Making models using video as the reference. ======================================================================== VideoTrace: Rapid interactive scene modelling from video VideoTrace is a system for interactively generating realistic 3D models of objects from videomodels that might be inserted into a video game, a…
kinda looks like it essentially just has the camera match the motion in the video, which is pretty impressive in itself, then adds modeling tools on top of that
It'd actually be quite useful for a post/compositing artist. Rather than doing shitloads of footage tracking, and creating an identical model, you do the same through a few steps with this program.
oh that's cool. just that, if they [models] were to be used in film or games for placing like he showed, the texture would have to be edited [shadows and highlights etc]. but yeah. that's real sweet. i'm sure its time consuming like anything though lol.