AI 3D Modeling is here! But is it any good? 

I’m sure you know a few artists that could use the work.

@theoneandonlysmallville4294 100%, and I bet the artists would be happy to pay him some commission for the referrals. This video hurt to watch. You can't praise the REAL artists in one breath and then shill this in the next. Modellers are a part of the community, too. We all know that ai is going to disrupt a lot of creative fields, let's not accelerate it by shilling it and offering people discount codes. Send them the way of real modellers instead

Good Grief, UJ. This is just ANOTHER fake A.I. service using sweatjobs! Most likely, this is Kaedim again but using a different name, because they got caught. Only now they're charging $25-40 instead of the $6. But I guarantee they are picking the money instead of properly paying the 3D artists their worth. Jessy, the red flags are all over the site. Here are just a few: 1) No free trail option. Even if it was just 1-5 tries, a REAL 2D to 3D compa y would let you see the model, BEFORE paying for it. 2) The fact they are forcing payment BEFORE their so-called "a.i. generated software" does it's work, is because a real person is speed modeling it. The imperfections are due to their having to speed through it, which masks the idead that it's all a.i. generated. 3) In your skull example, there are details added to the 3D model that a a.i. program would not make. Like how far to shape certain parts of the structure. The addition of unseen elements in the original image is another giveaway. 4) Run a test from the same account, using similar images. Be sure to order both renders close enough to one another that they down overlap, but the same artist will see them and be tasked to create them both. In this case that would be the skull. I bet the 3D mesh of both skulls will be identical or impossibly close. 5) The fact the so-called a.i. program takes 25 minutes or more, is easily the biggest giveaway that that a real person is being forced to model it. A a.i. program would take MAYBE 10 minutes max, for a model like the melting skull. Why? Because it's modeling based on both a image and a prompt. A.I. image to image tech has gotten very fast and only takes a few seconds to generate high detailed and high quality images. There are ZERO REASONS for it to take more than 5 minutes for a simple model like the skull to take 25 minutes to generate. 6) The fact this company is not tied to any image to image, nor text to image, a.i. generators, is more evidence they are lying and using digital sweatshop artists. 7) Solid evidence this is a scam: The domain was first registered in late July 2023. A tech site like this would have had it's domain registered LONG BEFORE the site went live. NOT THE SAME MONTH! Most of the owner info is redacted, but it's info claims to be stationed in Arazona, USA. HOWEVER; it also states to be owned by 1api.net. That domain was bought in 2017 and it's origins is fully redacted, EXCEPT for it's abuse report phone number. And that number is BASED IN GERMANY and includes a extention number!! ( 49+68949396x850) For those that don't know, Kaedim is a website that made this exact same claim. Only they were charging a $6 trial and a $120-ish monthly fee. Fellow a.i. users, and 3D modelers figured out the scam. They did some digging and got proof Kaedim was lying and abusing their employees by paying them literally pennies on the dollar for each 3D render. Forcing them to provide somewhat quality 3D models at a rat race pace.l, to meet the demands of a real a.i. service.

For the record, I sorta wish this was real. Being out of practice, 3D wise, and broke, I would love to test this service out. But I refuse to knowingly fund sweatshops. Digital or physical.

​@@theoneandonlysmallville4294exactly this

I’m thinking this is the case. A 3d modeling service masquerading as a AI. They run it through an initial program and a human goes and modifies it. There’s no way that at $25-$40 a computer service would cost that much.

Ya this company has been hiri g 3d artists in poor countires. There is no ai happening here

​@radiumminis yeah they're ALL over fiver, I point people to that direction when they want a part and can't articulate it enough for me to be able to model it to be usable. It's crazy to realize this could be what's going on here

@@radiumminisCitation on this? (I don't doubt you)

@@daddyfae It can cost that much if they think people will pay the money.

Ya what a scam

was going to say the same

seems their website is no longer available anyways

It's not similar to Kaedim, it's literally Kaedim. They're using their API.

waaaat

Something to be aware. I paid for this service, in the credit card statement the company name was NIKKO INDUSTRIES. A quick google search shows that he is running another business which sells 3d assets. Could it be that the assets he makes for you, he is selling to other people? It says on his site that "it is 100% yours", but on the terms of service it suggests that you are granted a license to use their service for non-commercial purposes. So is it a license, or do we own what you make? This guy is not to be trusted.

That's the part that stuck out to me, if it was truly AI generated I feel like it would just be a single solid object and not separate (logical) objects. Like the teeth on the skull, those would for sure just be deforms on the skull like if you used the drag/move/extrude tool

Yeah I was wondering the same thing but the turn around is 15-30mins which seems a little too fast

That’s exactly what this is. I guarantee it. Check the file names at 7:31 . It’s the same kaedim owner that scammed everyone before saying it was ai. It’s all outsourced.

@@_D3adB0y_ can a professional modeller model something like that helmet in 20 minutes?

The files are named Kaedim when you receive them. It's exactly what you think.

@@UncleJessy This comment is dejavu to the max. I saw a similar video and the exact same comment from the video creator when the same comment from the OP was posted.......this is crazy If you ask me, I 100% believe this is outsourcing to some degree.

I believe he profits off other people rather than doing it himself, seeing how his patreon and shop are filled up, one single guy on it at this pace would go insane

​@@linkdelodela Yes I agree. Nikko is all about delegation. I'm not criticizing that, he is generating business for freelancers. But I do think the fake AI thing is both deceptive and frankly silly. If he offered a simple one-stop modeling service based on image uploads and proudly declared that it was done by people, not AI, I think he'd get more business because many people are against AI (which is IMHO silly in it's own right but people are entitled to their opinions).

@@semiuniversal i am against ai :p and against the fees he seems to take for the freelancers, I'm an artist and a 3d modeler, i hate everything ai stands for, and i do enjoy to pay my rent without overworking myself to death :p

The site doesn’t even exist anymore

@@RepublicansAreDeplorablecap I just went to it

@@Mike-pp7xl you 12? A month ago it didn’t work. Also it was not ai at the time, a human artist would “generate” your model. You are a little late to the party.

There is a zero percent chance that AI is actually AI. It’s not actually intelligent yet. None of it

​@@RepublicansAreDeplorableHow do you know?

Yeah, I think it’s because it’s a new tool. As it grows I’m hoping we see some pricing changes/subscriptions etc

​@@UncleJessyDo you get to pay after you see the render or do you need to pay before the file is generated?

@@Mcowling before unfortunately

Per object! That's stupid expensive, for minimal quality on either setting! Pass...

​@@DavidClunie Considering how much designers charge each hour, this is small in comparison. That dripping skull would take me 6 hours minimum to make from scratch in Nomad.

That’s very very true. Didn’t even think of that

Do you have a source for that claim? AI 3D modeling has been an active area of research by OpenAI and others - this is not the first.

@@DiekiKondrael Jessy showed the wire frame. That's not the style of geometry that any automated system would generate. I'm a professional 3d sculptor with 3 decades of experience. You don't have to take my word for it. We've already gone through this with Kaedim. This is the same thing. Look at the rivets on the helmet. No automated system would split those out as individual spherical elements. Have you seen what the output from NERFs look like?

Thank you for posting this. I gotta say I’m really disappointed in uncle jessy for supporting what he thought was AI.

@@wetterschneider I tried this service out of curiosity and the files I received are named kaedim. Same sus company. They are definitely human created. Geometry is not ai generated.

yeah, my first thought was "that's really cheap for a 3D model" because there probably is some human involved

its definitely not ai

Yeah it will be really interesting to see how this all goes. Also, loved filament folly files 🙃

dont be scared of AI, use it to your advantage. Like this program, you can use it to get the basic shapes mapped out in seconds rather than spending minutes to an hour setting it up. Or even mid journey, it can be a source of inspiration, like if you have an idea in your head just know how to approach it, mid jouney will help you bridge that gap by giving you multiple examples in seconds

I'm sure the 2D-3D a.i. tech will get there, but this isn't it. This is a Germany based company that's very clearly using digital sweatshops. The separated pieces, the mirroring and uniforamtion of the models. It screams human made and low detail due to the sweatshop rush to get the files to customers in below 30 minutes. The files are produced practically identical to how Kaedim did it. A website ousted earlier this year for pulling this very same scam, but as with a subscription service instead. Check my posted comment for more details, if interested. I wish I had the funds to hire ya. I'd likely do it in a heartbeat. I have many characters of mine that I'd live to see made 3D.

This needs to be a higher comment @UncleJessy @@sespider

@@UncleJessy please note the next comment - this video might be leading to missinformation. I don't want this to backfire on ya

You should get into AI, I hear it's really taking off.😉

@@JohnClark-tt2bl no sure if this was a sarcastic type of reply or genuine but if you had a slight idea of what jobs market on programming is like you would know almost 90% is in web development, jobs on AI are really scarce and technically ask you to have a PhD (not joking, I've seen job postings asking for an actual PhD) and basically 5+ years of work experience at least in data science. So to summarize, it's not as simple as it sounds

It’s crazy how fast all of this is moving. I still have a feeling this is all just a tool but you still need specialized modelers to bring these to life/specific projects

@@CrusaderGabriel It was a joke. 😮‍💨

I got some bad news for you about AI and programming....

Yeah I’m hoping as it evolves the pricing comes down or a subscription model

That's exactly how I feel about it. I don't think it's taking away jobs as people are saying. It's more like making their jobs easier by adding a new tool for them to shorten the initial sculpts and then improve and modify them to a final piece of art.

@@livinunderthesun9 the thing is how good was this tech 2 years ago?? it was almost non exisitant, now it's this good, in another 10 years it will replace jobs.

Same here. When PS and LR became more home accessible, well for 1K plus of a program, "real" photographers said similar things. How digital photography is just a push of a button, no art, no heart. Etc. And here we are again (well, we have had this tech for the last decade, it just improved the last 4 years rapidly) the next leap in tech.

@@awildtomappeared5925 Hi, just wanted to inform you that this tech does not exist yet. That site used humans to create simple models so they can lie that they are using AI. The site is down now bcz it was a scam. Same site did the same thing few years back but they forgot to change the names of the files. And also, that is the reason why you pay BEFORE you see the model...bcz a human makes it. This kind of thing was too advanced for AI, the way it divided the mesh...seperated into files...that is impossible. Only a human can do such a thing and such tech will not reach this level in at least 10 years from now.

i just quickly checked., it wants payment info before you can see what is generated.

Yeah it’s before unfortunately. That was my same thought as well. I’m assuming it takes some amount of resources to generate / $$ which is why they are charging up front. Maybe that will change in the future. Or like with midjourney I can regenerate to get a different variation

Cab they create a model like this in 20 minutes?

@@aadlersberg If you check their website, they don't actually specify that your model will be done in 20 minutes. In their FAQ, they said it "It depends on the details of the photo". Normally an AI like this should take the same amount of time regardless of what photo you use, because the actual number of steps computed doesn't change. Unfortunately UncleJessy didn't mention this, but I am not surprised since he is being sponsored by them. This wouldn't be the first time he has advertised for a misleading product.

I would be careful on this. A lot of people seem to think it's outsourced.

Its not actually ai. It is a company that uses poorly paid 3D artists to quickly make models

@@gingerdog8203 Proof?

Yeah it’s getting pretty dang crazy with all this ai tech. I will be replaced here in the next year or so is my guess

@@UncleJessyITS TAKING MY 3D MODELING JOB ALREADY NEXT YEAR I WONT BE NEEDED AT ALL!!!

The difference is you are aware of what is soon coming. Don’t be a deer in the headlights, use it to your advantage. Speaking as someone who was never a thing, because how do you replace nothing😊, I am quite excited and steady practicing while looking for my opportunity to jump into being something.

@@UncleJessy Someone's still gotta run the AI programs and input ideas for them, don't let this stump your creativity. You still had the original idea, just used the AI as a tool to create it quicker. You still used manual modeling skills to make it your original vision, that's how these tools will be used in my opinion.

@@UncleJessy your response means a lot, love your content!!!, But no you can't be replaced You are one of if not my favorite 3D printing channels and no AI automaton can replace you, Stay great

I was thinking the same thing. I'm very skeptical of this.

@@bandit7497 it’s probably not AI but I’d say that’s pretty fair for a model no?

Its the amount of time that tells me its AI. he said like 20 minutes after you upload the image. Im sorry, but people arent making those 3D models that fast.

@andrewlongfellow8745 I can't comment on that since I don't really have experience as a 3d modeler. I just find 3d printing videos interesting to watch vicariously. I would just be surprised if some obscure company released ai 3d before one of the bigger ones. Even with 2d the ai images can be a pain in the ass to get exactly what you want so I'm skeptical of this from that standpoint.

In 12 minutes time is probably not a person

That’s the SketchPad, doing a video soon on all of my different tablet stands & benefits

I wonder if throwing watermarks over the images would throw off the ai tool

@@UncleJessy It's not AI. So, no, watermarks won't prevent the human modeler from modeling.

@@UncleJessy I'm going to guess that AI can overcome watermarks, but I hate doing that to my pics anyhow.

@@wetterschneider My pics were input into the same program he's using in this video, and AI is indeed creating the STL files.

iPad Pro + Apple Pencil - using a sketch board stand

Also, my card was charged to Nikko Industries when I purchased from them. Seems like if they are the same company, they should mention that on the website?

