Does anyone know where I can get a TUT or proggie on making realistic poses in Poser 6?  Thanks in advance.
Adrian

First thing you should always do if you're posing by hand is turn on Limit's for the figures you pose. This will keep them from bending in ways humans shouldn't bend if you drag any body part too hard in the wrong direction.

check your local library, and see if they have reference material on photographic modelling. I have a similar book that basically outlines in thumbnail format, basic modelling poses to utillise when doing a photoshoot. I works great, as a reference guide when posing in poser....

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Thanks everyone for responding.  I will try it out and see what happens.  Thanks again.
Adrian

Karen is right. That tutorial by Stefan is really outstanding.

The real secret, assuming you're able-bodied, is to adopt the pose yourself. Concentrate really hard on how your muscles are pulling or pushing, and how you need to rotate your joints. Work out where your centre of gravity is. And once you've used that info to get your Poser figure positioned, spend as long as it takes to get the hands posed realistically. Oh, and save partial poses as you go along .. you'll soon build up a useful library of arm, leg and hand poses.

another good habit is to NOT drag body parts to achieve pose!!! but to instead use the parameter dials to achieve pose as they are much more acurate and precise!!!you will never get a decent realistic or natural pose by draging body parts as draging moves parts that shouldn't be moved!!!

Oh, and save partial poses as you go along .. you'll soon build up a useful library of arm, leg and hand poses.

That's a great tip, moochie. Do you know of a quick and easy way to save partial poses? I always end up saving the pose then opening with MPE and deleting the extraneous bits.

Yes .. click Add to Library, then Select Sub-Set in the window that pops open. Take the X out of Universe, then X every part you want to save the pose for. Probably a good idea to put 'pp' or something in the pose name, so you know it's a partial pose.

I should add that I've found it best to save poses with IK turned OFF. With it on you risk getting odd results when the partial pose is applied, and it also doubles the size of the pose file, unnecessarily.

Blimey... 3+ years using Poser and I never investigated the subset option. LOL! Thanks moochie :-)

Wow.. Moochie that was a REALY usefull piece of info, I'll have to go try it RIGHT now THANKS!

there is so much, so much, to Poser.

It's a new ting every day

Thanks for the pose saving info, moochie :)

You can probably make any pose you try by starting with a premade one that is similar, then just tweak the parts you need to change.