What I’ve been up to….3

Trying to create four poses of wich there are two pairs of mirrored poses is quite a challenge and I’m not very pleased with the results.

With the first original pose I had created it was very easy to re-create it’s mirror with the symmetry function in Poser. Dawn, being very versatile due to her extra body segments, needs some tweaking after that. You have to adjust her Abdomen 2, Chest 2, Neck 2 and her Pelvis by hand. I usually have to mirror only on the side-side & twist rotation axis. Plus you have to switch her feet manually.

But then I wanted to re-create the original pose on the other chairs aswell. Rotating the figure 45° and then mirror that pose to the opposite side. That didn’t quite work out that way.

Not as symmetrical as I had created the first 2 poses. East and West is easy, mirroring North and South not so much.

It doesn’t look so bad facing the front but you can allready see the chairs are not aligned, at least to my satisfaction and when you see the group from another viewpoint you get a clearer picture.

I can’t get it right and it is getting on my nerves. Having tried these and some of the other poses, I have abandoned the idea of having the same pose 4 times for all four chairs. I will mirror each pose but some of them will be mirrored on the same chair while others will be mirrored to the opposite chair. Simple because the pose mirrors only from East to West and not from North to South.

Like this pose where the torso is facing sideways and the legs are facing towards the table. For me to mirror this pose I would use the symmetry function, switching left & right creating it’s mirror from East to West. But having it position it on the opposite chair, facing the legs towards the table, it would also have to turn from North to South. That I would have to do manually and it just is to much of a pain to get it just right.

So while Dawn & friends are trying to look for my mathematical skills, I’ll create some new poses in the meantime and some people have suggested some great idea’s for poses on and around a Patio-Set.
If any of you have some suggestions, please leave them in your comment.

Greetz
Pommerlis