Poseit 12+

I used to use the original style wooden mannequins and have upgraded to the super flexible life like “action figures” for my 3D sculpting prep work. Now that I’ve found PoseIt I feel that going from a real world prop to the CG platform a much more smooth transition. Being able to pose the sculpt is extremely user friendly and highly intuitive. Importing the posed mannequin into Nomad Sculpt is a breeze and has me wishing the two applications could join forces and become one. If not than I’d love to import my own sculpts into PoseIt for the simplicity there in.

Sure there are a couple issues:
The most noteworthy is when I imported a test pose into Nomad the mannequin’s pose was mirrored on the X axis. Not sure if this was because of some thing I did but PoseIt does allow for flipping the pose which corrected this issue (an unnecessary extra step).

The least noteworthy is that over rotating certain parts cause a deformation in the mannequin’s other parts. For example, if rotate a hand beyond human capability the forearm compresses thinly rather than staying a solid structure like the wood it portrays.

Neither of these “issues” are reason enough not to purchase this application. I wouldn’t’ve paid for the Pro unlock upon thinking PoseIt was a waste. On the contrary, I quickly found myself highly impressed and quite happily paid to add free tax.

PoseIt has now become a permanent part of my creator’s tool kit.

I legit cannot get enough of this app. I do illustration and concept art, and I have the Pro version of this app. Being able to quickly create my own mannequins out of different parts and resize the pieces however I like, and then on top of that connect primitives to each part to add character specific shapes and features, and STILL be able to pose it all flawlessly. It's amazing. Bravo.

I gotta say too that the posing system is very cleverly designed. Switching between IK and FK feels like muscle memory now. Just a difference of dragging with 1 or 2 fingers. You clearly know what an artist would want, because of course you are an artist yourself, app designer. So thank you for releasing such a phenomenal tool like this to the public!

My only real criticism would be easily fixed in a patch, so I won't let this reflect on the score at all. But I have once or twice accidentally overwritten a scene when I meant to load one. I would ask for you to add maybe an "Are you sure?" popup if you select overwrite, just to give the user another chance in case they pressed the wrong button. Unless I haven't updated yet, and this is already fixed. If so, ignore what I said!

This app is a pretty mediocre posing tool, and there are many little things that make me averse to using this. First and foremost, pinching to zoom in/out has too little sensitivity while using one finger to move the camera has WAY too much sensitivity. The models look fine, I especially love the inclusion of the horse model, but the human models are severely lacking. The graphics of the models are also quite crunchy-looking due to there being no anti-alias in the graphics engine, which makes them not great to look at. I was also unpleasantly surprised to find the hands nor the feet are bendable in any way. Hands and feet should not be an after thought, especially considering this app has apparently been out for 12+ years? It just feels like all of the effort is put into unnecessary areas to make this app flashy and pretentious when, at the end of the day, this is a posing tool that does the bare minimum. If you’re looking for a posing app that will actually serve as better reference material for your art, you would be better off installing magic poser, because at least on that app you can pose every part of the model and moving the camera around is actually intuitive.