[3DS Max] Whats the suggested workflow for animating with curve editor?

99499

I'm just now learning how to use it and its kind of confusing but I'll get the hang of it. I'm just curious what the "production" workflow is for animating with the curve editor. I would presume that you make the primary motions of an animation manually using controllers and then fine-tune it using the curve editor but I'm learning you can also animate entirely in the curve editor so I'm wondering what the best or most common practice is.

monster

Work with the character in the viewport as much as possible. When you’re getting started it will be much easier to set a new pose with a key frame than to massage it out of the curve editor. 

This is a very good series that includes a lot of curve editor work. Notice that each animation workflow is posing, then timing, then curve editor work.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZIwxnt1NGpqboZKFcDvFF5oX1bJ9gsnc