Does anyone use posemaniacs for studying poses?

realSean_Murphy 2015-12-13 23:39:58 UTC #1

I found out about the site earlier, it's in Japanese and is very useful, though I guess you can only turn the figure left and right, not up and down sadly. Anyway, you can view a CT view of the male human anatomy, well just the main body (Not the arm and legs though) If only there was a female anatomy that would be very useful.
Anyway, here's the link

efdvorsky 2015-12-13 23:51:49 UTC #2

/)O-O(\ yes yes this is good, thank you!

I actually use pixellovely for my practice. I used to have a human model for Blender and i could play with the camera to get the perspective....I should do that again.

somvi 2015-12-14 00:15:31 UTC #3

I use this free utility: http://terawell.net/terawell/?lang=en

The model has some nice physics applied to it so the pose is a bit more relaxed and organic.
Default is some generic animu girl but the appearance can easily be tweaked to whatever you need.

mariusthered 2015-12-14 00:45:39 UTC #4

I use poser 10 to make my comic all my cast has a character "understudy"

demthorshie 2015-12-14 01:32:06 UTC #5

Wow, I didn't use anything before o.o will definitely book mark all of these resource sites! Thanks for the share guys!

zelkats 2015-12-14 01:34:31 UTC #6

There's an English version of the site :3
http://www.posemaniacs.com

noctuidae 2015-12-14 05:34:38 UTC #7

I use quickposes even lets you specify if you want to practice athletes, hanging poses, exclusively hands, etc

realSean_Murphy 2015-12-14 05:48:29 UTC #8

Didn't notice, I thought it was only in Japanese.

guilhermecahu 2015-12-14 15:15:45 UTC #9

I used to use Quickposes and Pixelovely to study figure drawing but after sometime you can note the imagens keep on repeating over and over again. Despite them and Posemaniacs, do you guys know some other free online source for studying figure drawing?

nobebocafe 2015-12-14 16:45:10 UTC #10

Better than a free online.

Daz3d, a 3d program not very complicate to use (you don't need to modeling the figures from 0). If you want to study not only figures but answer that "how does he/se/it/they would look like with different lights (and shadows), angles, compositions, etc." it's a quite useful tool.

https://www.daz3d.com/

Kamikaze 2015-12-15 03:28:36 UTC #11

The team uses pixelovely for sure. While Posemaniacs has a lot of poses, after doing a few studies with them a bunch of us noticed our work was a lot more stiff and off in anatomy. The 3D model is great and I love the way you can see things from different perspectives, but the problem comes when...those are just poses, they're not people and in some of those poses the model's muscle 'skin' can stretch or look weird which makes anatomical drawing almost moot.

I did a muscle study in school with the help of Posemaniacs and got read the riot act for using it. Muscle placements were WAY off, not because I had drawn it incorrectly, but my reference had it's muscle/skin texture warped in the pose. When I showed my teacher he kinda put the fear of god into me on that. I referenced medical textbooks from there-on out.

While I definitely see the use of using posemaniacs to get the very basics of odd perspective etc, I do not use it for studies beyond that. When you can study from life, when you can't go for a photo instead of a 3D model. This is my personal way of doing it. Your milage may vary.

gremriel 2016-05-18 13:32:11 UTC #13

Not only does it do nice posing, but you can block out entire scenes by placing blocks in it. Also, it can import OBJ files that you can attach to parts of the body, and it then moves when you move the bodypart.

You can also switch to skeleton mode.