What is your go to pose?

[ndainye]

I've been doing a lot of staging recently and it's gotten me thinking about poses and animations and finding what works.  I find myself continually flipping back to the same animations.  Part of it is comfort zone, part of it is ease of use but a good part of it is that I know I can make them work because I've used them before

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[remisims]

I tend to use a lot of maxis poses/anims and facial expressions when I'm staging. Some non maxis poses are okay, but a lot of them I find suit more static posing, they don't convay movement. I tend to overuse decorgal's pose box for the facial expressions, and the OFB and Nightlife anim boxes by Jaydee, especialy for arguments.

[simtopi]

Off the top of my head, I use the OFB "Wait" poses a lot. They convey so much attidude that's appropriate for my characters.

I'm pretty sure I use that pose at least once per update. >_>

[orikes13]

There are a bunch that I use over and over again, but I don't know if I could pin it to just one.

I find the obstacle course animations fairly handy. I've used them for when Miranda was hanging off the side of a building, for when Ian jumped off the second floor, and when Star jumped over the stair railing.

I've used the bowling falls a few times. Some of the BV sand animations are handy when you want someone doing something on the ground.

I tend to spend a lot of time working with Decorgal's talk paintings. I'll queue up a variety of animations for the sims talking to each other and just let them go and capture what I get. Foot stomp is a great one for arguments. ;)

I also abuse beyond belief the facial overlays from the model poses box. They are soooo useful and can turn animations into something else completely.

[rosefyre]

My go to pose is probably the finger wiggle for crouching/kneeling, and Hula and More's still poses for hands on hips and crossed arms, which don't include the smile that comes in the BV ones. I probably overuse those last two quite a bit. I think part of the reason for my liking still poses is the fact that I don't have freezer clock, so getting animations to line up is easier if one sim isn't actually moving. Otherwise, though, I definitely like movements better than poses - looks more real.

[strange_tomato]

Being a bit of a drama queen, one of my favourites for having a sim fall to their knees is "plead with grim reaper." :P I'm also a fan of using the Pets animation for scolding. The sims has such a wonderfully dramatic wide-eyed WTF look on their face