How to make a 3D bas-relief model from a photograph. We lift the model from the image. Stages of creating a painting yourself using the bas-relief technique

When modeling a portrait, it is advisable to use several photographs of a person. The main one is the direct view, or the one in which the person should be depicted on the bas-relief.

Additionally, a side view or half-turn view for more precise detailing.

One photograph was used to model this portrait. You can see a comparison of the model with the photo below.

An additional parameter that we try to discuss is cosmetics. Women have learned to work with their instruments so masterfully that visually the shape of the face and expression can change in almost any direction. At the same time, the shape of the face itself does not change, only its perception.

3D model

Bas-relief is always a slightly flattened image. The full form is already a high relief or sculpture. The photo below shows what a half-turn portrait looks like.

If it is not known in advance in what dimensions the product will be milled, then we use a 50x40 cm mold for portraits. Then, using this model, you can make a bas-relief one meter high.

Bas-relief is a raised convex image that extends beyond the background plane by a maximum of 50% of its own volume. This type of art originated in ancient times during the era of polio, when people, in order to communicate with each other, carved certain signs on rocks, stones or carved wood. We propose to combine the ancient technique of self-expression with technical innovations and transform it into a new direction - 3D bas-relief. Studio 3DKLON uses 3D modeling technology to produce any 3D bas-reliefs to order.

We provide our clients big choice, bas-relief figures can be made from various materials different sizes and for different purposes. Depending on the method of creation, bas-reliefs are divided into cast and carved, and according to the material used in the production process into stone, wood and metal. Our managers will advise you on the most suitable option for your specific case and help you decide on the material and method of making the 3D bas-relief.

How to use

The scope of application of bas-reliefs is multifaceted and varied. These three-dimensional sculptural images are exhibited in museums and used in funeral services, interior design, architecture and other fields.

Studio 3DKLON produces bas-reliefs for monuments, memorial plaques, plaques and memorial plates. For such cases, choose our bas-reliefs made of marble or granite.

In addition, a bas-relief of a face from a photograph can become a stylish piece of furniture. Order a beautiful bas-relief for your bedroom in the form of a painting, a panel on the wall, or make a bas-relief on wood from family photo and decorate your living room with a non-standard interesting 3D image. We can create a bas-relief of a leader from bronze or copper from a photo. Guaranteed this one original gift will surprise your boss and perfectly complement the design of his office.

Another area of ​​application for bas-relief based on drawings and photographs is jewelry making. Our specialists make a three-dimensional mini-image from precious metals, stones in the form of small pendants or medallions.

Features of creation

To make a bas-relief from a photograph, one photo will be enough, preferably High Quality and our specialists will create a 3D model of the bas-relief using computer modeling. In special professional program ZBrush sculpting uses a semi-automatic method of “lifting from a photograph” to make a print, then it is processed by the professionals of the 3DKLON studio, who have art education. The result is a bas-relief that is as similar as possible to the person from whose photo it was created.

The manufacturing process may be different, using a 3D scanning procedure. In this case, we guarantee that the similarity of the portrait bas-relief with the original will be 100%.

Placing an order

There are several ways to order a 3D bas-relief from a photograph:

Come to our office and personally discuss all the details of the order with our manager, see the finished products live. The offices of the 3DKLON studio are located in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan.

Call the phone number listed on home page website or on the Contacts tab, calls within the Russian Federation are free.

Leave a request on our official website, provide contact information, and a 3DKLON studio employee will call you back and help you place an order to create a bas-relief of a person.

The cost of a bas-relief created from a photo depends on the complexity of the 3D modeling work, the material from which it will be made, and the size of the bas-relief figurine. Call us and our specialists will calculate the exact price for you.

We deliver to all regions of the Russian Federation, near and far abroad countries. You don’t have to live in Moscow or St. Petersburg to become our client. Place an order, send a photo to our email address and receive the finished product by mail.

A 3D bas-relief model from a photo is an extraordinary, special gift for family, friends or colleagues that will delight them for a long time. Order a bas-relief, and you can forever preserve the past in your memory, capture those joyful moments that you want to return to again and again.

Good day everyone!

