Tutorials:Taking Totally Bitchin Pics/Modeling Poses

It's about as easy to make a pretty sim as it is to fall off a stump. And for some reason, folks think they reaaaallly need to show off their hot models. Meh. It's not really that hard to do, though... if ya know how.

1. The absolute easiest, simplest, and most effective way of getting nice model pictures is just to get your sims to walk. That's it.

No fancy hacks, no special walk styles, just walking. Even with freewill off, your sims will occasionally fidget slightly as they walk, stretching and looking around in a very natural way - and even if they just walk forward, looking straight ahead, it still looks nice.

To do this, use moveobjects to place your sim at the back of the runway, and then tell them to Go Here to walk to the front.

2. This sim is just walking forward, from the back of the runway. She happened to look down, and she swings her arms in a very elegant, natural way. Isn't this picture elegant, showing the natural beauty of this sim?

Do not underestimate the simple beauty of a sim in motion!

18. You can get some great model poses in a variety of ways. This particular one is from Squinge's Hula Dance and More hack. It's under Animations - Check Butt when clicking on a sim.

Notice how nice the red ceiling looks with the reflective floor - picture the same pic with a blue sky showing. Much better than that, eh?

A Final Note: If you are making a catwalk, you're probably interested in the model walk. This is most often found on Shaklin's Model Walk flamingo, and will make your sim strut in an interesting, fashionable way when they walk. However, sim bodies do not always move like human bodies... And there is a part of one of the walks that, for some reason, people take pictures of.

Note the pose in the picture to the right.

The human body does not move like that. The skew of the belly vs. body, especially in meshes that have a slimmer waist to hip ratio, looks alien and will totally ruin any attempt at sexyness, feminine beauty, or aesthetics you're going for.

Do not take pictures of that part of the model walk unless you're just shooting the upper torso, breasts and up.

PLEASE.

I beg you.

Thanks.