A pose is a snapshot of a selected character’s or object’s position. This may include the position of the entirety of an object or a character’s whole body, or only selected parts. Poses can be created for anything that has an effector. For characters, you can even create poses of hand and finger positions.

Since poses are created and pasted in conjunction with Control rigs, you can retarget poses onto any character or object that has a Control rig. Libraries of poses can be saved and loaded for use from one MotionBuilder session to another, and for use with different characters.