German town's miniature sculpture

Hi there,
here are a few screenshots and a video rendering of one of my more recent photogrammetry projects.

Freudenberg, a famous German town, it’s miniature town sculpture in 3D:





It was quite some work, but the stunning result was worth the effort.

I took roughly 1850 high resolution photographs to catch all those tiny little details.
The high-quality model had over 400.000.000 polygons. I simplified and flattened it down to 12.000.000 polys with the details reprojected into the normal map.

The final model has three 16K texturesets and a custom roughness map to get back the original shininess.

The model was lit and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.3.

Here is the final video rendering, featuring some dynamic lighting and pseudo-wireframe overlays:

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P284_nccZjs
My website: https://bypande.com/