MaxCarna wrote:I personally think that poses and expressions are bad ways to spend money, because you can achieve any pose or expressions on Pose tab. You can take a several minutes in the first time, but then is just save as pose preset and reuse latter
While I totally agree that expression presets are a waste of money, poses presets are not. I personally have a lot of pose presets because they are very useful. But I tend to avoid in rendering with the preset pose without retouching it.
See, most of the guys who make the preset poses products actually spend a lot of time looking for real model poses in fashion magazines, or something like that. Those sexy flashing poses are sexy for one reason. They are studied to be appealing to the eye. You don't usually see the people on the street or at your office posing like that. That's why, if I was to pose a model from scratch I would have to do some investigative work to make the pose look awesome and not... boring. And here the presets enter! That's at least 20 or 30 minutes I save with just one click. Then, I repose the arms, the feet, the hands to my convenience (a great deal of presets have small flaws you'll have to manually correct).
But while the pose presets, inspired from Fashion modeling,are purposely exaggerated and appealing to the eye, the Expression presets are exaggerated and NOT appealing to the eye. I have very few Expression presets and I use them for one thing only: to Zero the character expressions with one click only, to work on a new expression.