While trying to animate digital people, I encountered the world of movement notations through early Penn colleague Steve Smoliar and ex-ballet dancer Lynne Weber. We study how such descriptive systems might be used as graphical digital inputs for a human animation system. We explore Labanotation, but learn that it describes what to move but not how. That aspect is covered in an extension called Effort-Shape notation. I was stymied in building a computational analog to Effort-Shape. I had to wait until Ph.D. student Diane Chi developed a new approach in a system called EMOTE. Rather than adopt a possible physics-based approach, Chi utilized controls on low-level animation parameters inspired by classical hand animation realizations of motion.