Is animating just moving a character pose to pose?

I read from Carlos Baena about something similar to this. It feels like I'm going through the same boat. When I first started I just moved the character around. Not thinking about the character. Just from a pose to another pose with no reason. I started to think that animation was that.

But now after learning more, and experimenting and just animating I realize there is more behind it.

Of course poses tell the story of the animation, and the type of character you are animating. But I can't explain it but there is more behind it.

You are making a image on a computer alive. Like a human. People just do things for no reason. We don't think of poses we do. We just live. Thats how our characters should be. They should be flowing, not just go from one pose to another with no life.

I can't explain it so well. But when I first read it on his blog I couldn't really connect. I thought thats what animation was right? So I just kept it in the back of my mind, and realized that he was right. There is so much behind the movement of the character.

I need to study more types of characters man. This is so interesting!