#TSOS asks

[the-story-of-snow]

hey, are you okay?

you haven’t posted in awhile

Yes, I'm alright, I've just been hit with writers block on this next chapter and is is killing me!

[theserenadeofshadows]

Hi! Hope you're doing well! It was super cool to see your pose-making process sped up like that! Very satisfying and I love seeing other pose-makers process. You did such a great job with the hands especially!! (I know some people hate posing hands, but even though they can be hard, I find them fun, and I would ALWAYS rather deal with hands and limbs than faical expressions. I can NOT do facial expressions.) Anyways, I have a quick question though: The video was about 11 minutes, but how long did it take you in real-time? I'm always curious how long it takes people to make a full posepack.

Also, this may seem a bit weird and random coming out of the blue, but if you've never heard of PureRef, it's a program that lets you have an "always on top" window where you can copy/paste reference images and then you don't have to tab back and forth between your browser and blender. You can make the window any size you want and put it anywhere on your screen, too.

(Even if you don't end up using it when you aren't recording, it would eliminate the flashing in your videos if you plan to make more of them. Also lets the video viewers get a better look at the reference image(s).)

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I'm telling you what to do or anything. Just wanted to tell you about a really useful little program. (It's free, btw.)

okay, that's all. Sorry for rambling.

Hi! Oh my gosh, thank you so much! And I kinda like it to pose hands, but they take up a lot of time, glad to have found someone who finds them fun as well ❤️

I had to check it, but the recordings say it took 212 minutes, which would be around 3,5 hours. This didn't include taking the screenshots or editing the previews and I did some of screen edits too after testing them in game (you can see me making puffed cheeks for the holding face pose, but the male Sim didn't hold the female's face in the end but I forgot to remove the puffed cheeks - oops). I have a fun one coming up which took around 17 hours 😂😂

And weird and random is always be welcome, but luckily it is very in context for the speedposing you talked about 🥰 And thank you so much! That would be perfect for when I have one single reference or have them prepared in advance 💪 I tend to work a little bit chaotically and like to scroll Pinterest or Google for in the moment inspiration 🙈

I would like to eliminate or limit the flashing in the videos, so I will look into this, because I see a possibility of cutting out the flashes by having multiple changing references in Blender instead.

No apologies needed, it didn't come across like that, thank you for thinking with me on how to decrease the flashes and sharing the possible sollutions!