same animation rendered out with mental ray.

creature smashes the corrugated iron wall in anger!

The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot cloth in which many believe Jesus Christ was buried. I watched an interesting doco on SBS tonight about the shroud and how scientists tried to disproof this relic. This inspired me to do a little investigation myself, as the photo that was taken during the examination reminded me of a depth map, used in 3D CGI to generate displacements on an object.

shroud of turin depthmap 3d

The largest image was generated from using the computer, it is not a modified image of the original As you can see the 3D generated Z-depth displacement map matches closely with the original to the bottom right.

Using photoshop to clean up and enhance the original photo I was able to created several versions of a first pass depth map (top right), which I than used in Mudbox as a stencil to sculpt the results ( below ).

What I found interesting was not who this person was, but how the image was transferred onto the cloth in the first place 2000+ years ago?? or as cabron dating suggest 1200 – 1300

UV’s mess with my zen finnaly got around to it though. phew. All done through Maya and Bonus Tools.

Same rig with a denser mesh and details added back in from original mudbox sculpt.

Maya: Blend Shapes for specific parts of whole mesh
a great radial blend shape tool for maya
Face Rigging For Animation in Autodesk Maya bind joint to nurbs skull
Maya: A Soft Eyes setup
Maya: A Blend Shape Workflow (Part 3)