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Got to work on these guys because some of these creatures were my inspiration of what they would have looked like in color and others are at an art show. Wonder what animals will you like to see when its unleashed before your very eyes?

I mentioned photogrammetry in a thread on micro vertebrate material by @jpc I was going to post this in there, but thought I'd post it in its own thread. - What is photogrammetry? - There are a couple of tutorials on TFF about photogrammetry. Here: Creating a 3D model of fossils using photogrammetry - Fossil Photography - The Fossil Forum And here: 3D Fossil Scanning W/ Photogrammetry - Fossil Photography - The Fossil Forum But briefly, it is the process of making a 3D model from photos. You can make a 3D model from something small to something large. From an individual fossil, to a complete landscape! You just need enough photos to cover all the angles and there needs to be enough overlap between photos so the software can match them up. - How can I do it? - The software uses features to make a 3D point cloud and then uses that information to make a more detailed model based on every pixel (a depth map). - Meshroom is easy to use with default settings. And it FREE. You just drag and drop your photos and hit "start". Of course you can get more fancy with time and start editing the settings! - Link to Meshroom download here. It is a non-profit FREE software platform: AliceVision | Photogrammetric Computer Vision Framework - Photogrammetry may be an option for "collecting" fossils that you might prefer to leave in the field. They are too large, you are in a national park etc. Then you have the option of 3D printing one for yourself at any scale when you get home. They did this for large whale fossils in S. America I recall. - Here are four images from the process of making a 3D model of a Zoophycos trace fossil from New Zealand. I hope this inspires a few of you into the world of photogrammetry! And like those email signature lines that say "before you print, think about the environment" we might "think before we collect, think about others". Maybe leave that big block of fossils on the beach and do your back a favor too. Oh I'm running it on a laptop with 32 G of memory. You can get by with 16. Keep in mind the more photos you have and the more detail you ask of the software the longer it will take. But just leave it running overnight and wake up to a 3D model - Clockwise from top left. 1. One of 25 images taken using an Iphone 12 in the field. 2. An example of the pipeline in Meshroom software that shows you how many features it identified and matched to all the other angles. 3, The final 3D model. 4. The 3D model with photos draped over the top. The trace fossil is 20cm across (about 8 inches). Hope you enjoyed this and feel free to ask any questions about how to do this. Its very easy once you know how.

Hello together, its been some time since I posted a model, and there are quite a few unfinished ones in the making. realizing how small Atopodentatus' iconic head was in relation to its body, I decided to rather try and print a lifesize skull than a complete downscaled skeleton. Morphing recent species' skulls has the advantage that you get anatomically looking detail, although on the other hand it is wrong detail. So I would much appreciate feedback when you spot something particularly wrong. @pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon? And Atopodentatus took some morphing. Here is how far I got: Best Regards, J

Does anyone know where to look up 3D scanned dinosaur eggs? Are there museums with open access to eggs then have scanned? I've been trying to locate some models to 3D print, but they seem few and far between.

Hi Guys, I'm new on here and I am a 3D Artist or Artist in general from 2D Illustrations to 3D. I really enjoyed learning as a child about dinosaurs and all animals. My Dad still holds on to my old Dinosaur toys and animal cards to this day and wont give them back to have something to remember me by. I will be 3D Modeling this Ammonite and animating it. I will share my progress on here with you all. I have an image below of my fossil as well as a 3D scan of it I had done, a while back at the Siggraph animation / technology convention by 3 rivers 3D. http://www.3rivers3d.com/gallery1.html. Thanks, William