KeenFace: Familiar Faces, Less Mesh Housekeeping
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IngeTrazo: A Home for the Render Farm
A free architectural modeller combines SketchUp import, BIM quantities, drawing sheets, Blender rendering and Python extensions.
PFTrack Solo: One Artist, All the Nodes
PFTrack Solo adds 37 previously restricted nodes, opening photogrammetry, stereo and depth workflows to individual artists.
COLMAP Moves Into the Browser
Rafael Spring ports COLMAP’s sparse reconstruction workflow into a local browser app, with WebGPU acceleration and standard COLMAP output.
Open-Source Photogrammetry Gets Friendlier
Simple Photogrammetry GUI bundles an open-source reconstruction stack behind a friendly UI, now with beta AMD/HIP support and useful logs.
3DF Zephyr 9 Adds Gaussian Splatting
3DF Zephyr 9 integrates Gaussian Splatting and adds map tiles, faster photoconsistency, improved navigation and new export options.
Real Clay and Digital Ice Cream at Uber Eck
Clay sculptures, photos, Houdini MPM and Redshift made Kayak’s Greek ice cream statues melt on cue. Real dairy was less cooperative.
Adobe Sampler 6.0 Adds OpenPBR
Substance 3D Sampler 6.0 adds OpenPBR defaults, preset material templates, USD material export and updated HP Z Captis capture tools.
Splat happens: Volinga 3DGS workflow for Unreal
Volinga turns photo sets into Gaussian splats for Unreal, with local processing, PLY and NVOL export, cleanup tools, and relighting support. But what does that actually mean? Let's ask some questions!
Lux Aeterna rebuilds ancient humans
LiDAR caves, rigged skeletons, photogrammetry casts, and millimetre checks against research. Historical VFX gets very literal.
RealityScan 2.1.1 adds better COLMAP support and new XMP export options
RealityScan 2.1.1 is a maintenance release, but a practical one. Epic updates COLMAP exchange, adds new XMP with image list export options, cleans up mask export, and fixes a long list of editor, alignment, and CLI issues.
PFTrack update tidies Maya and LiDAR workflows
PFTrack update refines Maya export, LiDAR error handling and Survey Solver node logic for Studio and Enterprise users.
Infinity Hotel: Endless Rooms, Endless Renders
HFF Munich’s VFX students built Infinity Hotel, a hybrid short film merging live action with CGI, LiDAR scans, and Dolby Atmos sound.
Free 3D Fruit: Fresh Assets, No Pesticides
Kiri offers 141 free, production-ready 3D fruit and vegetable scans with full PBR textures under CC0 licence.
PFTrack 2025: Matchmoving gets its groove back
The Pixel Farm’s PFTrack 2025 delivers major lens, tracking, and mesh improvements plus new perpetual licence options.
Terrain Wrapping Made Easy: Kiri Engine’s Free Blender Add-on
Kiri Engine releases Mesh Wrap, a free Blender add-on that makes projecting and scattering 3D-scanned terrain pieces onto base geometry fast, precise, and non-destructive.
ZBrush 2026.1: Retopo & Assets
Retopology arrives as a sculpting native system, photogrammetry lands on iPad, and ZBrush’s assets finally move out of Program Files.
Epic Games updates RealityScan: 2.1 out
pic’s RealityScan 2.1 brings LiDAR & SLAM import, server automation tools and improved UV and rendering support.
RealityScan Mobile 1.8 with Tools for On-the-Go Scanning
Version 1.8 of RealityScan Mobile introduces three capture modes (including AR Guidance), mesh clean-up tools, focus peaking, capture timer and watertight mesh output: ideal for everybody capturing on-the-go.
Faster, wider, cleaner: KIRI Engine 4.0 drops mobile scan limits
KIRI Engine 4.0 slashes scan time, boosts photo limits, adds AR guidance and AI PBR and plus free users enjoy unlimited exports. Production-ready, at last.
Meshroom 2025.1: Templates, Plugins and Photometric Stereo
Update 2025.1: Meshroom adds templates, photometric stereo and a plugin hub. More open, modular and production-friendly.
Photogrammetry Parlor: Free 17-Mesh UE5 Asset Pack
Anderson Rohr has released a free Unreal Engine 5‑compatible photogrammetry pack with 17 high‑detail meshes and 4K–8K textures.
