3DPEOPLE

3DPEOPLE is a German digital-human asset studio specializing in photogrammetry-based 3D people for architectural visualization, visual effects, games, animation, advertising, immersive media, and computer-vision research. The company develops production-ready human assets that combine realistic scanned appearance with practical formats for visualization and animation workflows.

Its catalog is organized around three character types:

• Posed 3D Characters for static foreground and background scenes
• Rigged 3D Characters with body and facial skeletal controls for custom posing and animation
• Animated 3D Characters built from motion-captured performances and clothing-simulation workflows

Scanning and asset production

The studio uses an in-house photogrammetry capture rig with synchronized high-definition cameras to record people from multiple angles simultaneously. Raw captures are processed into dense point clouds and polygonal meshes, then retopologized, cleaned, UV unwrapped, and textured by digital artists. This workflow is designed to turn detailed scans into lighter, usable assets for professional CGI pipelines.

3DPEOPLE’s materials work includes physically based rendering shading, subsurface scattering, roughness maps, and specialized eye shaders. Its 3DPEOPLE 2.0 collection introduced optimized 50,000-polygon meshes and enhanced material treatment for more lifelike digital characters.

Data for AI and computer vision

Beyond its commercial character catalog, 3DPEOPLE operates 3DPeopleData, a dataset line for AI and computer-vision applications. The datasets combine photorealistic human imagery with ground-truth meshes, skeletons, depth information, skeletal keypoints, and segmentation masks for machine-learning and human-pose-estimation research.

The company serves as an asset provider rather than a film or game producer. Its scanned and animated characters have been used by visualization studios including Infinite 3D, Focus 360, Binyan Studios, and Bless 3D Studio, supporting architectural CGI, commercial property marketing, and other digital-scene production.