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AI 3D

Explore text-to-3D and image-to-3D workflows, then prepare assets for real editing, rendering, or game pipelines.

For 3D artists, developers, and makers

6 original lessons on ToolDix, roughly 100 minutes end to end

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Course outline

  1. 1Choose the Right AI 3D WorkflowMatch text-to-3D, image-to-3D, scanning, or manual modelling to the asset you need, let the destination set the acceptance criteria, and understand which properties generated geometry reliably does not have.Beginner16 min
  2. 2Review Generated 3D Assets Before HandoffRun three inspection passes that each catch a different class of defect, check the asset against a pipeline-specific checklist rather than a generic one, and record provenance while it is still reconstructable.Intermediate16 min
  3. 3Prepare Inputs for 3D GenerationCapture and prepare the images that decide the quality of a generated mesh, because no reconstruction recovers surfaces the input never showed.Intermediate16 min
  4. 4Retopologize and Unwrap a Generated MeshTurn a dense, unusable generated mesh into geometry a pipeline can animate, texture, and ship, and decide when the cleanup is not worth doing at all.Advanced18 min
  5. 5Fix Textures and Materials on a Generated AssetSeparate the colour that belongs to a surface from the lighting baked into it, build the PBR channels a renderer actually needs, and bake detail from the dense mesh onto the clean one.Advanced17 min
  6. 6Optimize a Generated Asset for Real-Time UseGet a generated model inside a real budget by fixing draw calls and texture memory before polygon count, building LODs, and exporting to a format the target actually reads.Advanced17 min

Optional, after the lessons

Further reading from primary sources

Published by other organizations and kept here for reference. The lessons above are the ToolDix course; these are where to go once you want the vendor's own documentation.

5 resources

Meshy documentation by Meshy
Hands-on labBeginner

Meshy documentation

Meshy

Documentation for generating and preparing 3D assets from text or image inputs.

Time
One asset workflow
text to 3Dmeshhandoff
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Tripo API Documentation by Tripo
Hands-on labIntermediate

Tripo API Documentation

Tripo

A developer reference for text-to-3D and image-to-3D asset generation workflows.

Time
Developer documentation
image-to-3DAPIasset pipeline
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Blender Open Data by Blender Foundation
Classic readingBeginner

Blender Open Data

Blender Foundation

An open benchmark project that helps creators understand the hardware and rendering context around 3D production.

Time
Reference and benchmarks
renderingbenchmarkproduction
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Stable Fast 3D by Stability AI
Hands-on labAdvanced

Stable Fast 3D

Stability AI

An image-to-3D research repository for generating textured 3D assets, with setup, inference, model, and output guidance.

Time
Repository and model demo
image-to-3Dmeshesopen models
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GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes by NVIDIA Research
Classic readingAdvanced

GET3D: A Generative Model of High Quality 3D Textured Shapes

NVIDIA Research

A research project on generating textured 3D meshes with explicit surface representations, accompanied by paper, visual results, and code references.

Time
Paper, project page, and code
3D generationmeshesresearch paper
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