So I’ve got a friend in the acting/modeling business, and she’s expressed interest in helping with pose packs for Victoria. As in, posing for a camera in such a way that it could easily be duplicated on a V4/V5/V6 figure, and then posted or sold at Renderosity.

Not actually a bad idea! But it’s a crowded market. There are so many pose packs out there already, both here and at other places, that it would be difficult to do something like that without getting lost among pages and pages of poses.

What are most people looking for nowadays in terms of poses? As in, what can I recommend she do if she wanted to create a set of poses?

Thanks in advance. I know it’s a strange question.

~Ain

Well, I tend to look for poses I either can't quite do myself, or that I can't find anywhere else.

That said, why not have your friend do themed poses such as housework, pin-ups, exercise, etc. Then just create a pose set for each theme.

One of the things I personally find hardest to do myself is proper lying down poses. So I might be interested in those. Both sleeping poses and more sensually lying down ones.

Animated poses. I'd say fairly simple natural movements, such as sitting down on a chair/sofa, standing up again, opening the fridge, reaching for something on a high shelf, opening and closing doors/cabinets, picking things up from a table/counter/ the floor.

You might need mocap hardware and software for that though.

Natural lying down poses, like Trekkie asks for, are also in short supply.

Or - provided you can find yourself a 2nd model - combined poses.

It would be great to see more elegant poses, arm poses where the hands aren't on the face...more like arm/hand expressions when talking. 

Natural looking hand poses. Particularly for holding things.

I like poses that involve bought products eg holding a particular gun, riding particular motor bikes, driving particular cars, with poses that place the person or object in just the right place.  inolving couples, eg helping climb up a steep hill or cliff, cling to ropes, well anything you think might be needed for an action comic really.

I'd like to see more poses for either M4 or some "masculine" poses that can be applied to male V4 figures.

Frank Frazetta/Boris Vallejo for me!

Quote - I like poses that involve bought products eg holding a particular gun, riding particular motor bikes, driving particular cars, with poses that place the person or object in just the right place.  inolving couples, eg helping climb up a steep hill or cliff, cling to ropes, well anything you think might be needed for an action comic really.

I don't mind doing those kind of poses, but the problem is you limit the user to one particular product. I rather use generic products that put the figure in the basic pose and the artist can tweek them to get them in a better position. There's also the problem that everything isn't built to the same scale. I made some poses of V4 and V3 driving the same car, and their heads stick through the roof of the car. And it's a car that DAZ sold!