Project Flavia - Facial reconstruction

A few years back I was asked to reconstruct a face based on a skull found in York. using Photomodeller and a lot of research and hard work - this was the result. First the photographs of the skull were modelled in 3D with hundreds of points, then the thickness of soft tissue added - finally a 'skin' was stretched over the model and hair added. It was truely exciting to meet her face to face after nearly 2000 years.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• skull
• face
• reconstruction
• archaeology
• 3D
• virtual
• roman
• woman

[BAJR]

this was a bit of a rush job.. so there was some slight artistic licence. as the time limit on the reconstruction was tight.

the chin is perhaps too pronounced.. for the mandible structure.

well spotted..!

[Celt1114]

Good video as I am very interested in historical facial reconstruction.

I wish the video was longer and went into more detail about the process.

A face to face view of the reconstruction would have also been nice.

[Tchitchuritcha]

Very good...

[gem924]

mummiea are so amazing. it's a wonder some people are afraid of them..

they give us a window into the past. :-)

[vidensodoacer]

Amazing...they do look like the people in the mosaics.