Although turning dials one at a time is good for precise adjustments, it's rather unwieldy to fully make poses with it. Feels very unintuitive and clumsy.

It seems to me, that it'd be a lot easier to do most of the work by dragging body parts to where I want them to be, and having poser do the numberwork.

I'm running into problems doing this, though I try dragging a hand to where I want it to be, and I'd like the arm to pose accordingly. But when I drag a hand around, the chest and stomach bends to accomodate it too, and the figure just ends up in odd positions.

So, I have two questions.

1. Is there any way to limit what joints are rotated when I move a body part around? For example, when dragging the left hand, I'd like only the hand, lower arm, upper arm, and shoulder to adjust. Not any of the trunk nodes.

2. Does anyone have some general advice on making posing easier? Little known tricks, alternate methods, etc. Short of using a motion capture suit, which I don't have and can't afford.