Portrait
There is a story that my mother tells me from time to time. She was with me when I was 3 years old at a crossroads when I started looking around. There was a lady with a big hat on her head, and I looked at her and said out loud, “Look, Mom, there’s a hat, and the hat is on the lady. Everyone around laughed, but this event marked the...
Composite images
As Spherehead, back in 2006, I created videos to accompany my tracks. Often I would mask out certain parts of a video and overlay it with another. I could create interesting effects, for example fish, swimming in a museum. I enjoyed making videos, they would take me everywhere, looking for locations and captivating content.A very good friend...
M.F.P.M.
You are stranded in Gallery Station in space, and you are looking for a way back to Earth. But first you have to find your way around the galleries and find the desks...
The Cosmographer
Cosmography, self invented, is writing with the cosmos. It is practiced by gazing at the stars with a telescope. The ultimate Cosmographers are Hubble and Webb, free from the effects of earth’s atmosphere their images are ultra crisp.One day I came across the work of Inigo...
The Eye
Once upon a time, there was an idea so big and all-encompassing that I was convinced it would conquer the world. The project was codenamed “The Eye,” and I assembled a team of 8 people, including 2 engineers, to make it a reality. The goal was to construct a hollow sphere with an image on the entire inner surface. The construction...
Building a 3D Scanner
Great things have small beginnings. I too started 3D scanning using only a single camera. In fact, I captured heads. Next I used 2 more cameras that I still had from my work as a photographer. Then for a long time I used an 8 camera setup that I used for scanning jobs all over Europe. From there I moved up to 18 cameras and so on. However, I was...
Clothing
In order for clothing to work in Poser software (DAZ, Poser, Reallusion), it needs to be in A-Pose. To get real clothing to work in needs therefore to be scanned on an A-Pose mannequin. The next step is to separate the doll from the clothing. Once all that is done, it looks like the clothing was photographed on a ghost...