12 hours ago
Creator of JustSketchMe here! I was very surprised to see this on HackerNews this morning. Very cool to see this doing the rounds 6 years into running this :)
10 hours ago
Very nice. Well done :) I could have used this a lot when I was an Art Director in advertising sketching storyboards all day long. I guess these days Art Directors are just asking AI to do it?
10 hours ago
Cute little app, very nice
11 hours ago
Incredibly fun to play around with it, and really incredible mobile web support..! Two finger dragging worked without interfering with the browser’s usual handling of it.
Super cool, congrats! I was just reminiscing about the old school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser_(software) software recently, wondering if there were other contenders in the space.
Cheers
11 hours ago
Thanks, it also runs well as a PWA. It's Threejs under the hood, plus some rendering optimisation to ensure it performs well in mobile browsers.
6 hours ago
There should be a HN name for posts like this - things that are clearly influenced by what was popular yesterday. The creator of this is the same person that wrote the blog post on being present without phones that was top ranked yesterday. It's clear that someone looked at that post, read about the creator, then posted their other project here.
Not saying it's bad or anything, just funny to see the link-browsing tendency of HN often manifest in such a direct way. It happens more than you would think as well!
4 hours ago
Happens all the time :)
I think it's exaggerated by the automatic upvoting when submitting something that was recently submitted too. So as people discover the same thing, they submit it to HN and each submission upvotes the first submission.
We're all discovering the same things seemingly :)
8 hours ago
Be nice to have AI integration for natural language: (i.e. 'show the character running and looking away from camera')
5 hours ago
Cool. Might be able to get a quick approximate pose for manual finetuning by integrating Mediapipe: https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/pose_l...
9 hours ago
As someone who is getting into character art again after a very long time, this tool looks amazing. I've bookmarked it, and after I use it for a few references, I'll likely end up getting pro.
6 hours ago
Tangent
There is a guy on YT/Japanese Cafe that has real robotic Chobits they use wheels to move around but they have face tracking/digital eyes that look at you and moving arms
5 hours ago
Inverse kinematics would be nice here, to just move hand in certain position instead of editing several joints.
10 hours ago
Incredible mobile support. Very well done.
10 hours ago
Cool stuff, but I'll bet a lot of folks will use it to act out their Id.
13 hours ago
dont i see it or is it missing inverse kinematics? from my experience people will want this desperately.
11 hours ago
It is a highly requested feature. I just seem to have painted myself into a corner dev wise, and it's a pretty difficult feature to build without significant re-architecture. It's on my to-do list though.
12 hours ago
How is this any better than a Blender file with a rigged human model?
11 hours ago
Literally just ease of use. Blender you have to learn to use, whereas JSM is built to be pick-up-and-go for even the least tech-savvy users.
7 hours ago
And feature-wise, that's all it needs.
10 hours ago
Try get a non technical artist to pick up Blender and work out a rigged human model.
10 hours ago
first question why: where do you get a rigged human models with the same level of detail, for free ?
2 hours ago
I wanted to use blender for quick pose reference yesterday and I was able to find several good ones and even one great one within 5min. They're around.
8 hours ago
haha this was mine as well, would love to see some recommendations where people are getting some nice models to draw from.
12 hours ago
Ease of use.
12 hours ago
Because of a lack of features? It doesn't even have IK so I would argue Blender is in fact easier to use (as in, will get you to the result faster even if you need a bit more time to learn the interface).
11 hours ago
This has pre-built poses, props and a bunch of other easy to use features. This is classic hacker-news ‘Less intuitive and more complicated X is better because I already know how to use X’
11 hours ago
I must have spent a hundred hours in Blender over the years, and I'm still not competent enough to do even some of the most basic things on my own when I pick it up.
Blender is an amazing project, but I would not suggest it as an alternative to OP's tool if asked by someone who practices drawing and has zero Blender experience or interest.
12 hours ago
Would be cool, if you could upload the scene into image gen. model and it would create picture for you but with hard defined objects from the scene.
You know, for us people who can't draw a ... nothing :)
(I still support creative people though)
11 hours ago
It's entirely possible to export an image of the scene and upload that to your genAI of choice.
8 hours ago
For some reason reminds me of making stop motion animation with Garry's mod