How to make 3D Models for Museums & Archaeology

Hello and welcome to this workshop on how to make 3D models of British Museum and Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) objects. By the end of this workshop, you should be equipped to make a scan like this one of the Terme Boxer’s head. We will be covering the basics of a technique called photogrammetry.

This workshop is part of the Festival of Archaeology:

Tutorial pages

• What is photogrammetry?
• What equipment do I need?
• Choosing a subject
• Your photographic strategy
• Taking your photos
• First steps in Agisoft's metashape
• Aligning your photos
• Building a dense cloud
• Cleaning a dense cloud
• Building a mesh
• Adding texture
• Uploading to Sketchfab
• Further reading
• Some Fun Stuff
• 3D Models from the Training Session

This guide is released as CC0. Some contents will have retained rights (eg Thomas Flynn’s scans and logos).