Where to purchase good body shots

Looking for a site where i can purchase some good quality pics of a person to make a skin. Its more just to get the contour of muscles. So a good front/back shot with good lighting.

If anyone could post any helpful sites, or IM me in game or on here.

I used to have a ton of them bookmarked, but unfortunately when I recently wiped my hard drives, I forgot to back up my bookmarks (suck!). These are two I remember off hand:

http://www.human-anatomy-for-artist.com/
http://www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com/

You'll have to check the licensing. I'm not sure if you're allowed to use the photos directly. They're meant as reference material for artists, not as direct photo sources for textures.

http://www.3d.sk/

is rather popular place with this sort of content

Actually the sites listed above are the same owner and you can use them for actuall skins. They have been used in poser for the past 5 years to help with character skin generation.

You just cannot resell the ref files themselves. They are the copyright of 3DSK.

Since no one else has said it, I will. Not that I advocate this or anything else related to this. Now that the disclaimer has been said, have you considered porn?
Honestly not the hardcore, raw grunting but the tasteful nudes etc. Since you need nudes to make good skins anyway, that would be the best short of artists shots.
And that is why I wont make anything other than faces. And the faces well, I am make them for me and for fun.

heh, years ago I used to practice figure drawing with Playboy centerfolds.

Not too useful for skins though, since you aren't getting all around coverage. Those anatomy-for-artist sites do multiple shots from a variety of angles for each model.

When I was first learning 3D modeling, I used playboy.com for reference shots for human character modeling. I'm not sure if they still have it since I haven't been to that site in ages, but they used to have an interactive Flash thingy with their "cyber girl" of the month standing on a turn table, and you could spin her a full 360 degrees. It worked quite well.

*cough* ahem, they do. *cough*.
I have facegen. But I am at college and it can get me things if I fix peoples computers. You would be amazing what someone will pay to rescue their term paper.

The Internet is for porn!


I swear by www.3d.sk but there are many other good sites out there, just like Chosen I did a format a while ago, and whiped out all of my bookmarks... been patheticly trying to gather them back ever since, but my memory is worse than that of a gld fish, so some of the other good sites I could refer you to are gone from my organic database...

my primary concern is putting my credit card out there - anybody had any good or bad luck with any of these sites - the info is primo and i sure could use it.

thanks all - great forum.
anik pavlova