Hello all! I have been enjoying all the art and stuff that I have been seeing on this site and others. I am amazed at what can be done with this Poser 5 program and others like it( 3D Studio Max 6). I am posting here because, after having read the manual for Poser 5 I still can't seem to pose very well. When I try to move an arm or a leg, the skin folds and the limbs fail to move a a realistic way. What I wanna ask about is, is whether there are any good tutorials for modelling out there for Poser virgins such as myself? And if there are any are they free or do I have to pay for them? Thanks for reading this

nothing like another geep tut..one thing I've found is that you don't move part of a body; often you move a whole body..f'rinstance, to move the hand in front of the face, you can start with the shoulder, the arm, the forearm, then the hand..but let the good doctor explain it way better than me..;)

If you look around there are a lot of ready made poses all made up. I find them very helpful to use one to get the basic pose that I want and then I can adjust a foor or a hand or even rotate the head. You might need to read a little more about collisions in the manual expecially when posing children. I also find that a lot of poses for a specific character will work on other Cr2's. Like V3 poses seem to work on SP3. My free stuff for Poser 2,3,4, also work well on Poser5 ect. I have even done my own hair within Poser 5 but I am also always looking for an easier way. I only did it one time and then figured out it is a lot easier to use a ready made or just use hair brushes in PS or PSP. Hope this helps some. I am not an old pro at this stuff either.

If it helps - move body parts with the dials not the tools. I could never get to grips with those tools. Just double click a body part and the dials come up.

"If it helps - move body parts with the dials not the tools. could never get to grips with those tools." I agree. Better yet, ensure that the Parameters Palette is displayed, and select the body parts from that (or from the heirarchy pallette). Double-clicking on the body part works most of the time, but it's too easy for your hand to slip slightly and actually introduce an unwanted change. And there are some occasions when you can't easily click on the body part anyway (IE if something else is in the way). Once you learn how to move using the dials, many poses become a lot easier:-) (but it does take practise). And also I agree with the previous comments. Poses need to created "from the inside out". After all, if you move your hand to pick up something, you don't actually move just the hand. You move all of the arm (and possibly part of the upper part of the body) to get the hand to where it needs to be. So you need to do that in Poser too.. Cheers, Diolma