Why do people download poses? Surely the point of poser is to....well...erm....Pose? It's like buying a pre-assembled Jigsaw puzzle, wheres the skill in that? Just another one of my random thoughts, nothing to get wound up about.

well there you have something,like myself i create almost al my poses my self, but its pretty easy just go to the pose if as exempel you need your poseer to sit on a chair Wel just a thought

I use a mirror to pose, or someone else to pose for me, just like when I used to sketch or paint.

To me, a pose gets me half way there. I use one that is close then finish what I'm looking for. Its a time saver. But you're right, Poser does, um, pose.

Starting point and pre-vis. I use them to get the major movements done, and then tweak, or if I'm working on a character rather than an image, I'll use them to see how the character moves without driving myself wonky. Just another tool to get where I'm going faster.

Yup. What EricofSD and Fyrespirit said. If I'm working to a deadline anything that speeds up the creative process is useful. Premade poses save me a lot of time in laying out rough drafts and leave me with only the tweaking to do. And lets face it, there's only so many ways Vicky can sit cross-legged with a finger up her nose. :o).

What those guys said ^^^^ My goal is to make a graphic novel (fancy word for comic) with Poser4. I shudder to think the time it would take to paintsakingly do each pose from scratch, for all the figures in a scene. If I did that then I'd only be able to do one page per... oooh half year? :) What I use a lot is partial poses and bodylocks. Then if I rougly have what I had in mind I'll start tweaking 'till I got it just right. Cheers, Axe.

I start with a pose, then change it to what I need. Why re-invent the wheel? Why re-write more code? Same idea, if the pose will get me to where I want to be faster I will use it. I get so tired of purists....lol Marque

Replicant, I missed the cross-legged-Vickie with the finger up her nose pose, is that from Schlabber? 8^P Marque

Tweaking a canned pose can take almost an hour or two, depending on how elaborate it is. I'll usually pick a pose that has the legs and the torso in the right position and the arms close and then go from there. Basically, for me it's eliminating the tedious, and concentrating on the expressive. Emily

They can seem expensive... ... but time is money. I prefer to make my own... but like FyreSpyrit, Marque, Queri, Eric... generally start with a stock pose and re-jig until it looks absolutely nothing like the original. In fact it's usually completely different. This is nice, as I can can use a stock P4 pose on Vicky/Steph and spend hours tweaking until it looks how I want. Starting from scratch can be a little unpleasant... But I've never bought poses and don't intend to start now! Howard:)

Well, Graviton, certainly not as provocative as your "Don't you think a heck of a lot of Poser artists here are slightly pervy?" musing, or even your "Why do PC drones insist on attacking Macs & Mac users?" question. Life is full of mysteries. Most people do what pleases them and some are pleased by unsubtle criticism in the form of questions. It takes all kinds :-)