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just started xiv, found your blog, any suggestions or advice for gposing? need to get photos of my fool :D

hey!!! it's really not too hard to pick up, it can be a little weird at first to get used to for sure but practice makes perfect!

- if you're on desktop, i highly recommend brio + ktisis + anamnesis. vanilla/console gposers exist (and they are VERY talented) but it will be more challenging and you won't be able to do things like spawn in npcs or do nsfw. for nsfw shots, you'll want to have a look at some body mods as well! regardless, console gposing exists, you'll just need to take shots with npcs/characters that are actually in front of you instead of spawning them. essentially you won't be able to act with metaphorical godmode on in your gposes. - you can do an emote out of gpose, then go into gpose and your character will do that emote. - consume others' work and see what you like/dislike about other people's gposes! i follow the gposers tag on bluesky and i'm sure there's other places you can look. i think vanillagposers on bsky is also a tag. think about what you'd like to do in your own poses, and think about the things you wouldn't like to do. ie lots of photoshop editing or a more minimal look; zoomed in shots versus zoomed out; storytelling through multiple gposes, like fake cutscenes, versus simple glam shots. - you can download poses on desktop and experiment with pre-made poses before you try and do your own! - experiment with multiple emotes! dote can be used to hold another character's chin, for example; malevolence can be used to do a "piggy back" sort of gpose. - someone made a dialogue box generator here and it can be used to create fake cutscenes in your gposes! - you don't need a reshade to make your gposes look colorful. you can select the filters "bright 1-4" and experiment with those within the actual gpose engine. you can also change the depth of field to create different focus shots, and manually change the brightness within gpose, all without mods! - even if you choose not to photoshop your poses, you can still make them look a bit better for free. i use photopea (free ps alternative) and mess around with blur for a lot of my poses; box blur, gaussian blur, or motion blur on low settings can cover up any artifacting or sharp edges in your pose. some people even use photoshop to edit out clipping, though i'm a bit too lazy for that lol. - most importantly make the content YOU want to make and what is fun for you!

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"oh, stop laughing, you! it's the only umbrella i have!" a rained out date.

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in an alternate universe.

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sleepover selfies.

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hot substitute teacher woes studium au with some friends' ocs.

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reunited.

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god, that was strange, to see you again

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inspired by a meme i saw on reddit about rabbit characters lowering their ears when they're being flirty.

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after a long day.

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in another life. with a friend's oc, sheri!

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when you're observing me, who do you think i'm observing?

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"...i lived a life far more comfortable and luxurious than any other bastard in garlemald, or perhaps the world. my days were full of lessons on the empire, and my evenings were full of my family's laughter, conversations above my head that i did not--could not--fully understand. i was meant to be studying, but oft neglected my textbooks to openly eavesdrop, something i was never reprimanded for. i loved nothing more than to watch my aunts--by choice, if not by blood--and my mother together: always laughing, or scheming some plot, or sharing some tantalizing gossip about the other ladies at court that eluded me. my father, supposedly above such a thing as court gossip, would often jump in with a scathing comment once they'd settled, and they'd all dissolve into tittering laughter again. how little i appreciated my family then. the halcyon days of my childhood were the happiest i had ever seen my father, and i took it for granted, as all children are wont to do. after all, i knew nothing else from my royal father but his stern kindnesses, his affectionate lessons on the throne (what was to be my birthright, so he claimed). he rarely smiled, but neither did he send away those he claimed to frustrate him so. i learned from a young age that my father's annoyance was a rather elaborate performance--if we had truly been a nuisance to him in his private study, he'd have ordered us all out, voice sharp as tacks. he did not. i wonder if we were a comfort to him under the pressure of his obligations, as my wife and son are to me now. i wonder if he is lonely in his study, now that my mother is dead and my aunts are scattered to the wind." - from the diary of lucius yae galvus, archived in a private collection.

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Teary Eyes Posing Tutorial

So I've been desperate to replicate the teary eye effect we see in cutscenes (mostly Tataru unleashing her LB3 on WoLs) and all similar questions I've seen on the crime tool discords are met with the same "can't be done, photoshop it" line of answers if any. So if you have zero photoshopping skills like me and want a fix of that sweet angst, here's a quick way to fake it in-game directly while gposing:

(Requires very basic Anamnesis or Brio experience)

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(You might want this to be the last step after you're done posing your character, since you'll be dealing with a hand prop.)

Equip this prop to both your main and offhand, by typing in the numbers: 9072, 1, 1. and click below them to "show weapon."

2. Now since they're tiny little droplets, they'll be hard to see, so I suggest you click on the weapon bone in your preferred posing mode and scale them up to around 5. Raising the z value (3rd one) slightly higher makes the droplets rounder and easier to work with. And if the size doesn't change for some reason, try scaling the root or abdomen bone instead of the weapon bone.

3. Shove that thing up your eye (lovingly). It helps if you rotate each droplet sideways so that its shape matches that of your eye. (smaller tip toward your inner eye corner, large tip toward the outer corner)

4. Now the fun part! You can do this several ways: If you want the full-on LB3-level brimming-with-tears effect like Tataru's, just keep tweaking the scale of the droplet til it's about the size of your eye and position it just over the whole eye, tweaking and rotating until it fits perfectly inside your eyelids without clipping out, et voila.

The LB2 level: Another (more realistic?) way would be to lower the droplets to have them "well up" around your lower eyelids:

LB1 level: Or you can simply lay the droplets at their original size at the outer corners of your eyes for a "threatening to turn on the waterworks but can be assuaged with cake" effect

Bonus tips for extra realism:

- As with most other things, best to avoid symmetry

- Mix & match shapes & sizes

- The more dramatic your lighting the more dramatic they'll look

If you try this please show me. Angst gives me life thankyou.

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family photos with your uncle who thinks he's funny.

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"i'll be back to fix your toy boat up soon, captain." "…aye. stay out of trouble in tural, then."

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when you look at me like that, my darling, what did you expect? i'd probably still adore you with your hands around my neck or i did last time i checked lightwarden au (2 / ?).

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eorzea's most wanted.