[Sarcastic] Tutorial: How to Get Figures to Sit in Hero Forge
This is very limited if you don't have pro, but I do cover the free versions of sitting, which sounds like something they'd charge someone for in the Outerworlds world.
...ummm... alrighty!
Let's get your minis from sad and standing to sitting in a chair and content!
For more, click below, also this doesn't cover making kitbash chairs as I am focusing on just sitting/getting the legs to look right.
Before we get to methods, I want to quickly cover one big red 'no'
Do not bend their torso to sit.
Do you bend your back halfway down to sit?
Cool, alright, you might want to avoid the feds because apparently you're some sort of hyper-flexible alien living among us, and frankly I'd just hope you'd avoid being put in some creepy prison for alien experiments.
I can show you how to depict humanoid/human sitting, though. We use joints to sit. Mainly the one at the top of the legs, in the hips.
I have found at least two pose references that have the character bent from the middle of the torso, and I have gotten my model, Dosia, to agree to demonstrate it instead of digging up the poses from the community page. (She's well compensated with physical therapy and weird-pose-reversal techniques. That is the reversal of weird poses, not a weird-pose reversal.)
I think I can see how people get to this point, they see a middle-ish single point and click the rotate button and move the character so the block/whatever is beneath the butt, and boom, sitting! Except it's just a kind of mangled back. So you can move the back, it's great for lots of poses, I'm just saying you don't want to have the character sitting by only bending the back, that's not how humans/humanoids with our skeletal shape sit. (Leaving space for those with alternate skeletal systems.)
Here's a little more on the joints, showing a highlighted figure for emphasis
Method 1: Sitting without paying for pro+ features!
The easiest way to get someone to sit is to use the 'ride' function as seen in the stage options.
Pictured: how to change the sitting pose in the chair, to sit with legs together instead of the default legs open.
There is one more free sitting option (unless you are being pedantic and are counting various sitting devices as options, in which case you can go count how many chairs/surfaces they can sit on and think about that. Yay.)
Notice something interesting about the sitting on the ground pose? The legs bend at the hip! Yep! No weird bent back in lieu of manipulating the hip joint/legs (like humans do)
It's a decent pose to start a lot of bent over or sitting poses where you want the backside defined, because the starting pose kind of preserves that. That's something to keep in mind if you don't want to spend hours fixing some kind of skirt, either kitbash it into place or start with it how you like it and move the rest of the body into the pose.
Method 2: Kitbashing (costs money for pro+)
The first is just bending the legs at the top of the legs and then bending the knees down, you'll get this, a version shown starting from standing pose.
The second image shows the backside of the image, as you can see, the backside is less defined as the backside is made to look 'right' when standing, gets changed to look like that when sitting. Showing this for comparison, so you can choose which you'd prefer for whatever pose you're doing.
To compare, here are the front and back of the same pose, but the starting pose was the 'sitting on the ground' pose shown above.
See? more defined backside, which is appropriate for poses where the backside may be more of a feature (your mileage may vary, just showing the difference here.)
An advantage of the sitting on ground pose also helps with poses like this, where the legs move a bit more than normal: the backside retains its shape and in this it isn't eaten by the pose. It looks more natural
This is the standing version of the same basic pose, Dosia here has been imported to an older upload of mine, and as you can see the butt is not really seen in the pose because of the chair. So it doesn't exactly matter if the starting point is sitting or standing. I used to start by standing by default because I didn't know the difference.
As a last note, please don't feel bad if you've ever bent the wrong part in your humanoid figures. It's ok, we all make mistakes. I don't have an extensive visual history of all of my hero forge mistakes, but trust me I have messed up a lot of basic stuff. In part, that's how we learn. Frankly I'm sure there are plenty between this blog and my deviantart, in case you wanna locate that sort of thing.
Be kind to yourself, learn from your mistakes, and keep making fun poses
