I took the photos for this scan of Major - an iconic bronze sculpture in Downtown Durham by Leah Foushee and Mike Waller - on June 8th during the George Floyd protests. I think this sculpture is the defacto city mascot in the minds of many Durhamites and seeing it decked out like this with chalk expressions struck me as an image that captured the national moment through a Durham lens. A few days later rain had washed most of it away.
This scan was comprised of roughly 2000 images that I took with a Canon 60D and an iphone 11. I processed the images in Agrisoft Metashape and generated the UVs and maps in Zbrush. The chalk functioned similar to the way registration points do and helped the photogrammetry algorithms. As a result the geometry of the mesh came out a bit cleaner than my earlier scan of Major.
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