Component 1 – Workshop 5&6
Day 4 of component 1 saw a trip to Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) for workshops 5 and 6, the photogrammetry session and post-production respectively.
The chosen models of each group donned their selected costumes and makeup, ready for the shoot in HKDI’s Photogrammetry Lab. 102 cameras are set up in a cage which enables 1-2 models with minor props to be captured into 3D with a single snapshot.
As the photogrammetry lab can only accommodate 1 group at a time and needed 20 minutes to shoot and process a scene, other groups patiently set up their scenes and finalised makeup for the big shoot. A large proportion of the 20 minutes was used to pull and process the high-quality images from 102 cameras. This made the margin of error in setting up the props, makeup, costumes, and pose very narrow.
Participants were not involved in the post-production process as this is too complicated. They still had a chance to experience how HKDI technicians use the software to clean up and retouch the data to create the 3D photogrammetry scene.