Photogrammetry Madness - nature stuff (Patreon)

Hey hey!! :D

So I took like 3000 pictures around my yard yesterday (and a few out in the mountains on the Olympic Peninsula today), and I've been trying to optimize the resulting photoscanned models. I've been really pleased with how it's turning out, but I'm also learning a ton about what works and what doesn't (I kind of half-assed a dry riverbed, and it turned out perfect whereas I took like 200+ careful pictures of a fern and still ended up with a vaguely fern-like blob.)

The trickiest part is trying to find the balance of how much to simplify the geometry, mostly  (and dialing in the diffuse/glossy/translucent settings), but it's very likely these are going to be heftier than usual assets, geometry-wise.

So yeah- some of them are kinda medium quality, but if you want them I'll be uploading them for the tier 7 folks pretty quick here, but it might take me a few days (this weekend is going to be nuts, but in a good way). I also might want to add more before I upload- we'll see. I also have a whole little cyberpunky crowd of photoscanned/rigged background folks I need to get all cleaned up for upload here (maybe shooting a bunch more this weekend!)- I'm stoked for that one :D.

For a bit of context, future Dynamo episodes are going to take place in a kind of over-the-top forest, and while most of the digital extension stuff I do is because we can't practically build a whole scifi city street type deal, I still want to be able to take some of the same control/workflow into a more natural environment, ideeeeally.

Also dang it's so fun to run around in this place in eevee (although you can see a bit what I mean about the fern blobs):