Articulated Man III: Twisted Man
As promised, here is the third articulated man.
This one combines elements from the previous two articulated men. You’ve got the two background circles on to which are masked two torsos. This time, however, you’ve got two different torsos, one at full view and one at 3/4 view. So, the figure is always twisting away or towards the viewer, but not quite as strongly as was happening in Articulated Man II, when the abdomen and chest were facing in opposite directions.
You could probably use just one background circle (the bottom one) and use the Body>Military Standard>Chest on its own, but the circle is handy to have around in case you want to switch between full view chest or 3/4 view. In fact, to finish off this trunk/torso portion of the posing tutorial, we need to do just that:
Here we have a similar setup but with the torsos reversed – the 3/4 view is on top and the full abdomen is on the bottom. We’ve also brought back the hips from Body>Male Military to help keep the body balanced. As the following example shows, moving this into a some what more dynamic pose is not terribly difficult and results in softer twisting of the torso than was shown in the last example of my previous post (where the 3/4 torso and abdomen were facing in opposite directions).
And, that’s about it for the trunk/torso. With this alone, your HM3 poses can begin to become more life-like and dynamic. The next level is to bring in the limbs, and then you need to start dealing with foreshortening and perspective. You’ll need to use those tools for the trunk as well once you begin to tilt it towards or away from the viewer. But those will have to wait for another post sometime in the future (I don’t know when….).
tutorial by Sean David Ross
