About the Game
HAELE 3D - Portrait Studio Pro is a 3D face drawing reference tool designed for beginner to advanced artists. It includes a diverse range of characters, realistic male and female faces, simplified planar models, and anatomical modes featuring muscular and skeletal systems. Pick, blend, and modify facial expressions, experiment with different lighting setups, and customize environments to create references for your artwork.
It serves as a helpful resource for learning how to draw the human head and understand facial structure. Whether your art style is realistic, stylized, cartoon, anime, or anything in between, this easy to use app complements tutorials and helps you practice portrait drawing and sculpting from sketch to finish.
Please note: HAELE 3D software is intended for creating and viewing visual references within the application and does not provide functionality for exporting 3D models.
Features:
Switch quickly between simplified, realistic or anatomical models.
50+ editable preset scenes.
30+ editable preset characters.
Planes of the face models, skull and facial muscle models, separate facial parts.
Facial expression library with more than 90 blendable facial expressions plus adjustable eye direction.
Editable head and neck poses.
Facial guidelines and wireframe mode.
Editable skin tones, materials, and shading modes.
Editable make-up
Various hair, beard, mustache, and eyebrow styles.
Fully editable realtime lighting.
360 degree free camera movement.
Adjustable camera field of view.
Editable overlay grid.
View scenes in VR.
Save and load your scenes.
Please note: HAELE 3D software is intended for creating and viewing visual references within the application and does not provide functionality for exporting 3D models.
Screenshots
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Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
CHANGED - Hair simulation now includes beards too.
CHANGED - Improved hair physics.
CHANGED - A lot of things under the hood to prepare HAELE 3D for a new generation of MetaHumans in the future.
Best-case scenario, you should not notice these changes, but if you encounter any bugs, please report them to me.
CHANGED - Camera speed was previously saved per scene; now it is a global variable.
FIXED - Hairstyles were not restored when switching back to a realistic face if multiple hairstyles, a skull, or a planar face had been selected.
v139 2026.09.23 Small update
CHANGED - The realistic skull can now open its jaw via facial expressions
ADDED - 7 new facial expressions
ADDED - A pop-up window with possible solutions when FPS is low.
FIXED - A bug where facial expressions sometimes did not apply to the face
Hope full did not add more bugs before launch than I fixed :)
--------- PORTRAIT STUDIO PRO ----------
- ADDED - Makeup options
- ADDED - 15 new preset scenes, 3 new lighting presets and 16 new character presets
- ADDED - 3 skull models + 1 facial muscle model
- ADDED - Separate mouth, nose and eye models, plus low-poly versions to
- ADDED - 60+ new facial expressions
--------- ALL PORTRAIT APPS ----------
- ADDED - An option to blend facial expressions
- ADDED - Blendable guidelines for all face models
- ADDED - An Override Eye Direction option to the Facial Expressions menu
- FIXED - The bug where hair disappeared after switching back to a realistic face from a planar one.
- FIXED - Reset Camera was setting the camera to the wrong location.
- FIXED - Face model buttons had no numbers on them.
- ADDED - A button to the Hair Settings menu to toggle hair simulation.
- CHANGED - Body bones are no longer visible in Portrait Studio. Only the neck and clavicles are visible.
--------- GENERAL ----------
- ADDED - A pause rendering button to the main toolbar.
- ADDED - A delete button next to the default new save name.
- ADDED - A function that smooths out the loading of saved file slots to avoid loading hiccups. You can enable/disable it in the settings
In v133 I accidentally made the "Face Model" panel hidden, this is quite an important part of the app, so I rolled back the default build to v132. This will be fixed soon in v134. Sorry for the inconvenience.
- ADDED - the option to speed up and slow down the camera with holding Shift and Control
- FIXED - Thumbnail showed up a start up next to the mouse sometimes
- ADDED - Eye direction controller to Portrait Studio
- CHANGED - Separated the Pose reset button into Pose Reset and Move to Center
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Current Release
Build 25916592
Uploaded Oct 14, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
HAELE.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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