Figure Anatomy 17+

I was really excited when I stumbled across this app, and when I tried it out, even more so. The developers did a great job with the controls and this is the type of app, when fully developed, that could really speed up the professional illustrators workflow. Unfortunately the app is crippled by two things, a lack of available poses and a bad pricing model.

There are thousands of available pose references online, many for free. This tool is better that all of them in its ability to move the model freely, and adjust the lighting dynamically, as well as the focal length of the “camera”. This is incredibly useful! But unfortunately all of this is useless to me as there are not enough poses. This tool would need to contain a library of hundreds of poses before I could consider using it professionally. It should also have facial expressions and hand poses to be fully realized.

The UI could use some work as well, feels dated. Get rid of the textures, it just clutters things up. That’s a nitpick though.

Lastly, no one is going to pay $1 per pose. Get a huge catalog of poses then charge a subscription model for professionals, then have a light version for the tinkerers. Honestly there is a big opportunity being missed here. This could be an indispensable tool for professional illustrators.

Ironically, the free image is one of the best resolution of the images I have. Two of the three I’ve purchased of the female model are poor resolution (images #4 and #6). The images I’ve purchased of the male model seem fine, but the images I bought of the female model were a waste of money.

This is a pathetic excuse for a pose app. I thought I’d check it out but after just a few minutes I wanted to buy it even less than before. You only get a few models, no good poses, can’t pose them yourself so it’s worthless. Don’t buy!

To the developers this looks like it might be decent with another few months of development but if you actually want money from it it needs serious improvements because this is by far the worst app of this kind that I have found so far. That means there are free apps that are 100 times better. Why pay for this when I can get a free app with better looking models, more features and I can pose them myself. If those features are available then put them in the free version so a real artist like me can actually test and see if it something I want to buy. I might have considered paying if I could create custom poses and if the full color version of the models actually looked good. Also if the color ones had a nude option.