Sad to say that, just shy of 7 years at Sketchfab, I'm part of the Epic Games layoffs.
Not sure what's next for me / what it means the cultural heritage program, but for now I'm just letting it sink in.
Any suggestions for remote work related to 3D + museum-y stuff welcome 🙏
All our
@Sketchfab
models are now free for download! Use them for your science, education, games or, well, just for fun... We'd be happy to see and share whatever you do with them ;-)
Sorry to hear about the fire at
@MuseuNacional
in Rio de Janeiro. Several collection objects have been digitised in 3D by individuals as well as the museum's Laboratório de Egiptologia.
I made a collection of what I could find on
@Sketchfab
:
While 3D is by no means a substitute for preventative care, hopefully it can help in reconstruction and restoration.
I'm not aware of any official 3D scans of Notre Dame de Paris, but I've drawn a small collection together here:
Amazing
#3D
scans of tiiiny (many less than 10mm in size) by the Darmstadt Insect Scanner 3D (DISC3D) team at Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt:
#entemology
#bugs
#insects
🐞🐜🦗🕷️🦟
This has been a long time in the works - I'm really glad it's finally live!Party popper
1600+
#3D
models, 27 GLAM organisations, 13 countries - and this is just the beginning of
@Sketchfab
's support for
#OpenAccess
&
#openGLAM
Announcing our
#OpenAccess
initiative for cultural heritage
#3D
!
27 world class organizations including
@smithsonian
have released 100s of models through Sketchfab under the
@creativecommons
CC0 dedication.
Blog post👉
3D models 👉
Today's my official final day! Sad to go but looking forward to the next chapter 🥲
I've handed off management of Sketchfab's Cultural Heritage Program and no longer have access to email inboxes etc.
Please direct all discount & renewal inquiries to museums
@sketchfab
.com
Sad to say that, just shy of 7 years at Sketchfab, I'm part of the Epic Games layoffs.
Not sure what's next for me / what it means the cultural heritage program, but for now I'm just letting it sink in.
Any suggestions for remote work related to 3D + museum-y stuff welcome 🙏
Despite being on the way out of my role, I'd like to keep sharing my favourite
#3D
cultural heritage finds from
@sketchfab
each week - does that sound good, dear followers?
This week's collection 👉
#GLAM3d
#OpenGLAM
Ran out of time to tell
#DigiDoc2018
everything I wanted to on Friday, so I've added notes to my slides about online
#3D
for you here:
A PDF version if you don't like GIFs or video:
...and a 10 second video if you're in a rush:
I passed $1k in revenue on my
@Sketchfab
Store this month 🎉
Not bad for something I don't promote at all: the 'footfall' to the Store + the 3D viewer pretty much do all the work for me 💪
V.happy to make this announcement official:
📢Over 100,000 cultural heritage & history
#3D
models now on
@Sketchfab
!🗿🏺🖼️
A massive THANK YOU💕to all the individuals & institutions sharing their amazing 3D work!🎉
Full post on the blog:
In 2012,
@sciencemuseum
's Shipping Gallery was permanently closed, but not before it was captured via laser scan & recorded as a 3D 'point cloud'.
For the first time, you can now interactively explore this data from the Museum on
@sketchfab
:
🛥🚢⚓⛵🔍
Wishing everyone a very happy
#SketchfabDay
- 7 years of pushing the boundaries of online
#3D
! 🥳🎊
Here's my first ever upload: one of the lions from Temple of Soleb in Nubia, currently in Egyptian gallery at
@britishmuseum
Explore 650+ other uploads:
Explore an amazing collection of *250* impressive
#3D
scans of artifacts from the Roman legionary fortress of Carnuntum, some of which date back more than 2,000 years.
👉
Excellent work as always by
@vasilistoxo
@Sketchfab
Hi - as Cultural Heritage Lead at Sketchfab I can confirm that we will keep supporting and promoting cultural heritage 3D as we have been doing👍
I wrote something for the
@Sketchfab
Blog!
"Cleaning up a 3D Scan in Blender" includes step-by-step guides + video (at normal speed😉) for 7 techniques & tools for fixing up an existing
#3D
scan in
@Blender
.
Read now 👉
We've just launched a
@Sketchfab
challenge for 3D artists to remix ancient art and artifacts! What will our creative community come up with when mixed with amazing cultural heritage content?!
More info and how to enter:
Anyone interested in a '
#3D
for cultural heritage' stream / video hangout?
I thought for a start I could share some ways to build 3D models using existing 2D imagery, as that may be more manageable from home.
Did you know that if parts of your
#3D
model are assigned different materials, it's possible to control their visibility using the
@Sketchfab
API?
Explore the anatomy of a Hemisus guineensis (Guinea Piglett frog):
I went to
@AMNH
and met a T-Rex - here she is (plus some of the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs) captured as a point cloud!
View in
#3D
/
#VR
:
Learn more about T-Rex on the museum's site:
On my way to
#ShareCareX
#ShareCare19
& looking forward to all I'll learn!
Also happy to share that
@Sketchfab
recently broke 100,000
#3D
models in the Cultural Heritage & History category🎉
17,000+ are free to download via
@creativecommons
licenses:
Some absolutely bonkers detail in this annotated microCT scan showing an ant's miniscule jaw muscles 🐜🔍
Click through and explore the
#3D
model yourself and have your comparably gigantic mind blown 🤯
Ever wondered how an ant actually eats? Then this new preprint by
@EvanEconomo
and me may be right for you!
