I've been busy making poses for the last 3 months to prepare for a Pose Set give away and I'm curious to know what types of poses are people looking these days.

Frederick
Poser By Design

Everyday poses are always good. There are lots of fashion and fighting poses but doing ordinary things are nice to have.

Good two handed sword poses are not easy to find..

Actual body placement for the woman in everyday life. I've taken extreme poses - there's a plethora of those - and created my own collection of more realistic, attractive feminine stances and attitudes and gestures and...

Yes, and I have some/most/all of those. They're perfect!!!! That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Missionary.
dph

Quote - Yes, and I have some/most/all of those. They're perfect!!!! That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Perhaps we could start a wee collection - kinda share back and forth, maybe. I make sure that the knees and elbows don't go in directions they aren't meant to. And V4 is shocking for some poses, so I don't even go there. But some are essential:

See what I mean? Little miss attitude! This is far harder to do than Flight of the Concord or whatever... the legs, feet in heels, arms, hands, fingers and shoulders need to all fit so it looks like she's really there. Let alone the neck or the head or the look in the eyes. I'm not even doing mouths yet. Maybe a bit of a sneer? We're not even going to talk about skin and clothing and street shaders and gamma-correction and adding noise to the street texture and... lol

Any pose that I can manage to make myself is always nice ;o).

Laurie

Great pose, Robinsveil... Very natural... Don't take this wrong, but a perfectly ordinary stance. Someone would ACTUALLY strike this pose. And dozens of variations could be easily spawned by changing arm/hand positions.

 
Believe it or not, the shortage I see is sitting poses... Not sitting on the ground, but sitting in a chair! Everyone wants to put her on the ground, or on a sofa and let her loll around. Sitting in a chair... reading, talking... watching TV. All of those would be useful.

good classical, artistic poses. that said, i don't really use pose sets.  hmmmm.  actually, the one thing i do use them for would be good- basic positions.  so, starting from T-pose, i might use preset pose to get my figure to sit or lie down.  basically, anything where i might take a while to just get my figure in the general position.  and it usually messes up stuff because i get the whole pose.  so i'd vote for basic presets like sit, stand with arms down, lie down on back, lie down on stomach, etc. 

Quote - so i'd vote for basic presets like sit, stand with arms down, lie down on back, lie down on stomach, etc. 

I think I know exactly what you mean. Something to get things started without having to start from the very beginning?

Frederick
Poser By Design

Tying shoes, picking something off the ground, sweeping or shoveling, every day activities.

Quote - Great pose, Robinsveil... Very natural... Don't take this wrong, but a perfectly ordinary stance. Someone would ACTUALLY strike this pose. And dozens of variations could be easily spawned by changing arm/hand positions.

That's the idea. You can go from there. It would be nice to have some sort of central repository for this sort of pose... like a Google Docs type collection anyone can add to... well, mostly anyone. lol

Quote - good classical, artistic poses. that said, i don't really use pose sets.  hmmmm.  actually, the one thing i do use them for would be good- basic positions.  so, starting from T-pose, i might use preset pose to get my figure to sit or lie down.  basically, anything where i might take a while to just get my figure in the general position.  and it usually messes up stuff because i get the whole pose.  so i'd vote for basic presets like sit, stand with arms down, lie down on back, lie down on stomach, etc. 

One of the things I've found with some of the presets that are already available is that going from them to where you want to go can be more work than starting from the orthogonal position. And yes, classical artistic poses, like from established artwork, would be nice (if that's what you were refering to).
There's enough extreme stuff out there.

Might just observe the family in action and see if I can capture the pose and the mood at dinner tonight... lol

reactive fighting poses; i.e., two people fighting with (and focused on) each other.

If I had a nickel for every fight scene I've seen with one Vickie about to ruin the day of another Vickie, while the victim unpreparedly stares off to a thousand yards; I could afford Poser 8...;)

Quote - I've been busy making poses for the last 3 months to prepare for a Pose Set give away and I'm curious to know what types of poses are people looking these days.

Sitting in the car, driving.

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One of the things I've found with some of the presets that are already available is that going from them to where you want to go can be more work than starting from the orthogonal position. And yes, classical artistic poses, like from established artwork, would be nice (if that's what you were refering to).
There's enough extreme stuff out there.

Might just observe the family in action and see if I can capture the pose and the mood at dinner tonight... lol

about the presets - exactly.  occasionally, i'll try a few presets that sort of get me there, but i often have to undo stuff that's too detailed.  that's why a set that, for instance, left hands and feet in default positions, generally left arms in default position, but moved the figure into sitting or prone positions would be helpful.  poses that worked as tools to make things easier without imposing a specific implementation.

in terms of classical art poses, yes, i was thinking about fine art.  but in that style is just as good.

