ockham posted at 5:02AM Tue, 09 June 2020 - #4391259

It's not a question of ethics, it's just efficiency. I've learned that the canned poses never work, so I just pose manually. Most of the 'Universal' poses are weird, to put it bluntly. I never see actual people doing those things! They don't show people sitting and reading, or sitting and typing, or walking normally, or leaning over and working with tools.

There are some that do. 2nd_World has an "Everyday Poses" series in the RMP for various figures, with people sitting on the couch, working at a computer, handling things on a table, texting on a phone, eating, etc. A lot of his poses are also broken into top and bottom, or even by limb (right leg, left arm) so you mix and match.