Jul 22, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Dany Bittel is a Swiss digital artist and developer who pivoted his focus towards 3D scanning and Gaussian Splatting. In this episode, he walks through his remarkable workflow for creating…
Dany BittelGuest
Gabriele RomagnoliHostSo then when it comes to, let's say, capturing, right, of course, there are a bunch of extra complications, of course, in capturing these macro objects.
How does the setup of capturing this tiny object works? Do you move the object? Do you move the camera? How does the two parts of the system interact with each other?
That means you need to have the camera on a focus rail and shoot multiple different depth.
That way you have the whole insect in focus at some point, and you can combine all the images into one image that is fully in focus.
And it is for one specific angle we are talking about, right? So in one specific position, you have it moving at different depth.
And then at that point, you can reconstruct, but just one image from one angle.
And now you need to repeat the process using a different angle around the inset, correct? Yes, and the thing
That's why I have to need the whole rig so I can move the camera up and down on this boom arm and the subject rotates.
because everything has such shallow depth of field, I need to use a chroma key in the background so I can key it before doing
So you move the camera both, let's say, in the X, Y, Z around it, as well as taking from each angle different depth and the insects in the middle is the thing that moves.
And then you say that you do this with a chroma key so that you can kind of like key it out.
How do you go then from, okay, maybe before going to the, let's say, cleaning and the reconstruction process, how long does it take you? Let's say that everything goes kind of like, okay, there are no major headaches from the moment that you start, you have to replace.
So then when it comes to, let's say, capturing, right, of course, there are a bunch of extra complications, of course, in capturing these macro objects.
How does the setup of capturing this tiny object works? Do you move the object? Do you move the camera? How does the two parts of the system interact with each other?
That means you need to have the camera on a focus rail and shoot multiple different depth.
That way you have the whole insect in focus at some point, and you can combine all the images into one image that is fully in focus.
And it is for one specific angle we are talking about, right? So in one specific position, you have it moving at different depth.
And then at that point, you can reconstruct, but just one image from one angle.
And now you need to repeat the process using a different angle around the inset, correct? Yes, and the thing
That's why I have to need the whole rig so I can move the camera up and down on this boom arm and the subject rotates.
because everything has such shallow depth of field, I need to use a chroma key in the background so I can key it before doing
So you move the camera both, let's say, in the X, Y, Z around it, as well as taking from each angle different depth and the insects in the middle is the thing that moves.
And then you say that you do this with a chroma key so that you can kind of like key it out.
How do you go then from, okay, maybe before going to the, let's say, cleaning and the reconstruction process, how long does it take you? Let's say that everything goes kind of like, okay, there are no major headaches from the moment that you start, you have to replace.
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