Capturing Photoscans: Everything I Can Think of. (Patreon)

Capturing Photoscans: Everything I Can Think of

0:00 Greetings from The War (Regrets) 0:37 I Like Photoscanning (?) 1:50 Apple's Object Capture API (two cool updates) 3:15 Polycam Available to Folks Without Iphones 3:30 Redundant Mission Statement 4:32 What the Computer Needs for Good Scans (parallax, clear data) 6:13 Basic Optics Tradeoffs (DOF/Shutter-Speed/Etc) 12:50 My Photoscanning Setup 13:37 Importance of Attire 14:30 Actually Scanning 17:10 Soggy Warnings of Tricky Scan Subjects 18:21 Quick Tip for Digitally Cleaning Foliage 19:52 Wide-vs-Narrow Lenses 21:32 Scanning Objects 22:24 Importance of Even Lighting 25:35 Fixing White Balance in the Texture Editor 28:05 Polycam 29:38 Examining a Troubled Scan 33:00 Reality Capture vs Object Capture (in my experience) 36:33 Shoot in Manual Mode 37:00 Continued Experiments with Focal Length 37:30 Turning Videos into Image Sequences in Blender 39:35 Fixing Weirdness in Polycam Model's Import Process I've talked a lot about ways to process scans in blender, but I've tended to avoid the actual scanning process, because by-and-large it's fairly self-evident- but folks have asked, and with Polycam's new browser-based functionality opening up the Object Capture system to folks without iPhones, it seems like a good time to talk about everything I can think of about capturing good photoscans. Oh except for: "get nice, clean, high-res pictures". I forgot to say that bit. I should have put that in there. Here's the phone model, if you want it! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgBEFrtGeCPw2CcFkdftnekU3hepDoSq/view?usp=sharing