Start with easy poses (like what I chose for this tutorial) and then work up to harder poses. But when you are first starting, this is a great tool to use for yourself so you can feel confident about what you’re doing. I still use them for guidelines, because no matter how good you are there is always room for improvement. I discovered that I could use a picture as a reference to help me pose my models. When I first started working with MMD, I had no idea what I was doing and I had a hard time making my models look natural. Let’s start with an introduction to why I (and a lot of other people) use reference images. Hey ya’ll! Over the years, I have been asked, so many times that it’s nearly uncountable, “Well how do you animate poses with a reference image, anyways?” Animating With Reference Images
