Personal Advancement

[AvionAvionics]

Hey guys, I have been lurking on these forums for quite a bit. At 1st it was just worked related and still is but I have also grown to greatly enjoy the process in a non-work related sense. So while I can't really post anything work-related. 1. Cause it is still WIP and 2. cause it is semi hush etc, I want to start capturing items that I enjoy personally and thus increase my own ability in photogrammetry/3df zephyr.
Since i am a "poor starving artist" the following model was captured on a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and I was fortunate enough to snag Zephyr Lite before the sale ended.

The central target was the statue that holds up my mailbox. I am personally happy with how it came out. I discarded the mailbox itself due to several reasons. (1. I didn't capture as well as I should since it wasn't my focus. 2. The mailbox is super black and super reflective and I don't have the confidence that i can get it to come out correctly yet lol). Any advice/critique would be most certainly welcomed, again I am looking enjoy this process which means improving my capabilities as well.

If anyone wants to see more of the model I did upload it to Sketchfab as well.

https://sketchfab.com/models/58a2032429764a15b62d0e896ee90778

Edit: Took Andrea advise and straightened up the model and reuploaded it to sketchfab.

[Andrea Alessi]

Hi AvionAvionics,

very cool statue!

Just a couple of notes:

- especially for sketchfab, consider straightening up your model ( takes only a few clicks using the specialized tools ) so that it gets exported in the correct orientation https://www.3dflow.net/forums/forum/...on-to-xy-plane

- as for the shiny, reflective surfaces, yes, those are hard easiest way is to simply dirty them somehow. Otherwise, consider using a projector!

Cheers and keep up the good job!

[AvionAvionics]

Andrea Alessi Thanks, I am definitely going to keep that in mind, thank you. Also, excuse my ignorance but by projector do you mean using one to display an image on the shiny/reflective surface to give it definition so Zephyr can pick it up?

[Andrea Alessi]

All questions are always welcome, no need to excuse for asking

Yep! You can see an example here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E06kgYBftak at 4m20s. You'll need to take two shots from the same spot (so a tripod will be necessary) so you can take 2 images (projector off and projector on) and use the projector on images for the geometry reconstruction and the projector off images for texturing!