Ill try and help you with the posing section, I took your first potential posing replay and tried to make a sort of decent pose in it. The basics for balancing your tori into a pose ( as i encountered them trough the game ) for me are:
losing speed ( or transforming direction of speed into the exsact pose wanted )
can be done by relaxing allot
and getting grip with your feet ( or hands )
relaxing your feet while contacting the floor
all the rest is allot of editing,
Also Aikido gravity is allot easier to pose in because your weight really gets pushed into the ground so you can hold your bodycontracted and extended on some points and you will not twirl of the ground like a leaf, judo gravity on the other hand requires allot of relaxing the limbs that contact the ground, not moving the arms to much ( or only horizontally ) and bending lumbar to try and get your upper body mass directly on top of your waist in a straight vertical line, when you have the ass spread so that on the ground your feet are just a little wider apart then your "ass = wide" you have the perfect position to pose, only i find that with judo gravity, relaxing shoulders or chest and elbows can really help not only posing your body and balancing it to also add some life to your tori because its still slightly moving.
though i editted your replay in a crappy way ( posing can take a long time to perfect sometimes ) i started with taking the speed out of your twirl by relaxing the shoulder and chest and bend the lumbar wich together makes it so you land face first ( frontal ) wich looks more realistic ( i think ) the second problem was that because of the twirl and the taking the speed out of it, the ground already was closer so i had to pull in the leg that would end up in front so i could catch up with the spin and put it on the ground in front of me to make the spin stop "allmost" completely, with the speed gone and the feet gripping the ground you can focus on the upper body and how you can twitch and turn it without causing you to move to much again or lose your grip, in this case i twisted yur tori's back so it would at least be above the legs and not beside it. It immediatly turn in a difficult pose because im leaning your tori on his right leg carrying allmost all the weight of the torso.
PS: This is not a nice pose, its not perfect at all, i just tried to give some insight and tips wich might help your further, it was in no way to meant to offend your knowledge about the game or anything :P ( just in case you think this description is ludacris )
I have to make diner now but ill try and make a nicer pose wich will maybe give you some insight*
Edit: i just realized i have a good pose replay, in wich you can see that speed slowly leaving the limbs and the counter balance of limb weight. Hope some of this helped.
Last edited by Squiziph; Oct 22, 2009 at 05:12 PM.