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For anyone who wants a free pose-able human reference for drawing
The other day I came across this awesome program by accident (I don’t even remember what I was actually searching for, but on the several times I’ve looked for a program like this I’ve had no luck). It’s cool enough that I wanted to share it.
It’s called DesignDoll (website here) and it’s a program that lets you shape and pose a human figure pretty much however you want.
There’s a trial version with no expiration date that can be downloaded for free, as well as the “pro license” version priced at $79. I’ve only had the free version for two days so far, so I’m not an expert and I haven’t figured out all of the features yet, but I’ve got the basics down. The website’s tutorials are actually pretty helpful for the basics, as well.
Here’s the page for download, which has a list of the features available in both versions.
There are three features the free version doesn’t have:
Can’t save OBJ files for export
Can’t download models and poses from Doll Atelier (a sharing site for users; note that the site is in Japanese, though)
It can’t load saved files
The third one means that if you make a pose, save it, and close the program, you can’t load that pose/modified model later. You have to start with the default model. I found that out when I tried to load a file from the day before (this is why reading is important…). Whether saving your modifications (and downloading models and poses) is worth $80 is up to you.
But, the default model is pretty nice and honestly if all you’re looking for is a basic pose reference it should work fairly well as it is. Here’s what it looks like:
There’s a pose tag that lets you drag each joint into place and rotate body parts. The torso and waist can be twisted separately, and it seems like everything pretty much follows the range of movement it would have on an actual human.
Even the entire shoulder area is actually movable along with the joint! See, like how the scapular area of the back raises with the arm:
The morphing tag is one of the coolest features, in my opinion. It lets you pick and choose from a library of pre-set forms for the head, chest, arms, legs, etc. It has some more realistic body shapes in addition to more anime-like ones. Don’t like the options there? Mix a few to get what you want! Each option has a slider that lets you blend as much or as little as you want into the design.
So you, too, can create beautiful things like kawaii Muscle-chan!!
The scale tag lets you mess with the proportions and connection points of different joints. This feature combined with the morphing feature not only allows more body shape variations, but it also means that you can do things like make a more digitigrade model if you want. (The feet only have an ankle joint, but for regular human poses that’s all that you really need, so whatever.)
Or you can make a weird chubby alien-like thing with giant hands and balloon tiddies if that’s more your thing.
The ability to pose hands to the extent it allows is far more than I could have hoped for from a free program. Seriously, you can change the position of each finger joint individually, as well as how spread out the fingers are from each other. Each crease on the diagram below is a point of movement, and the circles are for spread between fingers.
And to make it a bit more convenient, there’s a library of pre-set hand poses you can pick from as well, and then change the pose from that if you like.
In both versions, you can also import OBJ files from other places for the model to hold, like if you wanted to have them hold a sword or something.
Basically, this program is awesome and free and you should totally check it out if you want a good program for creating pose references.
I just wanted to add a little more to this. If you have trouble figuring out how light sources work in your drawings this also allows you to choose where to have a light source.
That shaded ball on the left is your light source. You can see how moving the point changed the shadow cast.
Oh and all those other nifty looking things in that bottom bar there, yeah it’s what you think. You can change the model color to one of these presets or even customize your own palette.
Plus for all you lovely people who want something a little more simplified to use as a pose reference
You can turn your model into the classic wire frame.
title: Now loading last save...
Words: 940
fandom: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
pairing: MikoChiyo
summary:
Day 6: Camping / Gaming
Day 7: Au / Free day
Mikoshiba Mikoto, avid dating sim player and general all rounder student by day, God of Conquest by night. No girl is immune to his skills.
2 of my favorite romcoms, now in a quick digestible tablet.
Thank you to everyone who participated in MikoChiyo week this year! It was my first, and even with my awful schedule, I managed to finish on time. I might expand this later.
Fic under the cut!
“Mm, so. It looks like your newest target is that girl, with the ribbons.” A tall boy tapped the skull headpiece to stop the infernal ‘dorodoro’ it continued to spout. The redhead beside him sighed.
