Feet of the MIA Doryphoros by Polykleitos

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I decided to recreate the feet of the Doryphoros by Polykleitos from an ancient Roman-era copy displayed at the MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Art). I feel that the feet of the statue are very expressive and thought it would be a fun challenge. You can read more about this handsome fellow at: http://goo.gl/uD2AmY How I Designed This Unfortunately, all my original RAW photos were lost when my hard drive with my photo archive crashed. I idiotically never backed it up and lost over 15 years of precious photos. Most of my photos had been published to flickr luckily, so I still have low-resolution copies. Among them were my hundreds of photos of the Doryphoros. I have made all of the available for free download and use here: https://goo.gl/RFhTg1 Due to the photos being JPG, they became rather challenging for me to work with. I was still able to create a good model at medium settings in Agisoft's Photoscan, but the resulting model was very noisy (the mesh was very choppy instead of being smooth). I exported the model into Meshmixer and began smoothing it, but I got overly aggressive and lost much of the fine detail. I still liked the model enough that I thought I'd share it. I scaled it up to roughly match the proportions and size of the original so if you can print it out at the same size as uploaded here, you'll have a life-size copy of the Doryphoros feet (if anyone does do it, get back to me with what size shoe he'd wear).