Popcorn Bowl

3D Model

Made from 321 photos in 3DF Zephyr.

I decided to make this model out of a passion for popcorn. Only the best 100% handmade popcorn was used to make this prop for scanning. And a dozens of grams of hot glue.

1 popcorn flake is glued to the bowl

1 popcorn flake!

Heat up glue gun, squeeze some glue down

2 popcorn flakes are glued to the bowl…

Only the top layer is glued. Bottom layers are sealed with a cardboard cover. The bowl is a bit transparent and now you can see that there’s popcorn insde.

The bowl itself was also prepared for scanning - it was painted for better reconstruction. It didn’t help very much though. Popcorn appeared very well after tweaking the photoconsistency parameters but bowl always had bumpy and uneven surface. It took a lot of work to separately patch/smooth/retopology only the bowl. Every action could shrink or distort the bowl.

There’re still places between popcorn and bowl with bad geometry but you can cover it with separate model of popcorn flake