourite default model pose is Smash Ultimate's Kraid model. It's a T-pose except his legs are extended forward as if he's sitting. I call it the bum pose. The weirdest thing is that the character NEVER assumes a similar sitting position in the game and the bum pose only results in additional stretching that otherwise wouldn't be there. There's little discernable reason why they didn't give him a regular T-pose, but it's really funny, like a plush toy.

Something I am surprised you didn't bring up was the semi-uncommon "I-Pose", where a character is modeled with every limb facing downwards, or adjacently so. Granted, this is only applicable in incredibly specific scenarios but one of the most common ways I see it is when a character is modeled with Individual Meshes rather than a singular Skinned Mesh. ------------------- Granted, this may not be the video for that because -- again -- this is mostly for a simplification of the poses in question and why what is what, but I-poses hold a unique position between Traditionals (T-pose, A-pose and the coined "Hug-Pose") and the Unusuals. Good video regardless, but this felt like a missed nuanced topic within this discussion. Kudos & Cheers.

Another Tip about T-Pose! A majority of VR games with Full-Body Tracker Support (a system where you can use extra objects to calculate legs in the real world) actually use T-Pose instead of A-Pose! I’ve always wondered why, but now that I’ve watched your video, it’s because the shoulders need to move a lot more, especially up and down in Y-Poses and A-Poses, making the T-Pose the best for said arm movements.

8:03 Doodley is probably my favorite when it comes to slotting in JoJo references when least expected. This was peak.

8:35. Having his hands over his face makes Doodley's moustache look like a grin to me XD

I love how he put Team Fortress 2 A-Pose as an example, a posing is possible ingame when you pick up a weapon while your weapon was out of ammo, and youd enter a-pose stage. Today its a meme

I remember I tried to make a 3d model with its arms at the side, bc I didn’t know the purpose of the T pose, and trying to rig the arms just pulled the body and leg mesh with the arms bc of automatic weight painting. It looked goofy lol Also, hilarious coincidence that the model of Chai from HiFi Rush was used here when the news of the studios revival broke today!

SONIC 3 BUBBLE SHIELD SOUND 5:58 🎉🎉🎉

4:08 honestly this is honestly one of the best things i've seen today. Tysm for showing Milanote, this seems so helpful for like evreything omg,,. I plan onto someday using this for reminding myself for a character series, with also designs and what not. THANK YOU for showing this Doodley, ur a life savior

I've been using Milanote for fighting games, helps me remember who has what and anything extra I need to know like frame data or follow up options. Brilliant stuff honestly.

Tf2 is the game that has the commiunity that still use the A-pose glicth for the funny. For example: -Spinning A-pose heavy -A-pose scout spaming 1 voice line (X+5) while chasing them until they killbind

The A-posing Hoovys are the most dangerous creatures in tf2

Computers actually normally don’t store rotations as 3 values anymore, due to Gimbal lock - they’re typically stored as a quaternion or matrix, but then exposed to humans as these 3 Euler angles :)

8:56 zenyatta ubisoft edition lol

0:56 why does it look like the wireframe model is screaming 😂

3:45 Joker asserting dominance over the shadows with the glorious T-Pose. It's Perfect!

it’s always a good day, when another doodley video’s uploaded

i love the detail of having overwatch 2 be the source at 6:54 instead of ow1 because that skin released in ow2

This entire video is Doodley’s excuse to talk about the Bizarre ™️ frog

another banger on a topic I love! t poses and a poses are one of those things that are almost universally known but barely understood, its always fun to explain that there is an actual reason behind it, keep up the great vids dood!

It's also important to know if your engine or game has an expected standard. For example, Unity generally expects t-posed models.

It is nice seeing Half-Life/TF2 things on a Doodley video. It'd be interesting for you to tackle how FPS weapon view-models are animated, since that's kind of in a category of it's own and has slightly different workflows from how animation is traditionally made (from what I've seen)

There is the T-Pose, the A-Pose, but the most important pose is the Jojo-Pose.

Please do a seperate short on Pokemon T poses. They intrigue me alot. Especially Drampas.😅

5:42 I only have utilized Milanote for uh... organizing lore documents on a really specific obscure part of the lore that has barely any elaboration for a game I really like I could probably use it more often

Heavy A-posing never fails to make me chuckle

I love the little personality bits you weave into these, like with Gimberly looking at things and then remembering "oh right I'm supposed to be demonstrating a T-pose!". It's just fun and makes paying attention easier. Re Nintendo: my favorite default pose is probably Craig Cuttlefish's default pose in Splatoon 3. His arms are at a T, but he's hunched over and squatting since he's always doing that to depict being super old. It looks very silly, even by bind pose standards.

6:18 hey doodley for some reason in the top left it says smash ultimate was from 2008 instead of 2018 just wanted to let you know :)

Gotta love the "weirdo" T-poses, perfectly functional but hilarious out of context. Off the top of my head, I remember the NiGHTS character models have a sitting pose with the arms forward, like they're driving an invisible kart. Oh, and if you liked the frog at 7:58, go check Frogger from Frogger Beyond!

3:40 Katrielle Layton from the hit game Layton: Something somethign! I love the music from that game! I really want that game, it looks so cool, and I love the char design of Katrielle

0:32 honestly it kinda looks like the Jack-O pose

Seeing that Milanote is free makes me really wanna use it for planning my movie ideas. It’ll be better than having it in a handful of word documents like I currently have.

3:59 omg he mentioned Hi-Fi RUSH now doodley is absolutely my favorite youtuber

2:49 I put forward the motion that hug pose should be the official name. Does anyone second?

