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Digital Human League has some incredible data for you, and it's free for noncommercial purposes.

The Wikihuman project is a collaborative project to advance the study of digital humans. Members of the Digital Human League have been working hard to cross the Uncanny Valley with the promise that any movement they make will be shared the entire CG community.

They've now released the first batch of data for Digital Emily 2, a human representation that was unveiled at FMX 2015 by Christopher Nichols of Chaos Group Labs.

  • the model (in Alembic format)
  • the textures (in EXR format)
  • the shader (in OSL format)

Digital Human League have also included a Maya scene with the shaders set up in VRay. The shader is broken up into individual nodes so that it is clear how it was built.

Any artist that wants to access this data can do so for free, as long as it's only used for non-commercial purposes.

The data continue to be refined so artists should pay attention to the Wikihuman and ICT websites. Chaos Group Labs' Twitter feed will be a good place for updates too. Download the data here.

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Tom May
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Tom May is an award-winning journalist specialising in art, design, photography and technology. His latest book, The 50 Greatest Designers (Arcturus Publishing), was published this June. He's also author of Great TED Talks: Creativity (Pavilion Books). Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine.