SkySplat Tutorial: From drone video to photo-realistic 3D scene

This tutorial covers the full process of turning low-cost drone footage into a photo-realistic 3D scene in Blender using SkySplat, a free and open-source addon. I’ll walk through frame extraction, COLMAP Structure-from-Motion, scene alignment in Blender, and 3D Gaussian Splat generation, done entirely within the Blender viewport.

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  • I am an engineer and tinkerer originally from Colorado, USA, but currently living and working in the UK. My one professional goal is to make cool things that work. Recently, my vocational and avocational interests have wandered to ways to make complex ideas more intuitive and engaging for students young and old alike.

    I like to tinker in physics simulations, 3D modeling, 3D printing, educatio…

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