3D Human Character Development

I began this post wanting to share something about the amazing technologies that are surfacing for 3D character development.  As technologies are always changing it is likely that this post may quickly age or also that I've missed a recently available or coming soon technology.  Please don't hesitate to comment and let me know of such new tech.  Some of this is not exactly new but may have recently come of age.  The intent is to share the barriers being broken and to consider what an advanced 3D character development pipeline should look like and which technologies it should include.

Photo Scanning

You can't help but love the detail and image map quality that you get from a tricked out Photo Scan.  And although it would be rather expensive to assemble one... I would love to have a Photo Scanning stage and the Pro Version of Agisoft PhotoScan (like the example below of James' rig at ten24).  Oh and while I'm asking I'd like his experience as well.

Be sure and watch the awesome piece that the scans were used on!

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