News, workflows, and honest takes on AI for 3D artists, from materials and scans to whole scenes.
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Sparseal's retopology, UV and baking app is now on desktop. You sketch guides and the AI fills in the quads, and the models run on your machine, trained only on synthetic data.
3D
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A few minutes of walking around with a phone can become a 3D scene at real-world scale, with the gaps filled in. Before you scan a client's space, check the plan you're on and what the terms let SpAItial do with your upload.
3D
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KeenTools, the team behind FaceBuilder, now has a browser Studio and an API that reconstruct a textured head with consistent topology and ARKit blendshapes from your photos. It's pay-per-head, and the fine print is worth reading before you build a pipeline on it.
3D
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Spline now hosts its MCP server, so you can connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools by signing in with your Spline account, no desktop app or API key required. The same update brings PBR materials and timeline animations to native iOS and Android exports.
3D, Web
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Cycles' denoiser is on by default, so most people never touch its settings. Pulling together Blender's manual and several long Blender Artists threads, here's how to set it up for stills and animation, and where the advice disagrees.
3D
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Cinema 4D now ships with its own MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can rename, reorganize, and check your scenes for you. Pulling together Maxon's docs and several early write-ups, here's how to set it up and where it actually earns its keep.
3D, Motion & Video
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Sampler's AI-powered Image to Material can pull a full PBR material out of a single phone photo. Getting one that tiles cleanly and holds up on a render takes a few more steps. Here's the path, pulled together from Adobe's docs and several independent guides.
3D
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Meshy, Tripo, and similar tools get you a convincing model in minutes, with geometry that's rarely ready for anything. Pulling together Blender's manual and several independent guides, here's a cleanup path and where the advice disagrees.
3D
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A signed add-on now lets Blender artists generate meshes, rigs, and scene elements from inside the 3D viewport, and get back editable data instead of a locked render. Early coverage is cautiously optimistic, not sold.
3D, Motion & Video
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Spline's V2 relaunch adds an in-editor AI agent that can build and edit full 3D scenes from a prompt, plus an MCP server so tools like Claude Code and Cursor can drive the editor directly.
3D, Web