Cool Collector # Art Files

I am absolutely amazed by the 3d paper portraits by Bert Simons! Imagine when this technology is available for regular consumers, you can hang your whole family like this in your home, pretty funny idea. I was also very proud to see Bert Simons lives just a few blocks away from me. Great things just happen around the corner!

"The first step in his process of making a paper portrait is digitizing a model. Bert starts his work by putting a lot of points on his model’s face to have some reference when modeling. He then takes all the data into his computer where he reconstructs the face with Blender, the open source 3D program. After 3D modeling Bert goes back to 2D by flattening the texture and then printing everything out. Finally, he glues this incredibly complex 3D puzzle and turns it into hyper-realistic portraits. "