This page borrows significantly from the Computational Portraiture Workshop curriculum developed by James George & Alexander Porter of Specular.cc.
- Seene (Mobile, Free)
- Seene hacking with Proecessing, Library
- [Kinect Fusion] This is currently the most high-fidelity solution for scanning with a Kinect or similar sensor.
- Scenect (Free)
- Skanect (Mac/PC, Limited Free version)
- ReconstructMe (PC, Free non-commercial)
- Faceshift, for Facial Motion Capture (Mac/PC, Paid (with trial))
- 123D Catch (Web App/PC desktop/Mobile, Free)
- Photoscan (Mac/PC, Paid (with trial))
- VisualSFM (Mac/PC/Linux, FreeNC) - Open-source photogrammetry toolkit.
- Python Photogrammetry Toolbox (PC/Linux)
- DepthKit (Mac/PC, Free) Kinect + HD Video
- Brekel Kinect (Mac/PC, various licenses) - for Mocap & Scanning
- CloudCompare (Mac/PC/Linux, Free) - Pointcloud & Mesh Viewer/processor. This tool is great for loading, aligning & reducing large pointclouds.
- MeshMixer (Mac/PC/Linux, Free)
- Sculptris (Mac/PC, Free)
- Z-Brush (Mac/PC, Paid)
- 3D-Coat (Mac/PC, Paid)
- Topogun (Mac/PC, Paid)
- Meshlab 3D multi-tool. You can use meshlab's screen multiplier function to create high res screenshots of your models. (Mac/PC, Free) Tutorials
- Photoshop (Mac/PC, Paid)
- Blender (Mac/PC, Free)
- Cinema 4D (Mac/PC,Paid)
- Maya (Mac/PC, Paid)
- 3DS Max (Mac/PC, Paid)
- Modo (Mac/PC, Paid)
- After Effects Mac/PC, Paid)
- R3DS Wrap Mac/PC Retopology tool Very powerful tool for bypassing normal retopology workflows by aligning a simple 3D model (like one from MakeHuman) to a 3D scan.
- FaceGen Windows Head Modeller Can take as few as two photos as input
- MakeHuman Mac/PC/Linux Open Source Tool for creating rigged 3D characters.
- Lens Bundled with Photoscan This is a good tool for doing lens calibration in the case that you need metadata for photoscan.
- Fiji/ImageJ PC/Mac/Linux Open Source Powerful Image Viewer/Processor - This is a great tool that can create 3D from some unusual techniques - depth from defocus, image stacks etc. It's great for 'found data' projects using biomedical or other uncommon formats. Be sure to look around for plugins.
- Helicon Focus Mac/PC Depth From Defocus Is designed for focus stacking, but can output depth maps.
- Unity 3D Mac/PC Free Game engine
- Unreal Engine 4 Mac/PC Free Game engine
- Importing OBJ sequence with texture from the DepthKit into Maya
- A series of Tutorials for the DepthKit (may be slightly out of date)
- Importing OBJ sequence into After Effects
- Creating forensic facial reconstruction using free tools.
- Getting data from the Visible Human Project
- Tutorial on Structured Light scanning, by @kcimc