Human cross sections

Submitted by MoonUnit on
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i find working with cross sections much easier then just trying to get things like proportions right off the top of my head, does anyone know where i can get some cross sections for a human male. I dont mean a digi photo i mean like composed of basic lines without shading and so on (though im not really picky, basicly what i mean is a simple illustration). Once i have a body like that set up i could allways play around with it anyway.

So yeah anyone know where i can find some? (with a head/face would be good) [:I] any help would be appreciated

Submitted by davidcoen on Sun, 07/12/03 - 9:57 AM Permalink

when i was excited about writing a voxel renderer i got a password for the visable human project (sliced up human at 0.25mm intervals ) however the images where very large and only downloaded the head...(800mb) though perhaps this is much greater accuracy than you need....

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sun, 07/12/03 - 10:08 AM Permalink

yeah sounds like a bit of a overkill, thanks codyalay, thats the kinda thing i want, though itd be better if i could get one with with arms at 90 degrees

Submitted by codyalday on Mon, 08/12/03 - 12:22 AM Permalink

Thats what we are here for, to help each other out, also call me Cody if you want.

Submitted by souri on Mon, 08/12/03 - 6:52 PM Permalink

As Aven mentioned, www.fineart.sk is one of the best places for reference images (human anatomy, head, hands, feet, whole range of animal types etc). Another excellant place is www.correct-proportion.com . It shouldn't matter if it's scanned or line art - you should be able to use either the same way. You can simply open up photoshop and do a quick outline with scanned references yourself to make it easier. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Submitted by Aven on Mon, 08/12/03 - 7:09 PM Permalink

If you are after pics for modelling reference (ie arms at straight angles), then www.3d.sk is a VERY good site. They just added in VISA capabilities, so I will join up soon. If you go to the 'Site Map' area though, you can access all the pics in small thumbnail format.

Souri, is there anyway that a new forum could be set up, just for Reference links? That way people don't have to search all over the forums to find links like these. I know that a few of these have been mentioned before.

Submitted by souri on Mon, 08/12/03 - 8:37 PM Permalink

I've made your 3d tutorials/links thread sticky, so anyone can post useful links there.

Sorry, should have read the topic. Cross sections for bodies? They're pretty rare to find. I think cross sections are more useful if you want to model something like cars. For human bodies, I'd prefer the common way of doing it all out of cylinders.

Submitted by jwalduck on Wed, 10/12/03 - 8:38 PM Permalink

The images in the tut linked to by codyalday come from a book called "Figure Drawing for all it is worth" by Andrew Loomis. You can download a PDF of it from here http://saveloomis.org

Its worth the download. It has the same same front/back/side view for the ideal woman and a lot of other good fundamental stuff.

Posted by MoonUnit on
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i find working with cross sections much easier then just trying to get things like proportions right off the top of my head, does anyone know where i can get some cross sections for a human male. I dont mean a digi photo i mean like composed of basic lines without shading and so on (though im not really picky, basicly what i mean is a simple illustration). Once i have a body like that set up i could allways play around with it anyway.

So yeah anyone know where i can find some? (with a head/face would be good) [:I] any help would be appreciated

Submitted by davidcoen on Sun, 07/12/03 - 9:57 AM Permalink

when i was excited about writing a voxel renderer i got a password for the visable human project (sliced up human at 0.25mm intervals ) however the images where very large and only downloaded the head...(800mb) though perhaps this is much greater accuracy than you need....

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sun, 07/12/03 - 10:08 AM Permalink

yeah sounds like a bit of a overkill, thanks codyalay, thats the kinda thing i want, though itd be better if i could get one with with arms at 90 degrees

Submitted by codyalday on Mon, 08/12/03 - 12:22 AM Permalink

Thats what we are here for, to help each other out, also call me Cody if you want.

Submitted by souri on Mon, 08/12/03 - 6:52 PM Permalink

As Aven mentioned, www.fineart.sk is one of the best places for reference images (human anatomy, head, hands, feet, whole range of animal types etc). Another excellant place is www.correct-proportion.com . It shouldn't matter if it's scanned or line art - you should be able to use either the same way. You can simply open up photoshop and do a quick outline with scanned references yourself to make it easier. Shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

Submitted by Aven on Mon, 08/12/03 - 7:09 PM Permalink

If you are after pics for modelling reference (ie arms at straight angles), then www.3d.sk is a VERY good site. They just added in VISA capabilities, so I will join up soon. If you go to the 'Site Map' area though, you can access all the pics in small thumbnail format.

Souri, is there anyway that a new forum could be set up, just for Reference links? That way people don't have to search all over the forums to find links like these. I know that a few of these have been mentioned before.

Submitted by souri on Mon, 08/12/03 - 8:37 PM Permalink

I've made your 3d tutorials/links thread sticky, so anyone can post useful links there.

Sorry, should have read the topic. Cross sections for bodies? They're pretty rare to find. I think cross sections are more useful if you want to model something like cars. For human bodies, I'd prefer the common way of doing it all out of cylinders.

Submitted by jwalduck on Wed, 10/12/03 - 8:38 PM Permalink

The images in the tut linked to by codyalday come from a book called "Figure Drawing for all it is worth" by Andrew Loomis. You can download a PDF of it from here http://saveloomis.org

Its worth the download. It has the same same front/back/side view for the ideal woman and a lot of other good fundamental stuff.