Creaform's Blog - News, Opinions, Tips & Tricks about 3D technologies » multimedia http://blog.creaform3d.com News, Opinions, Tips & Tricks about 3D technologies Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Creaform’s new tool for human body scanning! http://blog.creaform3d.com/2010/01/creaform%e2%80%99s-new-tool-for-human-body-scanning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=creaform%25e2%2580%2599s-new-tool-for-human-body-scanning http://blog.creaform3d.com/2010/01/creaform%e2%80%99s-new-tool-for-human-body-scanning/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:27:25 +0000 Daniel Brown http://blog.creaform3d.com/?p=424 What a great news! Creaform is confirming today the acquisition of InSpeck: a company that manufactures and markets 3D scanning system specialized in human-body scanning. This will enlarge (and complement) our set of tools in order to satisfy the needs of our multimedia customers (and others like medical, plastic surgery…). Concretely, this will allow Creaform to offer a scanner perfectly suited to digitize all parts of the human body: head, hands, half-body and full body scans. No invasive techniques are used to acquire the data (you don’t have to touch the person) and the scan is done in seconds!

This could be really useful for scanning actors’ faces for movies and video games (since they don’t want to spend the whole day with the 3D artists…). Here are some examples from the digitalization of baseball players:

Alez RodriguezDerek Jeter

]]> http://blog.creaform3d.com/2010/01/creaform%e2%80%99s-new-tool-for-human-body-scanning/feed/ 1 3D is Always Better in Color! http://blog.creaform3d.com/2009/11/3d-is-always-better-in-color/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=3d-is-always-better-in-color http://blog.creaform3d.com/2009/11/3d-is-always-better-in-color/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:01:05 +0000 Daniel Brown http://blog.creaform3d.com/?p=258 The VIUscan: what a great tool! Since the beginning of Creaform, it is the product that has created the most enthusiasm among people, at least the non-3D guys. People that are not familiar with 3D are always amazed when I show them the scan of my face or the scan of a common object like a banana, a rock wall: “Wow, it’s so realistic!” And a little bit creepy sometimes…

But, what about the pros, what do they think of the 3D textured scans that you create from the VIUscan? Can they do actual productions with them?

Of course they can! Last summer, I visited Remnant Studios, based in San Jose CA. They are a visual effects studio that creates pretty cool stuff for all kinds of multimedia applications. They are using a VIUscan for a few months now. I was amazed to see all the great models they did and the scenes they could create with the scans (and a little bit of work…). Here is the video they produced to show the secrets of scanning for multimedia:

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