Review: Reel Expression Burlesque poses.

SarahTheRed — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:01:41 +0000

Reel Expression recently released several Burlesque-themed poses sets. I wanted to do these pose sets justice, really showing off their expressive quality (more on that later.) As I was playing with the poses, I decided to try my hand at setting up poses in an intimate, photable-type setting, using poseballs to set the poses where I wanted them. It’s a bit of work to get the poses to work all together, trying to visualize where and how each pose will interact with one another, but it was an interesting experiment — though certainly an area where I could use quite a bit more practice. It’s funny; you wouldn’t think slapping down a few poseballs would be so much work to align.

Moving on to the poses themselves. In this case, I’m considering the two Burlesque standing pose sets and one Burlesque sitting pose set from Reel Expressions. So, how does one evaluate a set of poses? For me, specific criteria: expression, naturalism, fit, mesh distortion, and value.

First, expression: does the pose express a certain mood? Is it sultry, or emo, or standoffish? I demand that my poses have expression. I want them to tell a story. You may have a perfect outfit and setting, but it’s really the pose that will tell the narrative — the narrative that helps to make a picture worth a thousand words.

Burlesque, in my mind, is about the contradiction between (...)
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