Skeleton Crew: How Halon Gave Ms. Blue Her Digital Bones
Halon preserved an 87-foot blue whale skeleton for AR using LiDAR, photogrammetry, and good timing—thanks to a foggy morning jog.
RealityScan 2.0: Epic Gives RealityCapture a New Name and New Tricks
Epic overhauls RealityCapture into RealityScan 2.0, complete with AI masking, LiDAR fusion, and a mobile-first workflow focus.
LiDAR scanning for Everybody!
Scanner veteran Lawren Bancroft-Wilson gives us a look behind the curtain on Lidar Scanning for VFX and Post.
Lidar Gets a Lift: Kiri Engine 3.14 Adds AI to Its Scanning Game
Kiri Engine 3.14 brings AI-enhanced Lidar scanning to mobile photogrammetry—plus depth map meshing, automatic alignment, and scene cleanup.
Adobe’s Substance 3D Sampler 5.0: Now with Path Tracing
Adobe's Substance 3D Sampler 5.0 introduces AI-powered 3D material creation and photogrammetry.
A Wrapping Revolution: Wrap 2024.11 & Wrap4D Unveiled
FaceForm updates Wrap and Wrap4D with enhanced node graph features, new brush tools, and a comprehensive blend rig pipeline for 3D scanning professionals.
PFTrack 24.12.19: Scene Reconstruction Gets a Makeover
And to keep track (Höhö) of the New Years Resolution, The The Pixel Farm releases a new version of PFTrack! The Pixel Farm's Version 24.12.19 introduces AI-powered enhancements to its photogrammetry toolset.
3DCoat 2024.30: New Year, New Tools for Your 3D Arsenal
Pilgway's 3DCoat 2024.30 introduces RealityCapture integration, enhanced boolean operations for 3D printing, and new array tools for streamlined workflows.
RealityScan 1.5.3 Update Eases 3D Scans with Better Processing for iOS
Epic’s RealityScan update brings flexible processing, smoother workflows, and better support for iPad Pro and image uploads.
TD Meetup 09: Photogrammetry
Photogrammetry is an important part of digital asset creation and has helped countless projects create realistic digital actors, assets and environments.
Update to the MAX
As always, numerous innovative, experimental technologies were
experimental technologies were presented by Adobe researchers and engineers. Surprisingly, the focus was on artificial intelligence.
The Beauty
This year's FMX trailer is "The Beauty" - if you're thinking "that looks familiar", you're right. The 2019 project won a number of awards, including an Animago "Jury Prize"
of the Jury". So it's all the better that
we can now show this film to even more people!
Turning cities into racing tracks with photogrammetry?
Photogrammetry tool Reality Capture, GoPro footage and drone footage: These are the three ingredients with which a developer has transformed an entire city into a racing track for the game Assetto Corsa. Start your engines!
A user-friendly 3D scanning app?
Qlone offers low-threshold photogrammetry: according to the developer, it's child's play to use. A mobile app for Apple and Android devices.
Photogrammetry app for Apple & Android handsets released!
Kiri Innovation is making a smartphone app available that turns real-world objects into 3D objects fairly quickly. Available free of charge and for a fee.
Capturing Reality in Houdini
Review: In DP 02 : 2019, we take a closer look at photogrammetry in Houdini. Our Houdini expert clarifies whether this has resulted in a production boost for game developers.
Building a Digital Human in Unreal Engine
A 20-minute behind-the-scenes film traces Renderpeople's digital-double workflow through photogrammetry, motion capture and Unreal Engine.
RealityCapture 1.2 Offered Free to Schools and Universities
Epic Games Slovakia offered educational institutions free RealityCapture licences through a university email and declaration-of-use process.
PhotoCatch Converts Photographs into USDZ Models with Apple Object Capture
Ethan Saadia’s free PhotoCatch app used Apple’s Object Capture API to build USDZ 3D models from sets of photographs.
3D Scan Store Releases Rendered Photorealistic Hand Scans
3D Scan Store released rendered hand-scan assets with 16K colour textures and supporting normal, displacement and specular maps.
RealityCapture 1.2 Tarasque Adds Measurement, Contours and Orthomosaic Tools
RealityCapture 1.2 Tarasque added volume and area calculations, contour export, height profiles and beta orthomosaic improvements.
Małopolska Virtual Museums Publishes Over 1,000 Historical 3D Scans
A collaboration among 40 Polish museums made more than 1,000 scans of historical objects available online, with most offered under Creative Commons licences.
