def ready_arguments(fname_or_dict):
    import numpy as np
    import pickle
    import chumpy as ch
    from chumpy.ch import MatVecMult
    from smpl.native.webuser.posemapper import posemap

    if not isinstance(fname_or_dict, dict):
        dd = pickle.load(open(fname_or_dict, 'rb'), encoding='latin1')
        # dd = pickle.load(open(fname_or_dict, 'rb'))
    else:
        dd = fname_or_dict

    want_shapemodel = 'shapedirs' in dd
    nposeparms = dd['kintree_table'].shape[1] * 3

    if 'trans' not in dd:
        dd['trans'] = np.zeros(3)
    if 'pose' not in dd:
        dd['pose'] = np.zeros(nposeparms)
    if 'shapedirs' in dd and 'betas' not in dd:
        dd['betas'] = np.zeros(dd['shapedirs'].shape[-1])

    for s in ['v_template', 'weights', 'posedirs', 'pose', 'trans', 'shapedirs', 'betas', 'J']:
        if (s in dd) and not hasattr(dd[s], 'dterms'):
            dd[s] = ch.array(dd[s])

    if want_shapemodel:
        dd['v_shaped'] = dd['shapedirs'].dot(dd['betas']) + dd['v_template']
        v_shaped = dd['v_shaped']
        J_tmpx = MatVecMult(dd['J_regressor'], v_shaped[:, 0])
        J_tmpy = MatVecMult(dd['J_regressor'], v_shaped[:, 1])
        J_tmpz = MatVecMult(dd['J_regressor'], v_shaped[:, 2])
        dd['J'] = ch.vstack((J_tmpx, J_tmpy, J_tmpz)).T
        dd['v_posed'] = v_shaped + dd['posedirs'].dot(posemap(dd['bs_type'])(dd['pose']))
    else:
        dd['v_posed'] = dd['v_template'] + dd['posedirs'].dot(posemap(dd['bs_type'])(dd['pose']))

    return dd