![]() "At GoPro, we're always looking for new ways to use our cameras, new ways to leverage them to do something that's never been done before in digital imaging.Īs an example, GoPro is the first consumer camera company to enable people to combine multiple like-cameras together to form a new type of camera", says Nicholas Woodman, founder, and CEO of GoPro. Tim and Callum Macmillan, pioneers of camera array photography, were the men in charge of the stunt. The GoPro array shows the capabilities of the famous water camera during Rip Curl's upcoming marketing campaign for its Mirage Boardshort. If you’re interested in either 3D, video, communication, performing or the future in general, be sure to watch the video below.For the first time in the history of surfing, a set of 48 GoPro cameras were used to capture the perspectives of two-time world champion surfer, Mick Fanning, doing what he does best in the warm waters of the South Pacific. The company that used to just make Windows and Word is now creating devices such as HoloLens and is even opening special Mixed Reality Capture Studios in London and San Francisco. It covers companies like Microsoft that are at the forefront of creating what some call holograms. Yesterday, The Verge published an awesome mini-documentary about this called “Are Holograms the Future of How We Record Memories?” (see video below). To be able to capture that kind of “true” Volumetric Video - containing audio-visual performances that can be viewed from any angle - various companies are developing completely new recording studios. To capture this new kind of Volumetric Video various companies are developing new recording studios To capture complete, 360-degrees, full-body performances a lot more technology is needed. ![]() As far as I know this is one of the first examples of a Volumetric 3D Stop-Motion Animation:Īs you can see those are both partial captures. I’ve recently done this by using Photogrammetry to capture five stages of an apple being eaten. One step closer maybe is capturing something in 3D in different stages over time. But it’s still animation - not recorded video. Sure you can take digital animation many steps further and the latest Playstation games with digital characters or digital actors in the latest Star Wars movies look awesome. To put it short: animated 3D scans are not a replacement for 2D video. As you can see this is pretty cool already but it still looks like a game character even though Mixamo’s animation templates are sourced from actual human motion capture performances. Mind you that the embedded content above is not a video - you can play it as such but you can also use your mouse or finger to rotate around the character and view it from all sides. The Walking Pat – itSeez3D Review by Nick Lievendag | 3D Scan Expert on Sketchfab I loaded the scan data into Adobe’s free online Mixamo character animation tool to get this result within minutes, lit and rendered in real-time through Sketchfab. Below is a scan of my business partner Patrick (whom also makes awesome Photoshop plug-ins, by the way) scanned with an iPad, a $379 Structure Sensor 3D Scanner and the itSeez3D app. Scanning a person and then animating the result actually isn’t so hard, and can be done on a very tight budget. ![]() This can be used to create characters for video games or digital actors part of film visual effects.Īnimated 3D scans are not a replacement for 2D video. There are many purposes for just using the static results but for scanning people these scans can also be digitally animated. 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. 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! My interest in 3D capture started a two years ago when as an R&D project for my animation studio. Bellus3D Face Camera Pro (IR Sensor, Android).
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