Is there any application that allows me to generate pictures of Karate (or dance) techniques?

Question

I study Karate, it involves remember a lot of techniques and movements. I want to be able to create a visual inventory of what I know so far, so I'm looking for an application that will help me do this.

Of course I could just use a camera and tripod, but that involves getting half decent equipment, finding space to do it, taking several angle photos etc, and would be quite time consuming to get right.

However, if there was an application that allowed me to "model" a human figure to adopt certain stances etc I could quite quickly keep track of how techniques flow.

This would probably also work for other activities like dancing.

Does anyone know if there is some software that can do this?

Answer 1

Yes, makehuman and blender. you can even export rigged characters from makehuman so you can use IK solvers to achieve reasonable movements. Good material on blender can be found at CGTUTS. Remember, if you're planning on distributing these you'll either have to make them gender neutral, or rig a bunch of clothes(takes longer than you would think)

Answer 2

A quick Google search turns up makeHuman.