Inspiration

It has become an annual tradition for me to publish my Holiday Gift Guide. Like previous years, I’ve created curated list of 3D Capture Gifts for Photogrammetry as well as …
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Until recently, in my consulting work around 3D reality capture I have made the distinction between two technologies:

• Active 3D capture, or 3D scanning, which uses a dedicated device …
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It’s Mobile Wold Congress in Barcelona this week. Interestingly, for a 3D Scan Expert a mobile technology event like MWC is becoming just as valuable as industrial …
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2017 could well be considered the official kickoff of volumetric 3D for a larger audience. This partially the result of VR-headset sales but more so because of the introduction AR-capable smartphones.

Augmented Reality demands 3D models to work. It’s certainly cool to use the Sketchfab iOS-app or Android-app on your new ARkit or ARcore-enabled smartphone to project digital 3D models into your physical reality. But wouldn’t it be much more awesome if those models where your own 3D scans?

This holiday season is the perfect moment to enter the world of 3D — either on the capture side or on the viewing side! Here are some ideas for your wish list.

I tried to keep everything below affordable but if you’re celebrating the end of the year with an investment-mindset, I’d be glad to give you tailored recommendations.

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My interest in 3D capture started a two years ago when as an R&D project for my animation studio. In fact, I started 3D Scan Expert out of the motivation that I couldn’t find good information about the possibilities of 3D capture for creative projects!

Of course, 3D scanning and photogrammetry are used to capture static objects and people that are trying their very best to stand still for a moment. There are many purposes for just using the static results but for scanning people these scans can also be digitally animated. This can be used to create characters for video games or digital actors part of film visual effects.

Animated 3D scans are not a replacement for 2D video.

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I visited the Star Wars Identities exhibition in Utrecht, The Netherlands yesterday and couldn’t resist to capture this original prop of Han Solo in Carbonite.

50 Photos taken with Nexus …
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A while back I showed you how 3D Scanning was used to create the worlds of Star Wars for the video game Battlefront. In this post, I’m writing about the recent movie Roque One: A Star Wars Story and how 3D scanning was used by ILM to create one of the film’s most-discussed visual effects: the digital resurrection of Grand Moff Tarkin.

I’m illustrating this with a few screengrabs from a featurette video by ABC News. That video only goes into the 3D scanning part for a few seconds, so I’m writing this to expand on this and give you some information about the 3D scanner that was used.

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It’s almost Christmas and one thing you know for sure is that there will be

1. Friends and Family
2. Food
3. Pictures of the above

The first two will probably never change, and this is a good thing. But tradition number 3 offers an opportunity to stand out. Maybe one of your friends will bring a Polaroid camera to try to wow the others with hipster nostalgia, but you can beat them by taking your Christmas Photography to a 2017 level instead of 1977 (the Polaroid 1000 Land camera was the best-selling camera of that year).

How? By capturing your Christmas Eve in 3D — For Free!

Here’s an example by Sketchfab‘s Phillip Alexeev:

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Is there a person in your life that needs an escape from everyday 2D life? These gifts will help them step into the third dimension! Or maybe that special person …
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A few months a ago I wrote a feature post about How 3D Scanning was used to create the Visual Effects for the Gotham TV Series because I like both 3D scanning and am a big fan of everything Batman. There is, however, one other piece of fiction that I’m drawn to even more: Star Wars. So I was waiting for an opportunity to write a feature post about a combination of 3D scanning and the Galaxy far, far away.

And then, last week, I came across this post by the Swedish game developer DICE, responsible for games like the successful Battlefield series, Mirror’s Edge, and the latest iteration of Star Wars Battlefront.

One thing that sets this “next gen” (it’s available for Playstation 4 & XBOX One) iteration of Battlefront apart from its predecessors is the stunning visual quality—especially of the wide open worlds that are very recognizable for Star Wars fans. With very realistic representations of the planets Hoth, Tatooine, Endor and Sullust, this game is the best way to interactively immerse yourself in the Star Wars universe. Or as Wired puts it: “Star Wars Battlefront Plays Like You’re Watching the Movie.”

Let’s take a look at what this means through an in-game screenshot before I continue:

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