3D models and videos from single images

This is a film made with the software 123D Catch from Autodesk. At the moment this is free software. You have to shoot about 30 images from different angles around an object. The software creates a true 3D-mesh-model out of it. It can also create a virtual camera movement along a path, which can be exported as a video.

See other examples here on my blog.

Yeti, Sasquatch, Bigfoot - Man-Apes of the Wild !

The rumor of big hairy manapes roaming the wilderness is being heard in some places around the world. There is the Yeti of the himalaya, Bigfoot in the USA, Sasquatch in Canada, Wookies an Kashyyyk... We seem to have a certain fascination about apelike creatures.
So watch some of these fierce creatures in their natural habitat !

Some thoughts on a Yeti - Diorama

The rumor of big hairy manapes roaming the wilderness is being heard in some places around the world. There is the Yeti of the himalaya, Bigfoot in the USA, Sasquatch in Canada, Wookies an Kashyyyk... We seem to have a certain fascination about apelike creatures.

Chewie !

Science says there have been large apes in the past.

Giganthopithecus blacki going extinct about 100,000 years ago after having been contemporary with (anatomically) modern humans (Homo sapiens) for tens of thousands of years, and co-existing with H. erectus before the appearance of H. sapiens. It is believed that adult male Gigantopithecus blacki stood about 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and weighed as much as 540 kg. Maybe we have some kind of a racial memory about it inside of us ?

 

So what about a little diorama about yetis?

There are some miniatures on the market, I like best the  yetis fromCopplestone.

How to paint them?

There a few variants on the net, as you can see below.
 Yeti expedition

And where to put them ?

I decided to make a little diorama with some kind of a cave, rocks and snow of course.

It's made of styrofoam (i hope this is the correct english word for it), cut with a sharp knife into the rough form.  I made a base, two layers for the cave and one for the roof.  To my surprise something happened when I used some black color spray to prime it. The color spray dissolved some parts of the surface, forming very nice sructures, which look pretty neat. 

How to let it snow ?

I put pva glue on some parts of the surface and applied some baby powder on it. This is a pretty dusty procedure, so be careful not to get fine white powder all over the room. Maybe I will fix the surface later on with some matte spray, but I will try this  on some test materials first.