I've been fighting with this problem for a long time, and I finally got a better computer that can handle modern software, and so I figured I'd look for some of those 3D programs so I could use them for that. And first I checked out a shareware one with a free trial - Cloudstars (http://www.cloudstars.com/) - which was too limited but would have been helpful - except that all the women are in sex poses. Not just sex*y*, but lying down, even with legs apart, kneeling with open mouths, etc etc etc. And they weren't advertising this as for medical artists illustrating OBGYN or dental exams!
Meanwhile, the men are all in "strong" action poses.
I found this as well with the samples of another program which was far too expensive and limited for what I wanted, but very telling, which I discuss here (http://bellatrys.livejournal.com/269472.html) and here (http://bellatrys.livejournal.com/269808.html).
And then I got the free download of Poser 5, thinking to use it to do some "Regendering" as well as my original quest of setting up charas in scenes for sketching - and lo and behold, there's a whole library of preset poses in the defaults. With separate sets for "male" and "female" actions. Including different "male" vs "female" ways to sit on the sofa, talk on the phone, shake hands in a business meeting - let alone superhero/swordfight/action scene. The "female" ones are girly, contained, passive (the fistfight poses are almost all her getting beat up, reeling back instead of laying a left hook, the female swordfighter is frozen in lordosis T&A pose where the male figure is actually, you know, swinging, etc ) and sultry, and you can really see it when you take the male figure and apply the female poses - all the sudden you get musclebound, but hipshot guys standing or reclining languidly in strangely twisting poses or weirdly infantile, childlike cringes...
I'm going to use Poser for some of the regendering comics/cover art experiments, as soon as I get some free time to play with it (hollow laughter.) Also for advertising- it's everywhere, the amount of always-female skin and infantilization camouflaged under the shrug "sex sells", so that your eyes just skip over it and edit it out. But once you start noticing it, it's like dirt - you can't not see it.
you want annoying?
Meanwhile, the men are all in "strong" action poses.
I found this as well with the samples of another program which was far too expensive and limited for what I wanted, but very telling, which I discuss here (http://bellatrys.livejournal.com/269472.html) and here (http://bellatrys.livejournal.com/269808.html).
And then I got the free download of Poser 5, thinking to use it to do some "Regendering" as well as my original quest of setting up charas in scenes for sketching - and lo and behold, there's a whole library of preset poses in the defaults. With separate sets for "male" and "female" actions. Including different "male" vs "female" ways to sit on the sofa, talk on the phone, shake hands in a business meeting - let alone superhero/swordfight/action scene. The "female" ones are girly, contained, passive (the fistfight poses are almost all her getting beat up, reeling back instead of laying a left hook, the female swordfighter is frozen in lordosis T&A pose where the male figure is actually, you know, swinging, etc ) and sultry, and you can really see it when you take the male figure and apply the female poses - all the sudden you get musclebound, but hipshot guys standing or reclining languidly in strangely twisting poses or weirdly infantile, childlike cringes...
I'm going to use Poser for some of the regendering comics/cover art experiments, as soon as I get some free time to play with it (hollow laughter.) Also for advertising- it's everywhere, the amount of always-female skin and infantilization camouflaged under the shrug "sex sells", so that your eyes just skip over it and edit it out. But once you start noticing it, it's like dirt - you can't not see it.