Scanned statue

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  Bananaboy
  

  Wow this is incredible! It would be fantastic if you explain, how did you scan this statue [what kind of software, technic, maybe the cost etc]. Thank you for sharing this Blend :)

  Written January 27, 2015
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  unixseb
  

  i used agisoft photoscan to reconstruct the model, i took about 120 pictures with a Lumix DMC-FZ50 to achieve this.

  you can find the software here : http://www.agisoft.com/

  and here's the tutorial i followed to make my own scan : http://www.agisoft.com/index.php?id=32

  Edited January 27, 2015
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  PeeDee76
  

  Cool Subject and process. Ty.

  Written January 27, 2015
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  helium3
  

  Thanks for sharing this. Really cool process.

  Written January 27, 2015
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  unixseb
  

  some advices to achieve good results with this technique :

  • take the pictures outside or in a verry clear room (i use to scan in a veranda) so the lighting on the model is uniform

  -try to use the maximum zoom level when you shoot to obtain a clear foreground and a blurry background

  -Use the lower possible iso to have the less possible noise on the pictures.

  -Use a good camera with a good lens (i never got good results with smartphone or gopro shots)

  -Be sure to mask all unwanted areas in the pictures, specially when there's holes in the model. (for this one, i had to mask everything between the legs on every pictures to have a good result, this is the boring but necessary part of the process)

  -If you can, it is better to use the provided printable markers (you'll need less pictures if the markers are present)

  -It is better to have smaller resolution pictures but with low noise and compression than large ones with a high compression level (i use the raw format on my camera and then convert to PNG with gimp)

  -Try to shoot dark model on clear background or clear model on dark backgrounds, the more contrast you'll have, the better will be the result.

  -It is also recommended to have a good cpu (this model took about 3 hours to reconstruct on a 8 cores at 4.5Ghz helped by a GTX980 opencl gpu), the more pictures you'll have, the longer will be the reconstruction but the better will be the result.

  -Avoid changing the focal or zoom level between shots, the soft can handle it, but alignment time will be longer.

  Written January 29, 2015
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  Anthony P
  

  Very nice scan, great for testing materials. Thanks for sharing!

  Written February 02, 2015
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  PipTogo
  

  I used your scan for a homework for university: http://youtu.be/Ifz0uWFCvRY I also tested the model in Blender and did some renderings: http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?373412-Statue-Render&p=2885912&highlight=#post2885912

  Thanks for sharing, hope you like it!

  Written June 18, 2015
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  unixseb
  

  looks verry good, i like the camera tracking. thanks for using it ;)

  Written June 22, 2015