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.
Why reblog this? Because for more visual creators, this will be like the lumberjack discovering chainsaws. “Reblog to save lives” as the saying goes.
Exactly this! Sam is a forgiving person, and I think people take for granted that Sam should forgive even the worst offenders, without realizing how horrifying the real-life implications of that actually are. A survivor of assault does not owe his assaulter forgiveness. A survivor of torturer does not owe his tormentor forgiveness.
The sheer amount of hate out there for Sam defending himself from and expressing some long-repressed anger at his torturer of centuries (or more) astounds and disgusts me. It’s even more unsettling because of the clear double standards. Lucifer’s hate, violence, brutality, and rage are justified, but Sam’s attempts at self-protection are vilified.
I wonder if the same people who called Sam “backstabbing” used the same epithet for Lucifer when he forced Sam to endure visions of his own brutal torture and used them to convince Sam that God was communicating with him.
Did they call Lucifer a backstabber when he lured Sam down there and trapped him inside the makeshift Cage and immediately started in with the gross prison rape jokes? What about when he manipulated Sam and made him feel shame about himself, or when Sam’s firm “no” resulted in Lucifer physically attacking him? When he possessed Castiel and used Sam’s trust in Cas to stab his hand into Sam’s soul and try to kill him, did those people accuse Lucifer of “betrayal”?
Did they recoil in horror when Sam was forced to act as an intermediary for “god,” the being who didn’t deserve the faith of his followers, and Lucifer, the being who shredded Sam’s soul? Was it horrifying to them when Lucifer locked himself into Sam’s own bedroom to play out an immature tantrum?
Have they called Lucifer cruel and a traitor for raping Kelly Kline, bringing Sam back to life only so that he could use that life (and the threat of Sam’s death) against him and the people he loved?
People say Lucifer was on the path to redemption and deserved to see it through and pay his penance, but
that’s not true.
Redemption requires remorse, and Lucifer, the Prince of Lies, has not shown a jot of it. In fact, he has continued to laughingly torment Sam and glory in his fear.
I mean, let’s just—
penance noun:The performance of some act of self-mortification or the undergoing of some penalty as an expression of sorrow for sin or wrongdoing.
And how about—
redemption noun: an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
No, what we’ve seen on screen is a gross sympathy play, a faux-redemption. SPN is very good at taking characters who have done cruel things and then trying to excuse their actions with “oh, but he’s been hurt,” or “oh, but he’s a funny guy who deserves to be loved!”
They try to excuse the inexcusable and cry “Redemption!” when no attempts at redemption have been made.
I’m not going to say that there’s any person who can’t be redeemed, but people who are worthy of redemption are people who actually seek it, no matter the cost to themselves.
So, no. Lucifer does not deserve redemption. He does not deserve to have anyone hear him out. Instead of apologizing, he has lied, manipulated, and cast himself as a victim rather than the aggressor he has spent the last several millennia being.
In fact, he deserved more than a rather tame push to the chest and a, “Yeah, I’m not letting you into my home again.”
I WAS SO MAD AT THE END BUT THEN THEY WERE BOTH ON THE BOARD AND I
OH LOOK they both get on the GODDAM BOARD that would make too much sense wouldn’t it
“Cas, listen to me.”
“Dean-”
“No, hear me out. We may have only been together this short time, but Cas, you… you changed… everything about me.”
“Dean, I don’t think-”
“Lemme get this out. You know it’s hard for me to talk about this kinda shit anyway, and this water’s fucking freezing.”
“But Dean-”
“Damnit Cas, listen! My whole life till now has just been me and Sammy, and you you you just fucking breeze in here and-… and I don’t regret it.”
“Dean…”
“Any of it. Sam is safe on the boat with Jess. I could have been to, but I came back for you. Because… because you just make me so, so stupid!”
“Obviously.”
“Cas, I think somewhere in this whirlwind of crazy and classes and quite frankly some mind-blowing sex that I… that I’ve fallen in lo- wait what the fuck do you mean ‘obviously?’”
“Dean just get on the goddamn board there’s plenty of room.”
“…oh. I knew that.”
i love it. that art is amazing, this short fic is amazing i love everything about it
Jupiter Astrid James 