Large area 3D scanning

Mediastation have teamed up with professional surveyors at www.msasurvey.com to offer a unique visualisation service. MSA use state-of-the-art 3D scanners to scan and survey any environment - from a single room to a whole complex. While primarily this technology is used for fast and accurate environment surveying, the data produced can be used in virtual worlds as well - giving us endless possibilities to blend the real with the virtual.

The scanning equipment produces something called “point cloud data”, the video below shows the detail that is captured.

This technique means we can produce extremely accurate assets for visualisation and animation. Once captured our 3D artists remove any unrequired data and convert it to a 3D model to use in the virtual environment.  The scan also cpatures colour so texturing is much easier and realistic.

This process can be used for any number of visualistation services, it is specifically usefull for visualising how a new building is going to look it the current environment rather than single flat artist impressions. We can put the camera in any position and output videos or stills for marketing and communications.