That was for “Frozen”. I often used live reference of myself or my girlfriend acting out a particular situation. I tried my best to contain the broad choices in my animation to bring it to the desired level of naturalism.

Sometimes I would tone it back too far, to the point that it looked dead and rotoscoped. Then I had to amp some of the caricature back up to find the appeal and simplicity (the reason we like to watch animation in the first place!) It was just a lot of doing it, doing it, doing it until it was right. That's the only way to learn and overcome.