¶ Anime Full-Body Pose Tags

See how 12 Danbooru full-body pose and gesture tags change the same anime girl, from curtsey and bowing to heart arms and kamina pose, plus 11 gestures for two or three people, such as high five and heart hands duo, 33 floor poses, from seiza and lotus position to on side and legs up, and 53 standing and whole-body postures, such as contrapposto, jumping and handstand. Within each group, every picture is made with the same prompt, seed and settings on Nova Anime v18. Only one tag changes.

Each group starts with a picture without a tag, for comparison; the tags follow from A to Z. Copy a tag to use it in your own prompt, or choose Try to open MonAI with that picture's full prompt and settings. Select a picture to see it full size.

Jump ahead to:

• How the pictures were made
• Where the tags come from

¶ How the pictures were made

Each prompt puts one tag into a base prompt. The full-body poses use:

1girl, [tag], short hair, dark hair, light blue shirt, black pleated skirt, white sneakers, full body, facing viewer, white background

The full-body framing shows the whole pose, and the skirt and sneakers keep the outfit the same in every picture. Every prompt ends with the Nova Anime v18 quality tags:

masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, absurdres

Every picture uses the same negative prompt:

photorealistic, realistic, 3d, glitch, deformed, ugly, disfigured, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, displeasing, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), signature, watermark, bad AI generated

• Model: Nova Anime v18
• Size: 768 × 960
• Steps: 20
• Guidance scale (CFG): 4.5
• Sampler: Euler a
• Seed: 8352, except distress hand signal: 3591

The gestures for two or three people use the same prompt with 2girls in place of 1girl, and heart hands trio uses 3girls with its tag weighted as (heart hands trio:1.2). Their seed is also 8352, except heart hands trio (3591), palm-fist greeting (1207) and a second picture each of noogie and carry me (3591).

The standing and whole-body postures use denim shorts and white sneakers:

1girl, [tag], short hair, dark hair, light blue shirt, denim shorts, white sneakers, full body, white background

Their seed is 8352, except squatting, contrapposto, standing on one leg, crucifixion, upside-down, handstand and headstand (2864) and spread eagle position (7206). watson cross (8715) uses the floor-pose prompt without shoes. sway back is weighted, as (sway back:1.2). headstand is also shown at seed 3710, and stretching and fighting stance at both 8352 and 2864, to compare two results. Some tags are taken literally: crucifixion draws a wooden cross and scorpion pose adds a scorpion tail.

The floor poses use the same prompt without shoes so the legs and feet show:

1girl, [tag], short hair, dark hair, light blue shirt, denim shorts, full body, white background

Their seed is 5506, except all fours (8352). A few floor poses still show shoes, and several sitting tags look alike: Nova Anime v18 draws lotus position, indian style and crossed ankles as easy cross-legged sitting.

Each tag was rendered once. Some tags are taken literally: air guitar draws a real guitar and heart tail and heart tail duo add heart-shaped tails. noogie and pinky swear come out loosely: a friendly hold rather than a noogie, and raised pinkies that don't quite link. With another prompt, seed or model, a pose can look different.

¶ Where the tags come from

The floor poses and the standing and whole-body postures come from the one-person posture groups of TagExplorer, which follow Danbooru's posture tag group. The other tag names come from Danbooru's gestures tag group: the full-body poses, plus the gestures that TagExplorer shows with a full-body prompt. Tags that Nova Anime v18 didn't draw as the pose in our tests are left off: saturday night fever, orchid fingers and toe-point. For two or more people, heart hands quartet (Nova draws three girls), star hands and pointing spider-man (meme) are left off too. Hand gestures have their own page, Anime Hand Gesture Tags.

For more on anime prompts, see Anime Face Tags, Anime Hair Tags, Anime Prompting and the Illustrious Prompt Guide.