I would go with partial poses.  Poses for different body parts which you could build on rather than entire poses.  Perhaps a series of partial poses related to particular activities, i.e., everyday stances, fighting, sitting, action, etc.

For me, everyday poses are a great need. Sitting at a table, working, opening a door, natural standing poses like Robynsveil's. Those are priceless. I have no use for all the cheesecake poses out there. I generally have to make my poses myself because there is so little around that is useful to me.

Couples poses that aren't overtly sexy would be great, too.  Just a natural stance, hand on a shoulder, that kind of thing.

The types of Poses I am looking for would be for males, drinking beers, playing cards (could be for female also), general everyday poses, like typing on a keyboard. For the females very simple I would like poses that are soft, like sitting on the floor, laying down on a couch (been looking for a good one of those), relaxing poses .

Quote - For me, everyday poses are a great need. Sitting at a table, working, opening a door, natural standing poses like Robynsveil's. Those are priceless. I have no use for all the cheesecake poses out there. I generally have to make my poses myself because there is so little around that is useful to me.

Every day pose sound great :-)

Seems like I'll have to revisit the direction I was taking with the poses that I was making. Good thing I asked. ha ha ha

Frederick
Poser By Design

There is one problem I can see with everyday stuff like sitting.  If you change whatever is being sat on, you run the risk of having to do a lot of tweaking.

Take the thinker statue.  If you make what he's sitting on higher or lower you might have to go through a lot of work to get the same effect if it is even possible.  You could also change the scale of the prop he's sitting on but that might not always look nice.

I think hborre has the right idea.

Single sword poses, creature poses, standing poses ...

Action style:

Climbing, Hanging, Floating, Flying, Falling ... Anything with dynamics.

@ Ghostofmacbeth, FYI JustDusty made a nice set of sword "use" poses Swordist

actually, I've seen a lot of these poses in P5, as standard sets. Granted, they're for the installed Poser figures (Don and Judy), but there's folders of falling, sitting, driving, etc. Aside from finger problems with Vickie (they bend way back using other characters' poses), a few tweaks should set them right.

(one actual benefit of being OC enough to catalog everything in Poser...;)

Still, no reason we can't have more...;)

Any poses that are not "Hip" saved.

I would like to see some every day poses like walking, handling objects but mostly I would like to see some hands poses... not just pointing but also every day poses... It's real hard trying to get the hand in just the right position to hold a book from under or hold a tray.. Maybe I just need to get more experience working these thing out on V4...

 I like poses involving props like commercial motorcycles, boats, aeroplanes, weapons, other poser figures etc.
Love esther

Ones which don't move elbows and knees side to side, twist fingers or do other impossible things.  There are some sets on sale - even at DAZ - which do just that. 

In creating poses, I've discovered: less is more. Humans bend and twist just so far, and I don't care which mesh you're using, extreme bends look bad.

I do hope in Victoria 5 (when and if she comes out) then will address the leg-bend, skirt bend sitting pose issue 'a priori'. We have 40 million boob morphs but her groin (the anterior portion where the leg and the trunk meet) still needs looking at.
And is it just me or why is it I cannot bend knees and arms past like 80 degrees without them looking dodgy?

 wel schlabber once said that he reckoned those limits they set on joints were set by geriatric people.
However he wasn't talking about fingers bending from side to side at the interphalangeal joints, he was talking about hips etc.
Love esther

Whatever you decide - make it human.

What I mean is...

* I've seen way too many poses that lack even the most basic of body expressions, or expressions that are so damned exaggerated, it hurts just looking at it. keep the joints within tolerable limits. If it hurts you to hold that same pose in real life for more than 10 seconds, guess what? It's likely too exaggerated.

• figure out what the figure is doing/thinking/emoting BEFORE you build a pose for it, and keep to that until you're done.

* Use the whole body - every joint. Start at the hip and work your way out. You have a boatload of opportunities to express something with each joint - use them. Figure out what those muscles are doing at the time.

* Keep gravity in mind.

* For the love of all that is holy, only arch the feet down when you have to - not everyone wears 8" high-heel shoes all day long.

* spend time on the hands and fingers.

* take the time to point the head somewhere, but use the neck to do most of the pointing.

* let the figure slouch once in awhile. In real life, bad posture is unhealthy, but in poses, it's pretty realistic (mostly because people slouch nearly all the time in real life...)

* the hip has rotate axes - use them, even when it doesn't make sense to (because humans do exactly that, all the time). Same with the abdomen and chest (e.g. spine).

• not every woman has huge silicone-heavy tits - try to account for variations.