The team took a short break from holiday gifting magic this week to take a field trip to Crest Hardware in Williamsburg — and visit their resident Garden Keeper, Franklin the potbellied pig, and his dad Joe. The mission of the trip was to 3D scan Franklin while documenting the experience on Facebook Live.
Franklin’s a beloved local celebrity. He’s often mobbed by fans, and his 2.4k Instagram followers are increasing their ranks every day.
The team had an amazing time hanging out with Franklin and his dad while we scanned both of them at once. Keeping Franklin still was surprisingly easy while he had some pig food to eat, but he also liked to wag his little tail and lift his head to check out what we were doing.
Despite being famous, Franklin was great to work with. Some of the challenges we encountered were the typical obstacles involved in working outside (meh lighting and spotty wi-fi) and trying to capture a scan of the leash between Joe and Franklin. We captured a few scans of the two of them standing near each other, but it was tricky capturing the two of them both in still poses. All things considered, we managed to snag some decent scans and are hoping to mesh a few scans together.
Sad you missed it? No worries! You can still catch the adventure (and questionable pig puns) here! What else would you like to see us attempt to 3D scan? Let us know in the comments!
Cats, and the talking dog who wants a cat, and baby goats, maybe of the ones who get in trees in Morocco, and foxes on trampolines, and the drunk animals under the marula trees, in Africa. Are these enough for a while?
Hello everyone,
What an adventure !!! For my part, wiser, I scanned one of my sculptures simply with my iphone, it’s much easier! The sculpture is wiser than “Pig” of course!
Here is the result: http://shpws.me/LYxv for lovers of art, it is named: Nu Bleu in tribute to Matisse and his pictorial work of the same name!
I would like to see Mars!
Right??!!
What are you using to scan? We have a maker bot desktop digitizer, but it’s scanning capabilities are quite limited. Even with the ability to control the lighting in the lab, I can never get usable scans off of it
We’re using the structure sensor from occipital
http://structure.io/
a truck. a full size tractor truck, in high detail. and then tell us what you’re using to make the scans……
You should have used the Twindom Twistant or our Artec Eva 3D scanner. We have scanned families, pets, people for wedding toppers. I would have to say Shapeways is the way to go for the prints. Just got our first one and was extremely happy with the results! Really cool to see your scan!
Ike iconic
The most iconic of airliners the Boeing 747!