Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Just a Poser kinematics question from a curious person

fnog9 opened this issue on Feb 06, 2006 ยท 7 posts


fnog9 posted Mon, 06 February 2006 at 8:22 PM

HELLO!!!!!!!! I was just wondering something about the way bodies move in poser. I find one area of the body curious in poser; the buttock area. I wonder why the buttocks would be seperated from the thigh. This seems curious to me because movement of the buttock areas (bend, twist, side/side) will move in response to motion of the iliofemoral joint. There is no butt joint, so I always feel strange when I am posing, having to move the buttocks because the buttocks don't just move on their own. Why seperate the buttocks from the thigh? They are one.... at least, the two areas of the body will move as a result of the same joint. Seperating those two areas of the body makes posing more difficult because I am always having to tweak the thigh in accordance with the buttocks. Seperating the collar from the upper arm is almost the same issue, but not exactly. Movement of the collar area will often occur as a result of movement of the arm, ie: horizontally adducting the arm will cause protraction of the collar area. However, the collar area can at least move on its own without reliance on the upper arm, ie: shoulder elevation. This is not the case with the buttocks, and the thigh, however, as movement of the buttocks depends on movement of the thigh. So I can see why the collar and upper arm are seperate, but I wonder why the buttocks and thigh are seperate? Just curious.