'In fact, there was a fashion for photographer's models to look anywhere but at the camera. In general, I prefer that' Fair enough, although I'm a bit suspicious of 'trends' and whatever happens to be 'fashionable' at a particular time. IMO, any artist has to do what he/she feels, NOT what happens to be the currently fashionable thing to do. Originality doesn't come from doing what everybody else is doing at the same time. To descend from general musings to the topic in hand, I'd say that the best models are actors. They sort of reach into themselves and play a role for the camera. Not easy to do with a digital figure, but I suppose you can try. I learnt about fashion photography from looking at pictures and working as an assistant to other photographers. And I don't mean just camera and lighting techniques. I mean working with models, dealing with clients and art directors, getting a result when everything that can go wrong does go wrong, etc, etc. So I'd say that the best guide to posing is observing people. In the street, in the home, in magazines and on TV. And it helps to think 'outside the frame'. By that, I mean outside the normal way of looking at things. I don't render often, but when I do, I like to experiment. I'll try one single light and get it right, then switch to a 20mm camera and play around with weird angles from above or below. Or pose the figure lying on the floor and bring the camera down to floor level. Do an extreme close-up of the face. I dunno. Anything EXCEPT the standard scene with a figure standing up straight and the camera face on. My problem is that I tend to do things I would do with a nikon, which isn't always possible in poser. But hey, why not try anyway? mac PS When posing, it's a good idea to use the animation controls to 'tweak' the pose. If you set an initial pose, then a 2nd one, you can use the keyboards arrows or animation controls to move the figure frame by frame between the 2 poses. Great for altering preset poses.