An interactive tool designed to help teach the muscles of facial expression.

From Artnatomy

ARTNATOMY/ARTNATOMIA is a Flash interactive english/spanish tool. It is intended to facilitate the teaching and learning of the anatomical and biomechanical foundation of facial expression morphology.

Author

Victoria Contreras Flores

mail@victoriacontreras.com

Features

• Two levels allow you to first understand the facial muscles and how they control the face, while the second level allows you to see which muscles are active in certain expressions such as anger, irony, rejection, pain, etc.
• Ability to control the transparency of the skull and muscle layers of the face
• Toggle between a line drawing of the face and a fully rendered sketch.  Level II also gives you examples of expressions in real photos of the face.

Limitations

• Some of the translations from Spanish to English make it difficult to follow descriptions at times
• Definitely not for beginners in anatomy
• Would be great if it also identified the bony landmarks on the skull to help follow the descriptions

Posemaniacs—created with artists in mind—allows you to visualize the muscular system using 3D models of the human body.

Author

Can’t seem to find an actual author although an email address is listed on the site:

contact@posemaniacs.com

Features

• Choose from thousands of full body poses
• Head close-ups are also available
• Each pose is fully rotatable
• Toggle a grid background on and off to help with drawing
• Full screen mode available for each pose
• 30 second drawing tool
• Negative space drawing exercises
• Hand drawing exercises
• Also available for the iPhone/iPod Touch
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Limitations

• Models become pixelated in fullscreen mode