These three models represent some of several stages the roman portrait bust of Julia Donma in the Eskenazi Museum of Art, went through to create a reconstructed 3D digital representation.

Technical

• Hundreds of images were taken of the portrait within the musem with an iPhone 7s.
• Agisoft Metashape Pro was used to photogrammetrize the images which resulted in a based 3D digital model.
• Blender was used to reconstruct and restore broken portions of the model.
• Adobe Substance Painter was then used to digitally paint and render the model.

Project

This project was a joint effort between the Advanced Visualization Lab & Eskenazi Museum of Art to reconstruct several Roman Portrait Busts.

What next?

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Credits

Images and protogrammetry processing - Scott Birch. Restoration, reconstruction, and painting - Michael Saari