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iPad

iPhone

About Handy Art Reference Tool

"Thanks to this useful app, drawing realistic hands can become a whole lot easier" - ImagineFX

"Pencillers, inkers, and colorists should all give this a look!" - Tony Moore, co-creator of The Walking Dead

If you're an artist and ever wanted just quick and easy drawing reference for hands, heads, or even feet (IAP) without having to awkwardly pose your limbs in front of a mirror, this app is for you!

HANDY is an artist's reference tool, consisting of several rotatable 3D limbs with a variety of poses useful for drawing. You can also customize and edit your own poses for hands, feet, and skulls.

Fully adjustable 3-point lighting means you can get easy lighting reference when using any of the 10+ included 3D head busts. Handy if you’re painting and need to know what shadows the head casts from a certain angle!

Also available is the Animal Skulls pack. With over 10 different animal species, it's great for anatomical reference or creature design inspiration.
[Foot rigs and Animal Skull pack require additional purchase]

NEW in Handy v5: Edit the materials of models! Selectively turn off their textures, adjust their specularity, or tint them a certain color.

Perfect for comic book artists, painters, or just casual sketchers!

Featured in ImagineFX's Top 10 Must-Have Apps!

Check out the video demo:
http://handyarttool.com/

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Novidades da Última Versão 5.0.5

Last updated on Apr 27, 2023

Versões Antigas

- Fixed an issue where images would sometimes fail to save to Photos with transparency.
- Slight improvement to the Save Scene/Light Rig UX flow
- Minor bug fixes

Thank you for your support!

Version History

5.0.5

Apr 27, 2023

- Fixed an issue where images would sometimes fail to save to Photos with transparency.
- Slight improvement to the Save Scene/Light Rig UX flow
- Minor bug fixes

Thank you for your support!

5.0.4

Aug 3, 2022

- Fix added for rotation getting stuck when using iPad OS gestures
- Fix for some characters in Japanese & Chinese languages not appearing correctly

5.0.3

Feb 5, 2021

Reworked the selection outline effect for better performance

5.0.2

Feb 3, 2021

Reworked the selection outline effect for better performance

5.0.1

Oct 10, 2020

5.0.1 Fix for iPadOS screenshot sharing not working

Welcome to the Handy 5.0 Update! Some new additions to this version include:
- You can now load multiple models!
- Upgraded lighting and rendering methods to PBR standards and with sub surface scattering effects
- New category: Props! Knife, Pistol, Pipe, Sword, and Katana
- Material Editor! Want to turn off the model's textures? Or edit the material to be more shiny? Or just want to color tint it? No problem
- iCloud sync now enabled for your Saved Scenes and Light Rigs across devices!
- Darker skin variants for hand / leg limbs
- 2 new high res fully textured head busts added
- Dynamic rendering quality for lower-end phones
- Some expanded camera controls like being able to lock the light rotation to the camera rotation, or lock the axis of rotation (when in landscape mode)
- Localization fixes. Better fonts for Japanese & Chinese Simplified languages

5.0

Sep 28, 2020

Welcome to the Handy 5.0 Update! Some new additions to this version include:
- You can now load multiple models!
- Upgraded lighting and rendering methods to PBR standards and with sub surface scattering effects
- New category: Props! Knife, Pistol, Pipe, Sword, and Katana
- Material Editor! Want to turn off the model's textures? Or edit the material to be more shiny? Or just want to color tint it? No problem
- iCloud sync now enabled for your Saved Scenes and Light Rigs across devices!
- Darker skin variants for hand / leg limbs
- 2 new high res fully textured head busts added
- Dynamic rendering quality for lower-end phones
- Some expanded camera controls like being able to lock the light rotation to the camera rotation, or lock the axis of rotation (when in landscape mode)
- Localization fixes. Better fonts for Japanese & Chinese Simplified languages

4.2

Mar 6, 2018

Female foot now available! It's automatically included alongside the Male Foot IAP, so if you've already grabbed that you'll get the female foot for free!

4.1.4

Dec 12, 2017

Fixing a crash that would occur on iOS 11 when saving a screenshot

4.1.3

Dec 5, 2017

Fixes splotchy shadow rendering errors occurring for iPhone 8/X users

4.1.2

Aug 23, 2017

New in 4.1.2:
- Quick fix to a graphical glitch that would appear in the shadowed sides of lights.

