Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser Girls Lineup comparisons

Lyrra opened this issue on Nov 19, 2015 ยท 115 posts


moriador posted Fri, 20 November 2015 at 11:34 AM

Interesting. Thanks for the comparisons.

For some reason, in the image of Pauline with her elbow bent, the shoulder looks distorted, when in fact the bend in that pose is nice and smoothe. The shadows must be causing some weird artifacts.

I just wanted to note, however, that when I test figures for poses, I frequently use reference pics of real humans because for my purposes, it gets a bit self-defeating to try to get a figure looking as "realistic" as possible in a pose that no human -- even a contortionist -- would really take. For instance, in the pics with the leg up, every figure has a more or less but clearly prominent bubble-butt, which you don't see in actual women who haven't had cosmetic surgery. But that problem tends to diminish dramatically if you rotate the hip/pelvis forward the way it does when living humans raise their legs. Same thing for the bend-forward, touch your toes pose (which you didn't show). Without a lot of hip rotation, every figure gets a crazy looking bubble-butt, but with a more realistic pose, some look better than others. Also, in any pose with the thigh bent upwards, it looks a lot better with the hips rotated and the torso bent. And the thigh bend does not have to be so extreme. To be sure, there are poses in which the knee will come in contact with the chest. But if you try this yourself, you'll find that you cannot do it unless you rotate your hips forward and bend your torso towards your thighs. Even a real human is going to show distortions -- painful ones at that -- if you try to force the thigh into a bend that it really can't take.

Pauline is far from perfect -- as is the case with every figure, and why every figure needs adjustment morphs for specific poses (like Zev0's bend morphs, etc). But one thing I'm really impressed with is her torso bending. She gets a much more realistic tummy bend than the others.

Edit: By the way, I really like your morph and scaling set for Pauline. I haven't picked it up yet, but it's clearly very much an essential package! Thank you!


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