I often come across advertisements asking me to model something simple, like cookie cutters, or asking questions about how to make some simple detail. The other day in the comments they asked to drop the “Sh” model of the “Spikes” sign. In response to a push in the right direction, I usually received a response in the form of a request to post step-by-step instructions. Well, let's try it. Let's start with something simple, and then as it goes, it will be interesting to the comrades, so we'll continue. All pictures from 3D Today, all rights belong to their authors, what users posted, that’s what we work with.

Task one “Cookie cutter”, aka “magnet”, aka “keychain”

Photoshop+ZBrush

Given a picture, I want to make a refrigerator magnet out of it.

We need to get clear contours, but a picture with gradients, gradients will interfere, later you will understand their pros and cons.

So, open the image in Photoshop, and apply the Stamp filter, set Light/Dark Balance to 1, and Smoothness to 1 as well.

Let's invert the colors.

A similar effect can be achieved in another way

Opening the image

Convert to indexed colors Image > Mode > Indexed Color > OK

Changing curves Image > Ajustments > Curves

Now you need to make the lines clearer, fill in the knocked out pixels, to do this, click the MagicWand with the following parameters on any white point in the picture.

All white points in the pattern will be selected.

Invert the selection Select > Inverse

Increase the selection thickness by 1 pixel. Select > Modify > Expand > 1px

We paint over everything selected with black, remove the selection, invert the colors, convert them to RGB colors, the image is brought to the desired form, and save.

It's good when the picture has contours. Well, what to do when there are no contours? We need to make them. Here is a picture in advertisements about the need for die-cut stamps of letters for mastic. Select the letters with MagicWand, go to Select > Modify > Border and set the desired border thickness, for example 3 pixels. Then we proceed according to the standard scheme. Make everything inside the selection white and everything outside black. Let's save.

Now let's get to the fun part. Let's create volume.

Open ZBrush.

In LightBox, open the object on which we will create the relief. I'll choose ThickPlane as an example.

I select a standard brush, application type DragRect (stretching a rectangle)

In alpha we import a black and white image.

Use the Divide button to raise the level of detail to maximum.

In the Brush / Auto Masking menu, click the BackfaceMask button so that the back side of the object is not pressed in.

And now, with one movement from the center, we draw the relief.

It’s suitable for cutting out, but to get a badge/keychain you should either do a complete filling, or paint over the drawing in grayscale. Moreover, the lighter the color, the more it will protrude above the surface.

Why can’t you just import the drawing, but because it will turn out to be garbage, which is quite difficult to correct and print.

Firstly, there is a lot of noise, and secondly, parts of objects, for example a fishing rod, can be either recessed or raised. Of course, the water looks beautiful, with a smooth depression, since it is made with a gradient, but we will touch on the gradients of this method when we make a pendant with a bas-relief of Nefertiti.

Let's get back to cutting down.

Naturally, if we make a cutting, the object will need to be mirrored.

In this picture, traces of the raster of the original picture are clearly visible. So it's a good idea to smooth out the edges with the Smooth brush. But what should we do when the picture is generally of extremely low quality, or we want to make a very clear, very smooth border? Option number two comes to the rescue.

Option 2

CorelDraw + SolidWorks

Given this drawing, you need to make a model for cutting with smooth walls.

All boundaries are curved; the 3-point curve tool is very suitable for drawing.

Import the image and draw the outline.

Remove the background image and export the outline to DXF or DWG

Open Solidworks or any other CAD application and import the resulting vector into it.

Extend the resulting sketch with the elongated boss/base tool

Select one of the part covers and press the shell button

In the shell settings, check the “Shell out” checkbox, select the wall thickness, and confirm the action.

Selecting the outer edge of the object

Apply the “Chamfer” tool to the selection so that the part cuts the dough/plasticine/mastic rather than crumples it.

We get the required part and save the result.

Comrades can say why use Corel if most normal codes have a similar feature? Yes, there is, but I haven’t found a convenient tool for drawing curves. To be fair, it’s worth showing how this is done, for example, in SolidWorks.

First, go to “Tools > Settings > Commands > Sketch” and drag out the “Sketch Image” button on the panel.

In sketch editing mode, click this button and select a drawing and confirm.