Mod Tech Labs Explains Volumetric Video
Mod Tech Labs outlines a volumetric-capture workflow that records a subject from multiple angles and reconstructs an animated 3D mesh.
Vizoo xTex Automates Seamless Material Capture
Vizoo’s xTex scanner captures colour, normal, specular, bump, displacement and transparency maps and automates seamless tiling.
Aixterior: Digital nature from calibrated scans
Aixterior bundles scanned natural objects, texture atlases, material scans and HDRIs into coherent biome libraries for offline and realtime 3D work.
3DF Zephyr Tutorial Reconstructs a Brick Wall
Grzegorz Baran demonstrates a photogrammetry workflow using 3DF Zephyr, PhotoLab 3 and Substance Designer to build a digital brick wall.
RealityCapture 1.1 Adds AI Terrain Classification
RealityCapture 1.1 added AI terrain classification, LOD export to Cesium ion and Leica BLK3D ImageGroup import.
3DF Zephyr 5 Dragonfruit Released
3DF Zephyr 5 accelerated large photogrammetry datasets, added out-of-core meshing, sharper reconstruction and new workflow tools.
Photogrammetry: Surface Scanning with Monopod
A photogrammetry workflow for creating PBR materials with a monopod, Metashape and Substance Designer.
Facebuilder for Blender | Open Beta
KeenTools Facebuilder for Blender 2.8: The original Nuke tool is currently available as a free open Blender add-on beta!
RealityCapture with New Licenses
That can happen quickly: Capturing Reality changes its licenses. The offer for freelancers will end at the end of September.
Food: Free 3D Scans
And on we go with the asset collection for anyone who has not eaten dinner yet: Free 3D scans of apples, potatoes, carrots and more!
AliceVision: Photogrammetrie in Houdini
The open source photogrammetry tool in Houdini: SideFx releases free plug-in!
InstaLOD: Time is money
There are some things in a 3D artist's workflow that are probably considered rather unpopular. (cough ... unwrapping, retopo ... cough) And even if a kind soul takes pity on them, it still remains time-consuming. InstaLOD from Stuttgart is trying to help all companies from the entire 3D sector (film, games, automotive, etc.) with its software of the same name, and in doing so is speeding up and cleaning up much more than just the two black sheep mentioned.
Texture Haven
Completely crowd-funded, completely free. Texture Haven includes a texture website that makes high-quality textures available entirely free of charge. Also for commercial use!
Free Assets: Scans of Rock Ledges
Free environment assets: Environment artist Dmitry Kremiansky offers four scans of rock ledges with 8K to 16K textures!
Photogrammetry: Workflow Guide with Unity
Free ebook for the photgrammetry workflow: Unity has now released a guide to creating digital assets for the Unity pipeline.
Substance Designer, the Sixth
Allegorithmic does not hesitate with its updates: Substance Designer is now available in version 6.0 with many new features such as the scan process, 32-bit support for HDR textures and more!
Update: PFTrack 2017 Released
The new PFTrack 2017 update from Pixel Farm contains new features such as the integration of depth maps and automatic multi-channel export.
Photogrammetry in Building Management
Building inspection without scaffolding: Michael Radeck explains how an entire building can be inspected with a flying camera drone and low-cost software – and what has to be done to make it work. Tips, tricks and experience, using the inspection of a church tower as an example.
Autodesk Acquires REALVIZ Assets, Developer of Image-Based Content Software
The acquisition strengthens Autodesk's position in 2D and 3D design innovation.
Spider-Man | Retro article
Review: In DP 03 : 2002 came "With great power, great responsibility", as Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film became a huge success. We spoke to the visual effects designers about the tension of latex suits - and of course VFXs.
REALVIZ Launches ImageModeler 3.5 for Windows at Imagina
ImageModeler 3.5 brought photo-based 3D reconstruction, automatic texturing and improved calibration to Windows XP and 2000 for €/$750.
REALVIZ Releases ImageModeler 3.5 for Mac OS X
ImageModeler 3.5 brought photo-based 3D reconstruction, automatic texturing and a redesigned workflow to the Macintosh for the first time.
Scannova Automates Image Cutouts with Studio 2D and Scannova 35
Scannova combined blue-screen techniques and neural-network software to automate image cutouts and 3D product presentations.
Trimetric Offers Optical 3D Scanning with UV-Mapped Textures
Trimetric’s ATOS HR scanning service projected digital photographs onto measured polygonal geometry and generated UV-mapped textures.