Archaeological artifacts: From Drawing To Digital 3D Model

Date: 10, 11, 12 February 2021

Location: online

Credits: 2 ECTS

During this workshop, students will learn how to digitize archaeological hand drawn illustrations (pottery/lithic artifacts), and how to process them in order to facilitate further research concerning accurate measurements, morphometric approaches, 3D reconstructions and 3D visualization tools.

The workshop includes:

Manuals on how to use Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop (drawing digitization) and Blender software (3d reconstruction, measurements).
Two 3-hours webinars where the manuals will be explained in detail.

Educational videos on archaeological illustration (pottery/lithics), the importance of digitization, post-processing and visualization.

Program:

(9th of February: the workshop material will be shared with the participants and Whatsapp groups are created)

10^th of February

This is the first day of the course and the students will work alone from their own space and at their own pace with the material. It is advised to start with the folder created by Maria Hadjigavriel (videos and pottery drawing handout) and continue with Igor Djacovic’s prepared archive [videos (lithics drawing, 3D to 2D applications) and manual on how to use 3D models of lithics to create high quality 2D images]. After having finished these two parts of the course, they should move to the third folder which is the main part and provided by Vasiliki Lagari. It is bipartite and concerned with the use of Adobe Illustrator and Blender software. The students start with the Adobe Illustrator related subfolder and continue with the Blender one. The next two days of the course (11^th and 12^th of February) are devoted to this software with respective webinars, therefore it is highly recommended for the participants to watch the videos and familiarize themselves with how to operate the software. The manuals that accompany the videos are to be followed during the webinars.

11^th of February

09:30 – 12:30 Adobe Illustrator webinar during which the students will work with the manual and ask any questions that may arise. If they do not finish within these three hours, they can continue after the webinar ends and address their questions via Whatsapp to the instructor (Vasiliki Lagari).

12^th February

09:30 – 12:30 Blender software webinar during which the students will work with the manual and ask any questions that may arise. If they do not finish within these three hours, they can continue after the webinar ends and address their questions via Whatsapp to the instructor (Vasiliki Lagari).

Assessment: Attending the entirety of the workshop and submitting the results (drawings and 3D models).

Registration: Closed.