How to make 3D scans of Classical Casts

Hello and welcome to this 2 hour workshop on how to make a 3D scan of one of the Classical Archaeology Museum’s casts of classical sculptures. By the end of this workshop, you should be equipped to make a scan like this one of the Terme Boxer’s head. We will be covering the basics of a technique called photogrammetry.

If at anytime during this tutorial, you do not understand or need clarification, please stop me and ask.

Tutorial pages

• What is photogrammetry?
• What equipment do I need?
• Choosing a subject
• Your photographic strategy
• Taking your photos
• First steps in Agisoft's photoscan
• Aligning your photos
• Building a dense cloud
• Cleaning a dense cloud
• Building a mesh
• Adding texture
• Uploading to Sketchfab
• Further reading
• Models created by participants

This guide is released as CC0. Some contents will have retained rights (eg Thomas Flynn’s scans and logos).