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#reference photos

wobblegong
@wobblegong

Two EXTREMELY KICKASS links for you today:

  1. FOR ANIMALS: "Animal Photo Art References Search" – pick an animal, drag the 3D bone skull to the angle you desire, and hit Search. It returns a bunch of photos of the chosen animal with its head oriented as near to that direction as the search can manage. No more hopelessly trawling search engine image results praying for the angle you need!
    https://x6ud.github.io/#/

  2. FOR HUMANS: "Reference Angle" – rotate the 3D mannequin head to the angle you desire, configure AGASearchResult/age/some other flags, and hit Search. Once again recieve a whole lot of photos automagically selected to be as close to your directions as the search engine can manage!
    http://referenceangle.com/

As you can see the results aren't flawless– if you have superior references already, use 'em! But for afficionadoes of drawing stuff at unusual angles or people looking for something outside their "favorite genus at 3/4 angle" comfort zone, I cannot think of a faster and easier machine.

doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

just released my first reference photo/video pack, nbd >:)

i've been meaning to do this for a while... i just released a pack of reference photos! 📷 they're of a Kodak Hawk-Eye No. 2 Model B, a camera produced between 1926-1934. it's sort of a family heirloom, and as far as i know, a camera that would have been fairly accessible to the average person at the time.

my goal was to take some thorough and decent quality photos of a single object, capturing all its little details, for the artist who doesn't want to have to extrapolate. ;)

it's $5+ PWYW and there are even videos in the zip file, go take a look and follow me on ko-fi! 💖☕