“How many more of these girls am I going to have to pursue until you can leave, Nozaki. I’m getting an extreme backlog of dating sims because of you!” He grumbled, fixing his collar. The tight fitting collar of the dead really chaffed when he really didn’t need it to.
“Well, the sooner we can get these souls collected, the faster we’ll get this collar off, Mikorin.” Nozaki mumbled, pulling on his see-through hagaramono to begin gathering the data on their newest target. Meanwhile, Mikorin had already pulled out his PV Lita, to continue his current game and target, a blonde girl with a white ribbon in her hair.
“Sakura Chiyo, age 16, first year, class 1-C.” Nozaki began analyzing the data in his hands. “She’s in the art club, and seems to often help out at the Drama Club too.”
“Hn. The quiet artist? Sounds boring.” Mikorin tapped another button, which ended up earning a chime from the game.
“That doesn’t mean that you should underestimate her. She could definitely surprise you.” They began to walk down the stairs, away from aforementioned girl. Mikorin just shrugged.
“Doubtful.”
--
Chiyo blinked as she looked up at the tall boy she had crashed into. Blushing profusely, she hurriedly began to collect her paints, apologizing for not seeing him.
“It’s fine. I should have also been watching where I was going.” He handed her the sketchpad that had fallen out of her reach, and that’s when she saw his face. He was super hot! Where did he even come from? After staring at him for longer than was appropriate, she took her paper from him. Bowing again, she hurried off. When she turned around, another boy, even taller than him, had poked his head out of the classroom.
She hoped she would see him again soon, he seemed nice.
--
That wish came true sooner than expected.
When Chiyo walked into the art classroom, she was met by stunning crimson. The boy from earlier was flirting with the club president while his friend was taking to someone off to the side.
“Whats going on?” She asked one of the other students in the room, noticing that the girls were all extremely giddy over the pretty boy, who in turn was beginning to flirt with every one of them.
“They’re doing a class assignment and they wanted to observe the club for a few days.”
“Which is honestly too bad, he’s super cute.” He looked over and gave them all a wide grin and a wink, to which all of them screamed in unison over the appeal. Chiyo however, didn’t. Sure he was very attractive, but he couldn’t be all that great if he seemed to play around--
“CUT!”
The lights flipped on and all the students began to relax. Down beneath what appears to be a stage, a short boy with a blue shirt was motioning to Mikorin.
“KATSURAGI KEIMA’S IS NOT SUPPOSED TO FLIRT, YOU DUMMY! His whole appeal is the fact that he is a mega nerd who comes off as aloof to everyone, except to his partner!” He climbed up onto the stage to whack Mikorin on the head. Mikorin winced and rubbed his head.
”Hori-senpai, he didn’t do a terrible job, did he?” Chiyo asked, wiping the bit of water that dribbled from her lips. She was overcome with fear when she saw how fast his neck swiveled to meet her gaze, almost like an owl.
“If Kashima hadn’t been out sick with a cold, we wouldn’t be in this situation, now would we?” He sighed, defeated.
“Sorry, sorry. The play’s opening night is in 2 weeks and Kashima being out is not helping rehearsals any. But thanks for volunteering for a read through you three, I appreciate it. Take ten everyone!” Chiyo bounced over to Mikorin, offering him a swig from her bottle.
“Thanks babe.” He gave her a flirtatious wink, and she gave him an unamused stare, waiting for-- He collapsed on the floor, embarrassed. Sighing, she pat his back.
“You were doing great. Then you had to open your mouth.”
“I couldn’t help it! It’s bad habit!”
“I wish you’d at least tone it down a bit. Seeing as we’re dating now and all. It makes me feel…jealous.” She mumbled the last part out, glancing away as her cheeks burned. Mikorin saw that and he hugged her tight.
“That is such a cute expression on you, Chiyocchi, I feel like I could confess to you my love all over again.” He gave her a smooch on the cheek, to which the drama club snickered about.
Meanwhile, seeing his chance, Nozaki began to furiously scribble onto the clipboard that housed a picture of Mamiko and Suzuki, in the exact same pose as the two lovebirds.
“This is definitely going to be the next bonus illustration.”
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