We’ve had our first success! Using a photo set that focused exclusively on a head, rather than on a whole body, seems to have been the trick.
Another factor that could have gone into this is the better hardware we now have access to. We’ve started using an IDeATe Alienware laptop to do our photo processing, and it’s made the whole process much cleaner. Because of how much stronger the laptop is than the machine’s we’ve been using, we’re able to create higher poly models without sacrificing days to the process.
Now that we have our first successful model, our goal is to use this process to create a full model. We’re going to test what happens if we do a lot of close-up shots on a person’s key features, like their face, and then follow those with full body shots. We hope that getting high-detail captures of key areas will let the software use those areas to better align the other photos it has, giving us the accuracy we were missing in our original tries.
We’ll be back next week with some new tests of this process, and hopefully with a full body model!