Using either Meshroom or Adobe 3d Sampler (you’ll have to use an old version – Adobe took away this ability in the newest version), make a detailed 3D scan of yourself. Light it in an interesting way. The portrait can be a full body or just a bust. Render a 4k still of the portrait. Then make a short five second looping animation with the portrait. You could animate the mesh, the camera, the lights, or something else.
Deliverables:
- One 4k render as an openEXR still frame. The openEXR file settings should be RGB, Float (Half), and codec compression DWAA (lossy) at 90% quality.
- One 5 second 1920×1080 30fps h265 mp4
- Project ‘write-up’
Addendum for FA25 – Getting Meshroom 2025 on the lab computers – BIG DATA:
Step 1: Download Meshroom from this link – scroll down to the “Windows 2025.1.0 64-bit” link: https://alicevision.org/#meshroom
The app is almost 10GB, so it will take a while to download ~30m to 60m on campus.
Step 2: Once the zip file has finished downloading, unzip it. (right-click, Extract All). You can unzip it in your downloads folder, or to another location. I have noticed it doesn’t launch from the Programs folder on the lab PCs in 211, so don’t try to move it there. Just leave the unzipped folder in your downloads or move it to your desktop. Unzipping a 10GB file will take 5-10 minutes. It will create a 15GB folder.
Step 3: Launch Meshroom – find the Meshroom.exe file in the Meshroom folder. Double-click it. On some computers, the ‘exe’ is hidden’.
Step 4: Bypass security – If this is the first time you are launching Meshroom, Windows will throw a blue warning at you. Just click Options, then click Run Anyway. YOLO!
In my superb class demo I used Meshroom 2023. You are using Meshroom 2025 and the interface is slightly different. When you first launch it, it will show you a whole bunch of buttons. Just find the one that says ‘Photogrammetry’ and click it like you mean it. Note, you are welcome to explore all the other wonderful things Meshroom can do.
The interface will then look like it did in the demo from class.
When I tested Meshroom on the lab computers with the same data set I used in the demo, it took about one hour to process. So plan accordingly.
Your instructor’s example with the help of N. Metcalf:
Student work: A. Warnes: