Messing with AI - The Next Level in Workflow?

So I've been playing with Meshy.ai to generate some cosplay pieces, and the results were VERY impressive.

So impressive, I decided to generate a bunch of other stuff - swords, shields, potion bottles, pendants, helmets, even larger scale armor pieces. Then I decided to see what it would do with an Animus creature - I chose Frostreaver for this experiment, because I fully expected the AI to crash and burn trying to make something out of it.

Color me surprised! It's not perfect, and manages to be less printable than my earliest modelling attempts when my models weren't manifold, but this would 100% be what I would make Frostreaver look like in an Animus video game.

I attempted several other generations using some sub-standard images to test the limits of the AI - It handled most tests admirably, arguably doing a better job than I would given the same images. For example, I fed it a single low resolution clay figure image of the main character from Secret of Mana.

That's straight impressive given the original image is low resolution and is definitely not in what I would call an "ideal angle." It's not 100% on model, but very cool regardless. I always liked the little clay figures of the characters in the instruction manual, so it's neat to see one given life, so to speak.

All that being said, I will definitely be utilizing more AI in my future workflow. The rings printed straight from the generated model, all I had to do was scale them to size.

If you wanna check it out, navigate over to Meshy.ai and give it a whirl. They give you 100 credits free, and you can generate from text or images. I'm not an affiliate, so I won't give any special links, but you can find me on there as ClintsPrints. If you go Pro, you can download stuff I share as well as a bunch of stuff others generate.

I'll be cross-posting some stuff once I have verified it is printable. So far, I have printed some potion bottles, a buckler shield, several rings, a pendant, a sword, some cosplay antlers and a dagger and they came out great with fairly minimal work on my part.

Have fun folks, the future is now!