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Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists

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Why This Matters

SetPose is a free online 3D pose maker that provides artists with customizable mannequins and scene settings, enhancing their ability to practice and improve figure drawing. Its flexibility and affordability make it a valuable tool for both beginners and professionals in the art community, bridging the gap between traditional mannequins and digital references.

Key Takeaways

SetPose: Free 3D Pose Maker — Mannequin Drawing Poses

Are you an artist looking for accurate, adjustable 3D pose references? SetPose is a free online pose maker and digital mannequin designed to help you practice drawing human poses and dynamic poses with ease. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced artist, using a pose reference tool can dramatically improve your understanding of anatomy, proportions, and movement.

Why use a 3D pose maker?

Drawing the human body from memory is challenging. Realistic figure drawing requires attention to proportions and the way perspective and light changes the way we view a figure. Traditional wooden mannequins offer limited pose options and detailed ones can be quite costly. SetPose offers a free and highly customizable online drawing mannequin to meet all your reference needs.

SetPose isn't just a mannequin in online form as it offers a lot more customization in terms of the models, but maybe even more importantly, the environment around the model.

After you have made your desired pose with the pose maker or picked one of the many preset poses, you can start to set the scene according to your wishes. Change the background color and adjust the light position to create a night setting, or change the camera FOV to create a more dynamic scene. After that, you can also pick one of the floor props to add to the scene, creating even more interesting visuals to work with.

How to use the SetPose pose maker

The SetPose scene always starts off with a basic model in the default pose. From there, in order to create your first pose, you can either start editing or pick one of the many preset poses in the panel on the right side of the screen. If you want to start with a different model such as the anime model, you can change it by clicking the selector in the scene menu on the right side of the screen.

Ballet arabesque pose preset

Creating your own pose

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