I noticed that poses uses all the body parts when you only animate a few, making your character a little static.

I also noticed that gestures does only affect the animated parts, but they are timed and vanish.

I propose a third custom animations that are for more long-term uses, probably similar to a gesture that doesn't vanish until you toggle it off.

For example, let's say I animate the wings opened (no animation for opening them, transitional animations is not the topic I'm going to talk about) and I want them to keep being open until I toggle them back closed. In the time they are opened, I can still do various animations in the meantime.

This kind of animation can be used for the following:

• opened hand(s)/ closed hand(s) mode

• wings being extended/retracted

• tails being raised/lowered

• accessories (aka glasses/earrings/other) being worn/moved/removed (provided you have enough room to hide them)

• hairstyle being modified (via hairblocks like saiyans from Dragonblock C pre-transformation vs post-transformation)

• eyes being open/closed

• and various gestures that are held while in motion

I don't know what to call this type of animation, closest thing I can think of is "Actions"
Or maybe Gestures should be split to "Timed Gestures" and "Held Gestures"

As a temporary fix, you can set a gesture to "Loop" and it'll stay in that position until you toggle it off.

Oof, such a good idea defeated by such a simple fix. All I can say is ingenious.