: Software that simulates a wooden drawing doll? I am learning to draw figures, and a wooden doll (pictured below) is a lot of help. But I'm having issues keeping a specific angle in regards

@Michele215

My 2 cents.

Besides the already mentioned, Daz3D, Poser and Design Doll there are 2 more I know:

Makehuman: www.makehuman.org/ which can be used in conjunction with Blender.

IClone www.reallusion.com/iclone/default.html
I use a lot Daz3D. It is free and a solid program. So that would be my first choice.

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@Jennifer810

In the realm of "Free" alternatives, two pop into my mind that I use:

Blender

A free 3d Rendering engine which Offers a variety of rendering and animation options for creating photos and movies.

EDIT: Since the original request was for the wooden mannequin, here's that exact model already done for you in blender for free: Wooden Mannequin - Rigged by jgilhutton. (The actual model doesn't come with the chair, that's an additional 3dmodel)



Daz3d

A free 3d rendering engine similar to Poser, but with a "premium" shop where you purchase models.

For either of these options, you should key in on the words "rigging", "rigged" or "fully rigged" models. Those models have all of the joints to act like the puppet, where you can move the joints and the model acts like it has a connected skeleton that can be animated.

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@Gail6891361

All 3D apps that I have used could do this. Most modern posing apps have have a much more elaborate model than that but many can also use a a classic wooden mannequin.

But perhaps of special interest is Poser 3D. Poser was originally meant for this purpose only (tough years of adding features means that's no longer just the case) there is a number of alternatives such as Design Doll which is free and pretty good.

But yes you could use any 3d app like Maya, 3ds MAX, Blender or sketchup. Models are pretty easy to find and skin. In less than 10 minutes of googling i found 20 or so different model files. And it takes about 20 minutes to make one (and making your own software is also not that hard good game dev starter project in fact)

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