Human Anatomy Reference model, what shall I buy?

littleclaude

Hi Guys,

What human body model shall I get for Human Anatomy reference, what is everyone using in the industry these days? Fairly large would be good, maybe 50-60cm.

I would really like a split body like the one below but might get two models if there is one with outer muscle to core muscles as well?

And I would like a Planar model for drawing and lighting ref as well. Suggestions and link a link to the website would be really appreciated.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1794375019/3dtotal-anatomical-collection-5-new-male-reference

Steve Schulze

Anatomy Tools has the split ecorche models, though they're not exactly cheap.
http://www.anatomytools.com/male-figures-c6.php

Mask_Salesman

Last I heard Grassetti was putting the Ecorche from his gumroad tuts into print. Not sure on dates yet tho.

https://grassetti.wordpress.com/ecorche-statue/

dimosM

I would also suggest the anatomytools.
There is also Scott Eaton's model, although it's not available yet.
http://www.scott-eaton.com/2014/eaton-houdon-ecorche

erroldynamic

I've got the female from 3D Total, it was from their first Kickstarter for it. Not bad quality for the price, and there doesn't seem to be any funky issues with it. I also have this one, also form a Kickstarter project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2000644001/the-male-planar-statue

The quality on this one is super good and is half planar, but some of the planes are kinda complex and confuse me a bit. The interchangeable heads are awesome though and include planar, skull, flesh, creature...

RN

I wonder if there's an action figure with accurate proportion and skin surface detail, like a superhero figure, that could be used as a poor-man's anatomy reference (although "superhero" and "accurate" are contradictory terms).
If it's articulated, it could even replace that wooden mannequin used for figure drawing.

jfitch

I got one of these dudes with the kickstarter package, seems like anatomy tools are doing a very similar thing.

If you really want one on your desk its worth it, but if you can live with photo reference (though, even if you're using a figure you should still have photo ref) there's plenty out there, even of the models themselves. Scan data is great too. I'd highly recommend Grasetti's ecroche as well.

Chiffy

erroldynamic wrote: »

I've got the female from 3D Total, it was from their first Kickstarter for it. Not bad quality for the price, and there doesn't seem to be any funky issues with it. I also have this one, also form a Kickstarter project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2000644001/the-male-planar-statue

The quality on this one is super good and is half planar, but some of the planes are kinda complex and confuse me a bit. The interchangeable heads are awesome though and include planar, skull, flesh, creature...

I've got both the male and female, and I agree that the quality isn't bad for them, probably one of the best bets for affordability. That interchangeable heads kickstarter looks awesome though.

One thing to note, 3Dtotal has a whole new set of anatomy figures that were kickstarted succesfully and are coming out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1794375019/3dtotal-anatomical-collection-5-new-male-reference . They include the male/female planar figures, escorche, full biosuit, half-and-half biosuit etc. Along with the other options mentioned, it might be best just to wait.