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I like Deviant Art. It's a portfolio website for artists, but there's also a subset of accounts there called "stock" accounts, where people post photographic reference images for other artists. They range from amateurish and hokey to polished and professional, but even amateur images can function well as reference material, so it's a very handy resource. I don't think this is news to most web-savvy artists.

As a sculptor, my only real complaint about this otherwise awesome (and free) resource, is that very few of the stock accounts provide multiple photographs of the same pose. So, imagine my surprise today when I was trolling for reference images and stumbled upon several high quality 360° flyaround nudes. They're animated GIFs, but that's okay, it's easy enough to split apart the frames.

Note: Links from here on contain nudity

The photographer of said flyarounds is a gentleman by the name of Marcus Ranum (who's DeviantArt account is here; he also maintains a stock account here. I'll save you a little searching time, here are the direct links to the 360° poses:

http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Color-Flyaround-66031624
http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Carly-Flyaround-58252983
http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Rayn-Flyaround-55184171
http://mjranum.deviantart.com/art/Zinn-Spin-48381359

The photographer (who appears to also be a left-brain geek in addition to being a photographer of naked women) has posted a tutoral on how he creates these images, which can be found here.

Marcus Ranum has also photographed one of my favorite models Theda B (although how he got her to dress as a neko cat, I can't even guess). I don't know Theda either, but she has a wonderful, classic body and an expressive face, and I'm envious of Mr. Ranum for having had the opportunity to work with her. I would love to sculpt her someday when I'm good enough to do her justice.