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Statement  14 days later and we’re so pleased to announce that together we have raised £77,110 in support of those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine. As previously stated we will be donating this sum to the Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal.   We at 3DScanstore are in complete awe of the outpouring of support we’ve received for our Red ..

    Introduction We are proud to announce the release of our new and totally free multi expression base mesh. The aim of this product is to give you the ability to quickly and easily add scan based expressions to your head sculpts.  All of the expressions used in the pack have been captured using our photogrammetry rig and then transferred to o..

  Introduction In this tutorial I want to show you how to use our new HD Displacement maps. First I want to give you a little bit of information about the maps themselves. They have been extracted from our HD head scans as 16bit displacements, we had to use a combination of Zbursh and Xnormal to do this as Zbrush's default displacement expor..

  48 Male And Female 3D Head Models Created From High Resolution Scans We've expanded our library of 3D head scans to 48 male and female 3D head models all with animation ready topology, separate eyes, lens, eye lashes and teeth. Ready to use in any real-time application or offline render.        Interchangeable Texture Maps All of our ret..

Introduction In this tutorial we are going to look at how to setup a fairly simple skin shader using a 3d scan from our store. For the purposes of this article I’m only going to be focusing on the skin and completely ignoring things like the eyes and hair. I’m going to make this a 2-part tutorial so this will show you the basics of how to setu..

3D Scan Shading with Sketchfab    By James Busby I'm sure almost everyone has heard of or played with Sketchfab by now but recently they have added some nice new subsurface scattering and screen space ambient occlusion features which has turned it into a pretty powerful real-time viewer, especially for characters. In this article, I'm going ..

2 Minute Tutorial - Head Retopology for cleanup By James Busby When it comes to cleaning up scan data you should always start with the best geometry you can. Working from RAW triangulated meshes can and will result in messy cleanup jobs with unwanted artefacts and floating geometry. In this video Im going to show you how to very quickly and v..

Scan to Render Workflow Time-lapse By James Busby The video below represents around 11 hours of work compressed into a 10-minute video. As you can see the scan we used in this video was very noisy. As I'm sure a lot of you know by now Photogrammetry works by picking up surface details on an object and comparing corresponding points on multipl..