Reality Capture

Professional photogrammetry 02 /  by Xuan Prada

Here is the trailer for "Professional photogrammetry episode 02".

In this 4-ish hours video I will talk about scanning in natural environments. We will cover everything needed for scanning and processing two different types of natural assets.

The first asset is a 3D asset, the second one is a ground surface. Both scanning and processing workflows are completely different for each, but hopefully after this video, you should be able to grow your own library of natural environment assets.

We go through equipment, scanning patterns, camera settings, etc. Then we will process everything in order to create final high quality assets ready for visual effects and real time.

I hope you enjoy this video, if you like it I guess I will do more videos about scanning in the wild/city.

Thanks!
Xuan.

All the info on my Patreon.

Professional photogrammetry 01 /  by Xuan Prada

Hello patrons,

Let's take a break from the USD training, we'll come back to it in the next video.
For now, let's enjoy a 4 hours video about professional photogrammetry.
I reckon this will be a short series, maybe 3 videos about photogrammetry acquisition and processing.

In today's video we will talk about cross polarization in a controlled environment for capturing 3D assets. We will discuss how polarization works, camera gear, how to take photos properly and how to process the data to create nice looking assets for VFX and real time.

All the information on my Patreon.

I hope you like it.
Thanks!
Xuan.

Introduction to Reality Capture /  by Xuan Prada

In this 3 hour tutorial I go through my photogrammetry workflow using Reality Capture in conjunction with Maya, Zbrush Mari and UV Layout.

I will guide you through the entire process, from capturing footage on-set until asset completion. I will explain the most basic settings needed to process your images in Reality Capture, to create point clouds, high resolution meshes and placeholder textures.
Then I will continue to develop the asset in order to make it suitable for any visual effects production.

This are the topics included in this tutorial.

- Camera gear.
- Camera settings.
- Shooting patterns.
- Footage preparation.
- Photogrammetry software.
- Photogrammetry process in Reality Capture.
- Model clean up.
- Retopology.
- UV mapping.
- Texture re-projection, displacement and color maps.
- High resolution texturing in Mari.
- Render tests.

Check it out on my Patreon feed.