Then we’ll open up a 3d window and hit the calibrate active camera button.īlam now estimates the focal length of the image and shows the value it came up with here. Now we can tell blam the orientation of our lines. Next we’ll create a new grease pencil layer and identify some more lines perpendicular to the first two lines.

These will help blam to understand the perspective of our image. Now we’ll use the grease pencil by holding control d, and draw a minimum of two lines parallel to each other, along the geometry of our image. Then click on the open button and bring in your 2d image. Let’s change the window type to the movie clip editor Now we have these additional photo modeling tools at our disposal in the toolbar. Let’s quickly install and activate it in the preferences. If you needed to rig and animate the person, then you would have to re-mesh the whole thing.In this fast speed video tutorial we use the free Blam -addon in order to quickly turn a regular photograph into a 3D scene with a technique sometimes referenced as camera mapping or camera projection. All that is explained in the article I linked.Įdit1: The output of this method is more or less useful depending on what you need it for. Please note that there's proprietary software that also allows to do this, but depending on what you need it for, you will have to pay for it. Which for a human is difficult to say the least.īut beyond those points, it's totally doable, in fact there's a multi-camera setup that allows to do this in just one picture, since it has all 50 cameras pointing in all the different needed angles at once. You need at least 50 pictures of the object (In this case the person) in the same exact perfect position without moving an inch.You need to have some command line knowledge and be prepared to fail a few times.

The free software to perform the photogrammetry is VERY (note: VERY) difficult to install.

The free software to perform the photogrammetry does not allow for commercial use.A while ago I followed this guide to do exactly what you want:

2d to 3d in blender