Hi All I'm really not good at posing - while I can easily spot a 'wooden' pose I struggle to identify the subtleties which would turn it into a convincing pose. And somehow, the more ordinary the pose, the more difficult it is to get it right. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good pose set of ordinary, natural, everyday people to populate some architectural illustrations? Typically I need people just standing around (waiting or chatting), walking (like along a sidewalk, not strutting on a catwalk), leaning casually on balustrades, sitting relaxed around a table or around a pool, that sort of thing. Essentially I'm looking to populate scenes with people who don't attract attention in their own right. Figures I'll be using are P4 P5 P6 defaults and Vic2 vic3 Mike. Mostly I'll probably make 'clipart' of the figures and drop the cutouts into my scenes. Any ideas? Thanks OB

I have found that the poses delivered with Poser 5 works pretty well for everyday situations. If you are running Poser 6, they are in the folder named "Poser 5 poses", I think. They are made for Don and Judy, but with a little tweaking they usually works for DAZ figures as well. They are never exactly what I want, but I often use them as a starting point to work from. The poses delivered with e.g. Mike and Vicky are useless, since they depict pretty weird situations. (Has anyone used the DAZ "contraposto" pose unless you try to render a Shakespeare actor on stage? LOL)

Have you tried the poses that come with V3 and M3? They are pretty "normal".

There is a prop in the market place called 'AZL Crowd kit'. It has several people in everyday poses and is very easy on computer resources. At 9.99 it is also at a very good price. It may be what you are looking for. I hope this helps.

Schlabber is my hero when it comes to posing!!!!!!!!! You can search him on the net, and find many many wonderful free poses, but lately I've started buying all that I can afford of his work, since I've realized how wonderful his poses are. Love esther PS I had a modern office from IW43d, posed a V3 using one of schlabber's poses and brought in the chair, and low and behold V3 was seated on it in exactly the right spot, except for the height of the chair which was an office swivel chair and was adjustable. How's that for coincidental (or maybe not).

And the set in particular I would recommend for you is V3 expressions by Schlabber. Love esther

Personaly i think the poses that are included with poser have the best and largest variety of natural everyday poses. as Kelderek said, they will need a little adjusting. There is program called Puppet Master biped (http://www.philc.net/PuppetMaster.htm) that can convert them from one character to another. this will reduce or eliminate the adjusting you would need to do.

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll probably go with the included ones in p6, they look about as natural as any. I think I had kinda overlooked them after my experience of the cheesy poses from earlier versions - all those stupid superhero-getting-kicked ones that no-one ever used, ever, ever. ;o) Thanks for the input. OB

Definitely Schlabber. You could also try making your own. If you don't know where to start, try studying a few anatomy books and sketching them out before you start working on them. A little time with pencil and paper can help you see things which are not always obvious when you're staring at the screen.

I would recommend a set by Martelo here in the marketplace called Mannequin. They are very natural standing poses. There is also another good set by dutchangel called "Everyday Poses" you might look at. These include standing and lying down poses.