ArtPose Pro

It’s very useful and the pre made poses are nice. I know it hasn’t been updated in a while but could there be an option to extend the perspective grid to the horizon line instead of having it only visible within a limited area?

So many great suggestions are in these reviews. Please take a look and add them!

It is a great tool for quick reference for angles and perspective, it would be great if it could have a grid option to create a square grid on-top of the view so it is easier to draw.

I use this app for a lot and find it very useful for my work, but it's often difficult to adjust fine details because it's very hard to figure out where a touch motion will actually move the selected joint. This could be easily fixed by the addition of a "gizmo" tool like many other 3d posing apps have. I've found myself avoiding it lately for lack of this tool and am looking for an alternative, but would be happy to return if this could be fixed. I also have trouble with the presentation of preset poses. The poses themselves are great, but since there's no numbering or naming I frequently get lost when looking for a specific pose. The UI is... fine. Saving and loading poses is quite esoteric and I'm still not sure how it works. A decent three out of five.

I use this app all the time and the ability to make characters more muscular or thin is very helpful. The pre-set poses it comes with are epic and I use them all the time! The muscles and curves of the model body is very helpful and in just the past couple weeks I’ve improved my understanding of anatomy. Only flaw is that making your own poses is kind of hard but what can you expect on a 3D plain on a phone lol. More poses and possible customization of body models (like more fat ratios and making hips bigger or waist bigger without increasing the entire body fat everywhere and making an option for the male model to become bigger in fat vs muscle size compared to just adding muscle mass) would be super epic. I am very pleased with this app for a one time payment!

Sometime the option to move the entire body (not just parts) on the x and y axis is visible, and sometimes it’s not. I’m not sure how to recreate this issue. How are you supposed to move the entire model at once? I want two characters in the scene.

Great app as far as options but it can become tedious to set up a pose. Controls like Proko’s Skelly app would be so much more useful. The controls here are not very precise or intuitive.

Hi! I’ve been really enjoying your app but there’s just features and all that I feel like I’m missing in this app! I really wanna be able three or more models in one scene, It would help me a lot! But overall I’ve been enjoying the app

I bought the whole package when I first got my iPad. I wanted a good bodily reference app that allowed for both male/female figures and could alter the overall body shapes. Initially these apps did just that…the interface for body manipulation is VERY difficult, clunky but learnable. If all goes badly you just start fresh and try again. Annoying but it can be dealt with. However very quickly the biggest shortcoming of this app becomes apparent: the morphs aren’t really morphs at all. The manipulation of a single body part doesn’t result in an organic pull-and-push of the other related bodily groups. If you lift an arm, it doesn’t cause the shoulder to rise and ‘bunch’ against the neck the way it does in real humans. It’s literally nothing but a glorified stick figure about as useful as a reference as an old possible GI Joe figure. It’s a bare bones skeleton with complete disregard for actual body mechanics and deformations. It’s like learning anatomy drawing from Poser 3D circa 2001. It CAN give a beginner or even intermediate artist working on their life drawing a decent reference if all others aren’t available. But in the end the resulting figures are awkward, unrealistic, and you can’t even export them in a useful outline or sketch style, just basically “black and white” and “grayscale” of your screen. Having to switch constantly from one entire toolset to another is annoying. You tweak the figure, now have to go to the camera tools to change views and check that it’s right. Need to adjust? Go back to body menu. Now back to camera…bad. Camera viewing angle should be a “master tool” apart from the body modeling and light tools. The poses are also not organized in any sense I could find. There are weird random action poses amongst standing. There are superhero poses next to what looks like ballet. Nothing is labeled or organized by general category (“comic book,” “gymnastics,” “action,” “leisure,” etc.) so you have to hunt after a pose every single time. Bad. I would’ve given more stars despite all that if the apps were frequently and progressively improved upon by the developers. But they seem to just have been left at this point. I’m not using them anymore and looking for other alternatives, even online browser-accessible pose libraries. This just is ultimately a very awkward, inaccurate, poorly laid out app for its stated function.

even with reading the instructions countless times, i can’t figure out how to pan the camera around *while* posing the model. this is something i need to do because that is how i check if the pose looks right at all angles, as well as how i get some positions right. at this point i don’t even know if it’s possible, or if i just haven’t figured it out?! the posing mechanisms are also very frustrating to work.