Scanned models to low res models


#1

Back in the old days when physical models or maquettes or scanned to create cg models, how were lower res models created from the original scans? Here’s a video that shows what I mean? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brXbomOKEJg


#2

They remodeled them by hand or used the magical never seen software outside of big studios CySlice from Headus.

https://www.headus.com.au/3d-tools/cyslice


#3

Why they were not distributed to regular users? Was it too pricey or policy to keep the leading edge?