I am an expressive person, but I am definitely not a natural born actor, so please bear with this bad acting. I don't feel bad the slightest because of this hideous acting since animators at big studios are not so much of a good actors too, but they still does reference video of themselves acting for a scene.
Exaggeration will help to accentuate the movements of animated characters. There should be squashing and stretching in the poses.
In this exercise, I considered the placement of directional lighting to convey the mood of the character even better. The more high energy poses, the directional light source is placed above the character, while for low energy poses, it is placed below. As for fear, it shines directly to the character's face to add tension.
For high energy poses, the core of the body should bend outwards and all the limbs are stretched outwards as far as possible.
For low energy poses, such as tiredness, the core of the body squashes, and so does all the limbs such that the character looks like he is curling up.
The last two poses, I've chosen more difficult poses like envy and fear. I Think they are more difficult to act because the distribution of energy is not as clear cut as high and low energy poses. Envy and fear is a reaction to something external, so first and most accentuated reaction comes from the facial expression, and the body will follow subtly.
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