A 17-year-old boy has quit school to dedicate all his time to promoting sculptures, particularly Vietnamese mascots, by creating 3D scans of hundreds of them. Nguyen Tri Quang, who resides in Hanoi, has successfully put hundreds of 3D-scanned objects on his website, Vr3d.vn . Born to a family of craftspeople, since he was a little boy Quang has followed his father to relics across the country and gathered myriad samples. A 3D scan of a wooden "nghe" (stylized dog) statue, which also serves as a light base The online library of Vietnamese mascots During Vietnam's first exhibit on purely traditional Vietnamese mascots, which took place in Hanoi in mid-November last year, Quang instantly thought of how to promote the purely Vietnamese mascots based on his father’s, and his own, collections over almost 10 years. “In my opinion, such exhibits are spatially and chronologically limited, as many can’t make it...