New style Portrait.
There's many ways to get a portrait of yourself. An oil painting, a photograph, a sculpture. You could take a nice portrait photograph and give it an oil painting filter, and you can print that on canvas like an expert painter painted it.
Why not get the whole front of your face scanned in 3D and printed out in plastic, in color, full size, 1:1. You could really go further and make a full size bust, like it was sculpted in Roman times, by Michelangelo.
I think the front half of your head, as an art piece, on a wall is more than enough. It'd be a keepsake of a lifetime, a modern-tech version of an oil painting portrait.
I've been in the movie industry, working on props and costumes, and worked with a full size life cast of Bill Nighy. They could get perfect 3D scans of actors and print them but I think the cost is higher than just making a mold and casting it. For some movies they absolutely do make a 3D model of the actor and use it for special effects, the de-aging. Or morphing into the Hulk, for example.
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Print it in plastic (resin).
I love the possibilities of 3D printing. I've been making 3D models for over 10 years and if I had a 3D printer, I'd be printing small objects up to 3 or 4 inches. Because it's relatively expensive to do, we're kind of limited to small objects. Another obvious fact about 3D printing, is that you wouldn't want to print something that is already available. So we have to print something rare, or one of a kind, or otherwise difficult to make by hand.
10 years ago, I watched YouTube videos of people 3D scanning objects to be made into a 3D model. Photogrammetry is where you put multiple photographs into a software program and it'll turn that into a 3D model. They were doing it for entire historic buildings. Other people were scanning people's faces, or using photos to make models. The latest gimmick I've seen with this is a small family poses in a room, they get 3D scanned, and the company prints a small 5-in statuette, in color, as a keepsake or a gift.
Here's a guy doing a complete 3D scan:
"3D Face Scan, simple Camera, Photogrammetry"
VIEW on YOUTUBE
If you can scan and get a perfect likeness to your real face, that's got to be one of the most unique things that you could print. you could do it with a special scanner setup, but also with multiple photos processed in a 3D modeling program. Heard of deep fake?What it does is scan and save multiple photos from a movie with one actor in mind. I've seen Tom Cruise deep faked 100% convincing. This idea leads to a modern museum where all the actors faces have been scanned from their movies.
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