We review feeding mechanism and structures. Also check out the accompanying 3D models via
@sketchfab
An anthropomorphic vessel, an ivory reliquary, target practice from Vindolanda, Roman dice, a sword, a bead + more: the
@Sketchfab
Top 10 Cultural Heritage & History
#3D
models is out!
Explore online right now, in
#VR
&
#AR
:
Had the fortune of working with
@JWexlerBM
while at the British Museum - UK needs wonderful & dedicated people like her in its research ecosystem. Should seek to attract them not push them away!
The quickest way I know to create an
#AR
/
#VR
picture gallery
1. Go to while signed in to your
@Sketchfab
account.
2. Paste in your
@instagram
handle
3. Click "Create VR Gallery"
4. Share & Enjoy!
Visit the example from the video:
Finally got around to creating a quick demo of 2D >
#3D
using
#OpenAccess
images from
@NHM_Digitise
@NHM_London
()
Zoom in to examine this microscope slide and the tiny ♂️♀️ Passonomedea hopkinsi lice up close and personal:
🐜🔬✨
I shared my point cloud of Hintze Hall with Jasper Corker-Marin, masters student at Bournemouth University - always cool to see the artistic possibilities when re-using cultural heritage 3D data ☔️✨
.
@DEJPett
(who made these + literally hundreds of other 3D scans for the BM) has been massively helpful & generous toward me as I've established a career in the field of 3D+museums.
A supportive, kind & all round awesome chap - can't wait to see what he does next!
What happens when you ask digital 3D artists to remix ancient works of art? Some pretty stylish, inventive and sometimes humorous creations!
Explore these entries and more in 3D:
Some great new
#3D
models being uploaded by
@NHM_IAC
:
Includes Proceratosaurus and auroch skulls, displacement analysis of an Archaeopteryx lithographica fossil and the ammonite pavement in Lyme Regis 👏👏👏
@NHM_Digitise
@NHM_London
Today marks 5 years at
@Sketchfab
for me & I'm still feeling lucky to be part of this excellent team 🙏
Seems like a good moment to share some of my profile stats 😎
👥 36.9k followers
👀 1.1M views
👍 32.1k likes
🔺86.7M triangles
• 80.0M vertices
After last week's announcement, would anyone be interested in hearing the reasons some cultural organisations were unable to join Sketchfab's Public Domain
#3D
launch?
I don't want to 'name & shame' so info would be anonymised.
#OpenAccess
📢Fun fact: Out of all the millions of users on
@Sketchfab
, the account with *by far* the most downloads exclusively posts 3D scans of cultural heritage content.
What might surprise you that is that it's not a museum - it's the prolific
@GeoffreyMarchal
! Thank you Geoffrey! 🙌🙏
Małopolska’s Virtual Museums just dedicated 1,000 cultural heritage
#3D
models on
@Sketchfab
to the public domain!
✅ High quality
#3D
assets
✅ Awesome variety
✅ 100% free to download & re-use for any purpose
Learn about the release & browse assets 👉
3D scanning enthusiast
@GeoffreyMarchal
has just hit 30,000(!) followers on
@Sketchfab
, more than any single museum on the platform.
Geoffrey regularly posts 3D scans of publicly available art and museum artifacts:
The age of the tourist 3D snap is here!
Scan of King Richard III's grave by
@uniofleicester
Archaeological Services has just passed 100,000 views on
@Sketchfab
!
Explore the
#3D
model for yourself:
Featuring 4 models from
@Sketchfab
- if you make you 3D data freely available and downloadable people will do amazing things with it.
cc.
@DEJPett
- your Rosetta stone scan lives on :)
.
@Sketchfab
user Jurand Macioszczyk () provides an exhaustive comparison of photogrammetry software from
@_3Dflow_
@RealityCapture_
and Agisoft in this in-depth blog post:
Peace. Solidarity. Dignity.
Freedom. Unity. Europe.
Today, we mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – a decisive moment in European history.
#mauerfall30
New cataloguing and digitisation
@britishlibrary
The King's Topographical Collection was originally stored in the King's Library
@britishmuseum
and accessed there via an 1829 catalogue.
How it started How it's going
100% recommend anyone looking for an easy way to make their 3D scans 'web ready' read this article - includes free scripts + workflow to automatically optimize 3D models using
@blender_org
. Even better, you can connect it to your
@Sketchfab
acc. using your API key 👏👏👏
This is how I got into photogrammetry while member of staff at the BM: morning coffee in the canteen then photography in this gallery while no one was around. A massive privilege!
If only I knew then what I do now about capturing and editing 3D :)
On
#WorldHeritageDay
why not spend some time browsing some of the 80,000+ historical & scientific
#3D
scans, reconstructions and re-imaginings on
@Sketchfab
?
🗿🏺⛩️🦕🏛️🔭🐳🏰📯🏯🐚
Big congratulations to
@rigsters
for hitting 2,500 followers on
@Sketchfab
🎉
Explore their spectacular 3D scans👉
Learn about their ingenious multi-spectral photogrammetry project on the blog👉