Robot dogs, complete with the face of Elon Musk, have been roaming the streets of San Francisco. They are now on display in a digital arts center in Palo Alto.
Only way to make a good 3d model is 3d scan. You can do that with a regular camera or a fancy scanner.
The real work (compiling images) is done on the software.
Still requires person to agree. It takes at minimum 100 photos to get a good model.
But even with a 3d model, you’d have to make a 3d print.
Resin would be most accurate. Not filament.
Printed to scale.
Then turn that into a mould. Because you can’t use resin moulds.
Then make a support shell mould. Which you would need to make even if mould was made directly from face but it’s way easier to do it from a real face.
Plus you get fine lines and pores. If you have a really high resolution silicone.
Then also someone skilled, painted it and hand added hair. Each strand is manually added. You can buy hair patches but it looks directly added. Like how it’s done on high end doll heads. (But most cheap toy dolls use machines that add clumps at a time. Not single hair. or sew the hair on.)
These must have been incredibly expensive to produce.
Well, expensive for you or me.
Maybe 5k for a head. Assuming a few heads were made. That’s what I would guess knowing the labor and materials involved.
If only one head. Maybe more. Since mould making process is expensive.
$6k or 7k maybe?
Also more because of the NDA.
Assuming that musk or zuck are the ones commissioning these.
Yeah the 3d ai is no where at that level.
Only way to make a good 3d model is 3d scan. You can do that with a regular camera or a fancy scanner. The real work (compiling images) is done on the software.
Still requires person to agree. It takes at minimum 100 photos to get a good model.
But even with a 3d model, you’d have to make a 3d print. Resin would be most accurate. Not filament.
Printed to scale.
Then turn that into a mould. Because you can’t use resin moulds.
Then make a support shell mould. Which you would need to make even if mould was made directly from face but it’s way easier to do it from a real face. Plus you get fine lines and pores. If you have a really high resolution silicone.
Then also someone skilled, painted it and hand added hair. Each strand is manually added. You can buy hair patches but it looks directly added. Like how it’s done on high end doll heads. (But most cheap toy dolls use machines that add clumps at a time. Not single hair. or sew the hair on.)
These must have been incredibly expensive to produce.
Well, expensive for you or me.
Maybe 5k for a head. Assuming a few heads were made. That’s what I would guess knowing the labor and materials involved.
If only one head. Maybe more. Since mould making process is expensive.
$6k or 7k maybe? Also more because of the NDA.
Assuming that musk or zuck are the ones commissioning these.
Nobody ever made sculptures before that.
Not a single 3D printer or scanner was used for Lord of the rings.
Yeah traditionally, real faces are used to make moulds.
Then for fx stuff, the sculptist uses a cast model of the face to make the fx latex pieces of masks or whatever to fit on that person’s face.
High quality ones , anyway. When it’s tailored for the persons face it fits better and looks better.
There are a ton of videos on how this is all done. I always liked watching videos on movie magic. So that’s how I know the basics.
But I can say that almost always, when a likeness of someone is needed, they make the prop from making moulds from the actual person’s face.
That’s the best source.
3d printing itself , introduced artifacts and errors. So it’s not really the best medium.
Even madame tussauds waxworks starts with moulds made from the people’s faces (people who are alive anyway).
Fun fact. Michael Myers from Halloween movies wears a William Shatner latex mask. Made from a cast of his face.
Tussauds 3D scans celebrity faces.
No they don’t.
https://www.madametussauds.com/wien/en/what-s-inside/behind-the-scenes/
Have you seen Beeple’s other work?
No. Link ?