Garry's Mod Art
How to pose ragdolls in Garry's Mod
I've seen a ton of bad poses.
And I decided to give some advice
Now. How to pose with my lovable person skin.
Also, this is my first tutorial I've written in 3 years. So bear with me here.
Step One.
Pick up your spawned ragdoll with your physics gun by the torso and try to level him out pretty well with his knees slightly bending. Right click, and his torso is frozen.
Step Two.
Goto a side angle. You will notice something. Tuck his ass back in. If your knees are bent too much, then unfreeze the torso, make it higher, then tuck in his ass. Then straighten out his torso that that it is lined up. This is really ignored by some people. YOU MUST LINE UP THE TORSO WITH THE LOWER TORSO.
Step Three.
Position the head to where it's normal. This shouldn't be hard.
Also, make the knees slightly bent. To where it's realistic looking. Nobody stands without their knees bent.
Step Four.
Place the arms slightly out, not very much. Not enough to where it looks like he's trying to skateboard and not too little to where it looks like he's stuck his arms to his shirt. Place the dominate foot (if you're right handed, your right foot is the dominate foot) slightly in front of the other foot. Please note that I'm not left handed in real life.
If you did this all correctly, it should look pretty damn nice. In the picture I compare it to an NPC. Pretty close.
Editing the Pose in GIMP
Open the image in GIMP and run an anti-alias to clear up all the edges.
Now run a Color Balance manipulation to bring out the realism in your pose.
You should probably edit your lighting as follows
And you will get something like this.
