A mobile app development company based in Montreal recently launched its first application that would allow artists to interact with 3D human anatomy models.
MARA3D Incorporated announced “MARA3D: David Giraud Male Anatomy,” an app that creates the experience of working with a live model through 3D representations. The app provides multiple poses, viewing angles and lighting perspectives that the artist can choose with the swipe of a finger.
The app was available as of last month for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad for $3.99. The company said MARA3D would be available for Android platforms early this year.
Chrissy Myers, a fourth-year fine arts student at Mount Allison University, said she would purchase the app if she had a means of viewing it.
“It would be great for finding angles for source material if you’re looking for a light source that is hard to create naturally, when you can’t find the right picture on Google images, or if you don’t want to mess around trying to take pictures of yourself from a billion different angles,” she said in a Facebook post. “Plus it’s only $3.99 – I just need an iPhone now.”
Kristen Atkins, an MTA fine arts graduate, agreed the app would be handy but she’s not sold on using it.
“It would standardize peoples unique hand marks, [therefore it wouldn’t be] a good teaching tool,” Atkins said. “And all the nudists would be out of work.”
The company calls the program an “artists’ app,” created for artists and educators working in traditional, 2D, 3D, computer generated, and comic book/games art. All of the models featured are original artwork of David Giraud, a computer graphic artist.
The app allows the viewer to access dynamic lighting, multiple poses, saved views and the ability to view and study subjects from any angle in skin, grey-scale musculature-view, color musculature-view, and silhouette mode. A female hybrid model is included as a preview for a forthcoming app by MARA3D.
