Digitized Anatomy/Outlines - Anyone got some?

Ace-Angel

Hey to all the good looking people of PC,

I was wondering if anyone knew of some decent resources from which to study basic outlines of objects, also known as Digitized Outlines.

An example of what I mean (for anatomy in this case):
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uy40HUmruwI/S92YAyGIVUI/AAAAAAAAAFU/JwE4pCPclwg/s400/Untitled-7.jpg

For a lack of better terms, it essentially takes the larger patterns of complex objects and boils them down to their 'basic' foundation of working design.

So my question is, anyone knows where I can find of these reference, most of the ones I find are less then stellar (EI: really small, wrong, etc).

Cheers!

xvampire

I love this one, it gives you not only outlines, but also geometry and simplified curves over anatomy

imagine fx anatomy

http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/storage/3/298954/IFZ01.cover.jpg
http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/storage/3/386983/IFZ07.cover.anatomy.jpg

you might need to learn how the outline seen in 3d space in many angles, being contracted, stretched, bended, etc in order to understand.

Ace-Angel

Oh nice, too bad they're only in paper form...or are they digitally purchasable?

xvampire

I think they have the digital version of imaginefx. but anatomy is kinda special edition so I don't know if its out there too ..

Ged

I have both of those imaginefx books, they are quite good! I also use mara3d app http://www.mara3d.com/ its a great way to look at the shapes from more angles

Ace-Angel

Aww man, Mara seems to be only for the IOS, and ImagineFX doesn't seem to have a Digital version of their Anatomy books (only physical, and the first issue is no longer in print).

Thanks guys for the posts. Anyone else got anymore resources like these? (Preferably free, or still in working conditions?)

Ged

I can always refer back to my "george bridgeman drawing from life" book if Im really stuck, he seems to break shapes down quite well although its still hard to picture some of it in 3D.

If you google search that book you might find it online somewhere or buy it if you want it.

Im not even a character artist or a pro anatomy person though so Im sure there is more or better resources out there!