KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: PNG to 3D

I converted one of my PNG files (of my drawing) into a 3D object.

3D This

View my drawing as a 3D file

Download the OBJ file here (566.84 KB)
(or download the ZIP: containing the OBJ and MTL files -- 189.81 KB).

SculptGL

EZGif

Animated GIF of my drawing in 3D

(but without the image texture wrap)

PhotoAnim

software

I went from 2D into 3D using the free PhotoAnim software (download from Cnet).

There are easy tutorials on how to use the software -- I used "Real photo to 3D" to create my 3D file.

PhotoAnim tutorials

Real photo to 3D

The "Real photo to 3D" takes you to the YouTube tutorial:

PhotoAnim YouTube tutorial

"Real photo to 3D" tutorial on YouTube

My 3D Drawing

example

PNG files with transparent backgrounds are the key. I have a whole selection of them from my last blog post.

"Busy April in Review"

From my last blog post,

I downloaded the second PNG file

"April 21, 2020"

I turned this PNG

into a 3D file

I imported my PNG file into the PhotoAnim software, and followed the tutorial -- "Animate Mode" icon (outlined green border), Animation/Initialize/3D from Front View Image/...:

PhotoAnim

I hit "Symmetry," and toyed with the settings

(Guard Ring setting, all the way to the right)

I readjusted the orientation of the OBJ file in Blender 2.82a:

Blender 2.82

I reoriented the OBJ file in Blender

so that it was perpendicular to the floor

(before it was laying on it's side, on the ground)

I uploaded the OBJ file in to the online program SculptGL, and added a background to it for fun (from a previous blog posting, "Edging Towards Composition -- Part 4").

SculptGL

"Edging Towards Composition -- Part 4"

Imported into SculptGL

I made the animated GIF at the beginning of this blog post, from screen captures in ScupltGL, without the background.

SculptGL

I can edit and re-sculpt the OBJ file online

in SculptGL

3D This

Another 2D to 3D example

Again, the PNG files with transparent backgrounds were critical to creating a decent 3D file. A regular drawing would just be pasted on a 3D ball or object using the PhotoAnim software. However the outlines around a transparent PNG file stitch together nicely, to give a 3D file with unique contours. Like they were sopapillas, inflating in the deep fryer.

BACK TO THE FUTURISTS

UMBERTO BOCCIONI

digital sculpture

I admire the sculpture of the Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni (1882 - 1916).

I noticed that Ander Raden and Matt Smith had recreated four lost sculptures of Boccioni from 2D photos, with 3D digital technology.

"Umberto Boccioni:Recreating the Lost Sculptures"