Hello hello! It’s a combination of face overlays/animation boxes! The one I use most of the time is Ndainye’s Smile for the Camera box. It contains loading screen and other various camera poses, and your Sims will always smile and look directly at the camera. 🙂 This is by far the easiest to use, and I love how natural the poses look.

To use other poses, I use face overlays (such as “smile”) from Decorgal’s Modeling Poses. After the face overlay is applied, I pick the pose or animation. I also recently found out that using a custom pose and then using one of Ndainye’s loading screen animations will keep the Sim in the original pose, but still allow them to smile and look at the camera. Useful for making sure all your Sims are looking in the same direction!

And of course, I can’t forget Jaydee’s animation boxes – play around with different animations and try pausing your Sim at different times to capture dynamic and natural-looking pictures!

As far as posing proficiency goes, I am almost as n00bish as you can be, but I can definitely say it gets easier the more you do it. 🙂 Hope this helps!