Quote - Question then, would be what type of animation workflow has worked for you all ?

 

Well, the one workflow that works consistently well for me is aniBlocks. I have used them since the aniBlock importer came out and really like them.

I have used poses, but sometimes there aren't enough poses to make the animations I want and the amount of "tweaking" gets to be time prohibitive.

I know you said you don't want aniBlocks, but that's what has produced the best results for me.