Of the tools for tracing a contour, only a spline is convenient here; in my opinion, it is less convenient to work with it than a curve through 3 points in Corel. In solid there is an arc function through 3 points, but it always has the same radius; not all shapes can be described.

That’s all for today, parts from China for a small milling cutter are on the way, so perhaps there won’t be a continuation soon, but there will definitely be one. There are plans to model badges, medallions, and rings. Write in the comments in what form is best to give step by step instructions, I thought about a video, but it’s almost impossible to record sound, it’s noisy at work, the children at home are also noisy during the day, at night I keep quiet so as not to disturb them. GIFs on smartphones and tablets are slow for some or do not show at all. There may be something unclear in static pictures.

P.S. Give a holivar in the comments about what can be done easier and faster.

Good afternoon, dear readers!

Probably this post will most likely be of interest to a young audience rather than to experienced and experienced ones.

Today I would like to talk about creating photographs on a 3D printer.

Let's turn to Wikipedia Lithophany - (Greek, from lithos - stone, and phanesthai - to make visible).

The art of preparing from porcelain, stone or clay such boards with in-depth designs that, when placed against the light, shadow images are obtained.

And so let's get started...

To create a plastic “masterpiece” we will need:

• Photo of a loved one *;
• Windows computer;
• Program "Image to STL" [Project] or JPG2STL (pm me);
• 3D printer;
• The desire to create and of course love!

Personally, my program crashed with errors and the printer failed to print.

Let's start:

• Download the program;
• Let's launch it;
• Specify the JPEG image file;
• Select image parameters;
• Save the file to STL.

• Width and height, resolution (quality);
• We specify the border (the outline around the picture), anti-aliasing, grayscale (the lower the value, the lower the quality of the output picture);
• Minimum and maximum thickness (the minimum affects the clearance). If you set it to a high value, the picture will be dark.

To put it simply, the program generates an STL file according to the following principle;

• The darker the dot, the greater the height of the dot (column);
• The lighter the dot, the lower the standing height (column).

Visualization of the printing process. Well, the printer printed for a long time and printed something incomprehensible, with “crackers” and “crackers”.

"Wow Effect" - guaranteed from your loved one!

The maximum effect is manifested on plastics of light shades:

• White;
• Grey;
• Yellow.

There are many options for using this art on the Internet, for example, you can make an “awesome” lamp.

Please note that the larger the output plate you make, the higher quality “Lithophany” you will get.

I had samples, I made a plate measuring 50 x 50 x 3.8 mm, printed with a 0.4 mm nozzle, layer height 0.2 mm, the quality of detail is of course lame (rough), but if you increase the size to 100x100 mm and install a nozzle 0.10-0.15 mm, then I assure you the result will not disappoint you.

I am sure that if you try and experiment for a long time, you can achieve very good results.

Result: your loved one is surprised and delighted, the effect is achieved.

The main task of the artist is not just to capture some very character traits, but make the maximum copy from the photograph.

WORKING FROM ALL ANGLES
THE FACE IS RECOGNIZABLE FROM ALL SIDES

PRODUCTION TIME

TERM FOR SIMULATING A PORTRAIT FROM A PHOTO IS 3-5 WORKING DAYS.

All portraits are created by hand by an artist-modeler. Modeling is the same sculptural work, but the tools in the hands of the modeler are more advanced. There is no "Do it automatically" button yet.

WHAT YOU WILL GET

1. MODEL FILE IN STL FORMAT

The file is completely ready for cutting on CNC milling machines

This format is universal for most CNC machines and there will be no problems with it. If you have any special wishes regarding the format of the portrait, please indicate this in terms of reference and we will definitely take them into account.

2. SEVERAL PORTRAIT PHOTOS FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES

From photographs from different angles you can see the finished model before production in the material.

VIDEO OF BUST MODELING

You can see the portrait modeling process in this video. The video has been sped up several times. In real time it takes several working days.

IT IS POSSIBLE TO SIMULATE ANY COMPOSITION

A portrait bas-relief does not have to be limited to just a standard frame. Any elements that are in one way or another connected with the image of a person can be depicted on the model.

*Photos of models can be used for the company's portfolio. The models themselves are not transferred to third parties.

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