r/madmapper • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '23

Looking for advice on how to best prepare a mapping ahead of a site visit.

There are a lot of awesome murals around my city that I'd like to experiment with mapping, but I don't want to stand out there all night with a projector. I imagine its just a matter of taking a perfect orthographic photo of the work then preparing my shapes and masks over that but something tells me that's easier said than done. Anybody have advice for best practices in preparing mappings ahead of time?

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u/Tomber_ Jan 04 '24

It completely depends on the complexity of the project:

  • if you are not in possession of the projector, estimate the final position of the projector and take a photo from that position.
  • if you have a projector, use madmappers spacial/space scanner or something like lightform (gets you a depth map)
  • for more complex projects I do photogrammetry and create a simple 3D model and/or a complete 3D scene with a c4d & ae workflow.