3:28 explains the Miles Morales A-Pose in the first Spider-Man PS4 game during some segments.

T pose. Ah yes- the supreme pose to win a battle.

3:18 I've been trying to get into 3D and I wasn't aware of this difference between A-poses and T-poses (it seems kind of obvious now though-)

RU-vid giving me something good after what has felt like a week of the same 20 videos copy-pasted is nice

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Something funny I'd like to add is how Mario's default pose is handled in Super Mario 64. Internally, Mario is stored with all his parts compressed into a small form. (Imagine Mario laying down, except his legs and arms are put inside his main body.) However, the default pose is an A-pose, especially noticable when getting squashed or stuck, as Mario lacks a unique animation for that.

when the heavy showed up the first time A posing i literally just laughed for a good bit cause some of the random A posas (or civilian pose i guess) are just funny to see

If a tf2 character's arm goes straight up (As medic, if you lose the round while healing someone, you go into 3rd person and your animation bugs out) the stretching and warping on his right arm is super noticeable, this makes a lot of sense now, learned a lot from this vid, thanks for sharing 🖤🖤

JoJo Phantom Blood is magnificent with that Ripple punch.

I absolutely adore your dedication to making the visuals fun, especially with Gimberly and her expressive animation. It adds so much life to everything!

8:55 we'll take this character for a test drive, and then we'll give it a doug score

seeing the model used to show the static pose then, very fluidly shows movement is so jaring, lovely stuff

Lets goo Doodley, thx for making these videos that are very well done, and keeps my attention though out, hope you're having a great day like this video gave me

As 3d artist, i remember being so confused with sudden trend of T posing back then and wondered why they find it amusing.

6:29 this part made me laugh out loud 😂

3:57 the legendary AT POSE

0:25 I'll be honest, I was half expecting to see Heavy Weapons Guy from Team Fortress 2 for the A pose (Edit: before you tell me, I did see it.)

if you want to make your community be terrified of an A-posing Heavy, make sure to not fix the bugs to get into a reference pose.

5:48 i mostly use paint but i guess im using a little bit of milanote too

I recently modeled my first character in A-pose but I was still unsure if it was really necessary, but now it makes sense to me, the character is for a racing game, so it will be super rare to see this character raise his arms like crazy, thank you very much

T pose to assert dominance

Thanks for telling me about Milanote! Sometimes i get a random idea for a character but i never get down to write them down. Using milanote right now!

doodley video drops i watch simple as that 😎👍

Even the worst of days can be made better when Doodley uploads! Thank you for the quality content you create! I know it takes a whole lot of effort to make videos like this.

I recently finished my first Blender animation, and after all the hurdles I went over, Milanote looks like a genuinely awesome tool to help along the process. WAY better than just using Notepad to write down things lmao Gonna give it a go for my next project!

I did not expect a stretching sadness in my Doodley video 😂

9:00 like ROBLOX characters often most of the time the limbs will only rotate around the x axis

Congrats on the sponser! Im gonna be honest, i think this is the first sponser that i find a use for. Milanote will be really usefull for me to create my character turn around and rig for me to use!

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FINALLY AN EXPLANATION FOR T-POSES AND A-POSES THAT IS ACTUALLY GOOD! thanks.

7:50 wait isn't that the Cicada Block? lol

1st ever time watcher here .. thanks for the lesson, also your design for Gimberly is quite cute!

3:54 hey spyke I got some shells here I need better gear, please

Actual legend, answered my question way more thoroughly than I expected. Keep bringing animation topics to a broader audience, these are the kinds of generalised but still informative and entertaining videos I can share with friends and family, and they actually understand it. I guarantee you, along with many others, are bringing up the next generation of creatives... And it's awesome that you do it in almost this Bill Nye / kids TV program sort of way.

dang we still have to t pose in the airport

That's the first time a video made me interested enough to try the sponsors product. Also, great video as always :D

I love your video's its RELLY helps me

3:54 SPYKE MENTIONED! No idea that was his splatoon 1 bind pose. I guess it was for convenience, because all he does is sit like that in-game.

The hug pose reminds me of astronauts sleeping in space and how their arms naturally float in front of them :)

These videos are great to fall asleep to but then by the end I'm forced to to spring out of bed and bust a move to the outro music

Babe wake up Doodley posted

Im using milanote for my notes this year at school

3:52 SPLATOON MENTIONED SPLATOON MENTIONED SPLATOON MENTIONED SPLATOON MENTIONED SPL

I love the fact on how you explain things in a way were it works with every program, truly brilliant!

H-pose 8:07

btw, 6:55 Zen Has an Emote where he stands up to stretch, then goes back to Normal. I wonder if they use a different model for that, which is very unlikely.

1:47 I fell asleep on this bit, sorry

the team fortress 2 A-Pose refrences are insane

Civilian from Team Fortress 2

Unrelated but I love that you site your sources and the music, Plus your high quality animation and commentary. This is what RU-vid should be like

Oh boy, those masc pronouns for Gwyndolin completely blindsided me. I'm so used to second hand discourse where everyone is so _obviously_ in universal agreement she's a trans woman, I didn't even _know_ that's... apparently not confirmed canon? Don't blame me, I never played the dark souls, I just hang out in lgbt gamer spaces.

Related to the discussion about shoulders, the first real digitally animated TV show, Reboot gave some of the human-looking characters shoulder pads, Because their model would stretch and distort, while other characters had stylized ball and socket limbs or were designed such that they didn't have that issue. As the series went on they became much more experienced with production so they changed their outfits, partially as a flex