Video Games
Artec 3D scanners for video games
Create incredibly realistic virtual worlds filled with true-to-life models of real objects, people, and environments using Artec 3D scanners for video games.

3D scanning for creating video game models
Studios continue to take great strides towards the development of video games with immersive, photorealistic graphics, and 3D scanning is at the forefront of this push. Artec 3D scanning unlocks opportunities to build games around real props and people in a way that saves developers from having to create object and character models from scratch. This significantly reduces costs and lead times.
Benefits
Depending on complexity, you can use 3D scanning to turn people or objects into high-poly video game models hours or even days quicker than with digital sculpting.
With Artec 3D scanning, you can create remarkably detailed 3D models of real items with a resolution of up to 0.1 mm, perfect for building out immersive virtual worlds.
Recreate props, people, and places as 3D models more faithfully than photogrammetry allows, at an accuracy of 50 microns.
Artec 3D scanning is so intuitive that developers can get to grips with the technology and start putting it to the test in less than two hours.
Capture an object’s true color with astonishing clarity, before turning scans into lifelike models with authentic patterns and textures.
With Artec 3D scanning, it’s possible to rapidly create 3D video game models of people and small objects in five minutes or less.
Video Game Applications
Prop digitization
Create true 1:1 digital versions of objects before adding visual effects like wear and shadows that help bring them to life. Rather than painstakingly building worlds from nothing, this allows studios to furnish them with faithfully reproduced props, including those of iconic franchises.
Create lifelike characters
Turn voice actors into characters with convincing, lifelike mannerisms for video games, as well as TV and film VFX. Using these digital doubles, studios can push boundaries by creating scenes that were previously too dangerous or elaborate for human actors to pull off.
Stunning 3D worlds
Replicate entire real-life locations in the digital world with incredible accuracy using Artec 3D scanning. These scans can either be utilized as reference points, or as a basis for authentic in-game 3D environments.
Push graphical limits
Capture the imagination of the world’s growing army of gamers with titles that feature incredibly realistic graphics, and take audience immersion to the next level.
Success Story
Developer drastically drives down the development time of futuristic, incredibly lifelike online shooter with Artec 3D scanning

“Each object, whether it’s a face or body, weapon or vehicle, features varying degrees of complexity and detail. We simply combined the scans of the Leo and Space Spider. This way, when our character artists get the ready 3D models, all the amazing detail is there.”
Kamil Bilczynski, The Farm 51
94% Faster
Digitizing each real-world object previously took The Farm 51 up to two days, but it can now do so in a few hours or less.
Video Games in the Media

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Javelin Technologies

Incredibly detailed online FPS made with 3D scanning
Industry Today
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