Human anatomy

[Guessmyname]

I've been trying to find reference pictures so I can model proportionally accurate humans for quite a while now, to no sucess.

What I'm after is a front, back and side view picture of the human anatomy for reference in wings3d. Then I can properly model the Imperial Guard and PDF etc etc with proper proportions (So they don't look like gassed-up stum-monkies. Bet no-one knows what one of those are. Good. Neither do I.)

[Peet]

http://www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com/
http://www.human-anatomy-for-artist.com/


^^ the free pictures are pretty helpful...google is your friend.


edit: I suppose I should add a disclaimer of sorts. If you're terrified of naked people, dont go on that site.

[KDR_11k]

http://www.fineart.sk/

[Weaver]

From here, nude free unless you count statues.
http://www.realcolorwheel.com/human.htm

[Das Bruce]

Hehe boobies.

Anyway... I'm sure I saw a documentary that examined beauty and actually narrowed it down to a proportionality constant between various features, anyone else see that?

[Maelstrom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Ratio

[SinbadEV]

I was going to post a link to tha golden ratio but couldn't find on the page where the rato related to the human body...

[AF]

1.69 something

In the perfect body, everything uses that ratio, for example, the joins in your finger, the bit between your palm and the first is 1.69 longer than the next bone along and so on to the finger tips. The closer to this ratio things appear, the more 'pretty' we itnerpret them as. The same is true of things like petals leaves hair styles, artwork etc......... and it's true of all living things not just humans.

[Peet]

Seems to me that number is the limit of the ratios between each number in the fibbonacci sequence.

[unpossible]

mmmm, musical
http://www.it.rit.edu/~jab/Fibo98/PGA-1.mov

funny things these numbers. that song reminds me of the ATI pipedreams techdemo

[FireCrack]

Seems to me that number is the limit of the ratios between each number in the fibbonacci sequence.

It is.

[mr sharpoblunto]

1.69 something

In the perfect body, everything uses that ratio, for example, the joins in your finger, the bit between your palm and the first is 1.69 longer than the next bone along and so on to the finger tips. The closer to this ratio things appear, the more 'pretty' we itnerpret them as. The same is true of things like petals leaves hair styles, artwork etc......... and it's true of all living things not just humans.

1.618 just to be pedantic Its also not just related to aesthetics, In many cases the golden section Is actually functionally useful, for example the distribution of brances about a plants stem typically follows the golden section as it allows for the greatest surface area of the plants leaves to be exposed to sunlight, while maintaining an even distribution of mass about the stem.