Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on Feb 22, 2005 ยท 41 posts
hauksdottir posted Tue, 22 February 2005 at 9:18 PM
I've bought a lot of stuff over the last 5 years, but don't think I've ever purchased a set of poses unless the poses came with the item I was really purchasing. I do have a lot of Schlabber's poses, and his tutorials have been very helpful. I start with the basics, yes even some of the artsy or extreme ones, and tweak from there. If ever I would need a large set of premade poses, I'd buy a CD of them from Schlabber. The problem with premade poses is that the props, tools, and sets are all so different. Let's take something simple like driving a car. Unless the steering wheel is the same size and the seat height is the same, you are going to have to tweak anyway. Why not just start with a sitting person and move the arms up? Suppose that you buy a car with bonus sitting poses for V3... but you want to use Judy or Aiko or Mayadoll or even (gasp) David or Mike or Don. Tough. You will have to pose the body, get the legs tucked in and move the hands onto the wheel anyway. If you want to be limited to only what everybody else uses (flavor of the moment), fine. If you want to be free to use whatever YOU desire, with any figure, you will have to make your own poses. It isn't hard. Carolly