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Meshy AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
3D generative AI toolbox for creating models from text or images, with AI texturing, auto-rigging and an API.
27M visits/mo8.2K saves
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PixAI.Art
✓ verifiedFreemium
A community-driven AI anime art generator with a large library of shareable models and LoRAs for stylized image creation.
9.7M visits/mo49K saves
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3DPEA
✓ verifiedFree
Free online tool that converts PNG images into 3D-printable STL models, part of 3DPEA's wider file-conversion suite.
174K visits/mo
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Core features
- ✦Text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation
- ✦AI PBR texturing for existing models
- ✦Auto-rigging and character animation
- ✦AI multi-view image generation
- ✦API and plugins for Blender, Unity and Bambu Studio
- ✦Export in common 3D formats
- ✦Text-to-image anime art generation
- ✦Access to 1M+ community-created models and LoRAs
- ✦Trending, daily-ranking, and following feeds of shared art
- ✦Animated image generation support
- ✦Toolbox of additional creative editing features
- ✦Mobile app availability
- ✦PNG-to-STL conversion via pixel height mapping
- ✦Standard and extrude (with color) conversion modes
- ✦Controls for size, resolution, border and thickness
- ✦Color merging, smoothing and transparency handling
- ✦Supports many other image and 3D format conversions
- ✦No file storage; runs in the browser on any OS
Use cases
- →Generate game-ready 3D assets fast
- →Create models for 3D printing
- →Texture and animate existing 3D models
- →Integrate 3D generation into a product pipeline
- →Generating original anime-style character art from a prompt
- →Browsing and remixing community-made art styles and models
- →Following favorite creators and trending art on the platform
- →Creating animated anime-style content
- →Turning logos or images into 3D-printable models
- →Creating custom reliefs and lithophane-style prints
- →Prototyping simple 3D objects from 2D artwork
- →Converting between assorted image and 3D formats
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