New in 4.1:
- HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull!
- Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man
- Can now save transparent screenshots without a background
- Localization! Now available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, and Spanish!

As always, thank you for using and supporting Handy!

4.1.1

Aug 21, 2017

- HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull!
- Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man
- Can now save transparent screenshots without a background
- Localization! Now available in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, French, German, and Spanish!

NOTE:
There is currently a possible graphical glitch that can appear in the shadowed side of lights (like a weird glowing circle). A fix for this is currently in the App Store submission process.

4.1

Aug 19, 2017

- HUGE update to the Animal Skull Pack: Now includes a Chimpanzee, Boar, Raven, Turkey, Opossum, Sabertooth, Tufted Deer and Bear skull!
- Two additional human heads: Female Planar and Old Man
- Can now save transparent screenshots without a background
- Localization! Currently available in Japanese (Chinese Simplified, Korean, French, German, and Spanish will come very soon in an update the following week)

As always, thank you for using and supporting Handy!

4.0

Jul 22, 2016

- Hand / Foot pose-ability !
- Ability to screenshot and save to device gallery or share it
- Landscape view layout support
- iOS Split View multitasking support
- Can now save head positioning
- Rotation sensitivity is now adjustable in settings

3.1

Jan 13, 2016

NEW FANCY HEADS graciously provided by AnatomyNext
- Female Erin
- Male Planar
- Male Topology
- Male High-Res
- Skull High-Res

ANIMAL SKULL PACK [IAP] Great for animal/creature reference and inspiration!
- Cow
- Dog
- Cat
- Goat

MISC STUFF
- A bonus simple planed head for simplified light/shadow reference
- Fixed some awkward geometry on the old male head, and up-res'd it a bit
- Big improvements to the controls when two finger pinch-zooming and panning
- Direct camera controls! Now you can adjust the zoom and the FOV easily with on-screen sliders
- Skulls (those with a lower jaw anyways) now have on-screen sliders that allow you to open the mouth

Thanks for using Handy! Your reviews help not only what needs to be focused on, but also keep Handy alive, so keep em coming!

3.0

May 1, 2015

- By popular demand, [male] foot now available as IAP
- Two finger touch and drag will now move model around the screen
- Lots of minor bug fixes. Also lots of re-writing stuff! So hopefully things are still running smoothly.
Please leave a review and let us know what you think of Handy !

2.4.1

Dec 14, 2014

Light 1 now does cast shadowing. I'm working on getting cast shadows for all lights, but because of rendering technical limitations it's a bit involved. So until then, I figured I'd update with the one light.
Handy is also in the middle of some restructuring for better lighting/material systems. I appreciate all your patience and support!!
Help keep Handy going by leaving a review!

2.3.2

Jan 2, 2014

Re-implementing the fixes to the male & female hand rigs. If you experience any odd problems with this version please don't hesitate to contact us at contact@handyarttool.com ! And happy new year!

2.3.1

Dec 18, 2013

Fixing an bizarre flickering issue with iPhone4 / Touch4

2.3

Dec 12, 2013

Fixes to the female and male hands.

2.2

Oct 24, 2013

- Happy Halloween! I got you this HUMAN SKULL
- New hand poses!
- Some small fixes and optimizations

2.1

Sep 13, 2013

- A female hand!
- A female head!
- Fixed a bug with the saved light rig lists that could cause a crash, and an additional bug that could cause them to order incorrectly in rare situations

2.0

Jan 19, 2013

NEW FEATURES AND STUFF IN 2.0!
- Now includes a 3D MALE HEAD model, for all your tricky angles and lighting reference needs!
- Can now customize your light rig! Rotate each light individually and easily change it's color and intensity!
- Like that customized lighting and hand position? Save it!
- Bunch of new poses!
- Major re-write fixing a lot of bugs, bad deformations, and wonky looking fingers

1.2

Feb 3, 2012

Minor bugfixes.

1.1

Dec 2, 2011

- iPad platform now included in the universal binary
- Increased the resolution of the hand textures
- Fixes to the thumbnail scrolling
- Lots of performance optimization

1.0

Nov 11, 2011

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