>>31
Just a word of advice… I give this to all modelers…
Do not follow that bad practice of rigging models in that pose. It is great for building a model, but when you skin it and rig it, put a 50% bend on all joints, then export that pose as the actual model for mapping and rigging.
As it is now, this is the problem you, and all other modelers face, when using a pose like that, to output a final product…
When you bend the arm down, from a full-extension (well 85% in that pose), you are stressing-out and stretching-out the mapping on the top of the shoulders. Causing harsh and un-natural angles. While, you compress the arm-pit, which is unseen, but making it have massive detail in one unseen pixel and horrible "folds" as you lower the arm.
The elbows, same thing. They are at 100% extension here. so you are going to remove detail of graphic-mapping and polygons, causing unnatural elbow angles, while the elbow-pit, will compress and have uber HD graphics and way more polygons than needed, causing more unnatural folding.
Placing it at 50% bend, will only slightly distort the elbow on compression bending, and will not cause folding on the extension or on compression, in the pit.
Same with breasts… for uni-models. It is sooo horrible when people make models with prefab breasts. They can only be made bigger, and can never be made to move naturally. You need to make a male-chest, with greater polygons, and make a deform to "create the breast growth", so you can use that same deform to "make them move naturally". If prefab to a set size, deforming will never undo shape negatively if you don't have the exact shape the "formed it" positively. (Eg, eyeballing perfect breast-implants.)
In that model, by the way, the breasts would have been "pulled-up" by the flesh of the arm and shoulder being raised. Thus, lowering it would cause that form to be unnatural. However, her breasts are the same with arms up or arms down. (Again, here is where the half-bent compPost too long. Click here to view the full text.