@@a.turner9609 Huh, that is interesting. I just spent about 10 minutes searching and you may be right. They have the same first/last in the contact information. With all their models, I wonder if the database they used is based solely on the input info from N I. I mean, when it tried to generate the spartan helm for UJ, I wonder if it based the parameters on the 50+ N.I. helmets. If so, I like that because it takes care of the worry generally associated with A.I. using other people's stuff.

It's a scam! PLEASE read my long explination reply in Jessy's Pinned comment. I break it all down. I also posted it as a thread to Jessy's 𝕏 tweet for the video, but it's posted as a thread. Upvotes to my replies/comments explaining it would greatly help get the word out about this scam. Too many creators are falling for it.

​@@RoseKindred It's a scam 100%! Their URL data lists Arazona as their origins, but they screwed up and listed a Germany company (based on the phone number) as their fraud report center. The domain was also registered on the same month as the site went public (July 2023). Only scammers are that stupid.

no one cares!!!!

@@evanaretz3232 you cared enough to reply...

This is likely the same company (Kaedim). I broke down all of the red flags in a reply to Jessy's pinned comment. They claim to be from Arazona, but I traced them to Germany. Look up the site's domain url. It was registered the same month the site debuted. Tech companies, especially this so-called advance, don't do that. They purchase their domains months to years in advance.

If you're a vendor, you sell a printed model for about $15 each, you only need 2 to make a profit from the lower tier, and 3 to break even from the higher tier. If you're planning on opening a booth or something at a fair, those kinds of numbers are easy. It's 100% worth it, you just have to be intentional with your submissions since you can't just willy nilly upload and convert images without a plan.

I have to kinda disagree. In several of the 3D groups I am in even the "beginner" designers are like $ 30h r for design work. Something like that dripping skull would take me about 6 hours in Nomad. The spooky tree example shown about an hour. I don't even want to guess on the Cthulhu model.

@@RoseKindred Hi, Thanks for your comment and adding to our community. :) days. I don't wanna start a discussion and I'm more than happy with your comment, even though I still think the pricing is not right; among many things, I have to write code on a regular bases and AI has saved me many hours. I know how to code, so, the legs up is really great. If I had to pay $40 for every snipped of code, I'd not use it. My 3d designs are mostly functional and I rarely use Z-Brush, but, still, that's the point I'm coming from. (Don't know if a "professional" would be happy to pay $40+ for an starting point and pass the cost down).

@@ronalddhs3726 Oh I get it. If they know how to use the tools already, then this program doesn't sound like it would be for them. The way I see this, it would be great for those people who want a model to print but cannot find a designer, mainly because they want something new and highly detailed for like ten bucks. I've had too close contacting because of the requests. They don't appreciate the work that goes into learning the software as well as the time spent in the actual design. Even though I am not a professional, I can see this for myself if I want to create a detailed base mesh to build upon. Such as the helmet example. I have no experience making them, so to get a "helmet with 3 horns in a mohawk" I think it would be more than worth it to use this. Create a generalized helmet and then I can add my horns. If I wanted to add wires, like a cyberpunk helmet, I can reload the generalized base mesh and add them myself. Like getting an asset pack for Unreal and using it as a base.

The prices are really high for what amounts to a few minutes of processing on (probably) some Amazon S3 instance somewhere. Eventually, this type of software will find its way into the open/free domain and it'll just be a feature of Blender.

Same thought here. I'm not paying 20 or 40 dollars for something, where I dont get any indicator of quality.

Yeah, this looks like a scam. They contact a bunch of RU-vidrs and influencers, give them a code to some free prints, then give it to some poor 3D students in some sweatshop to make convincing but high quality "AI" prints, then just harvest a bunch of money, credit card info and personal data from everyone that falls for the video while they ride off onto the next town. I don't think the video makers are to blame, they got swindled too, just in a different way.

I still think AI 3D modeling will be extremely limited compared to what it did to 2D art. The only reason 2D AI art got that way is because it's very easy to look up art online and download images and the image is literally all it needs. The difference with 3D models is that 3D AI modeling is still heavily reliant on 2D images and you still have to pay most 3D artists to even download their STL files, meaning 3D models can't be stolen en mass the way 2D images can.

This is not AI. It is a scam site, human makes a simple 3D model and then submits to the user. The files that he got were all named kaedim which is the name of the previous website that used that kind of scam. Yes, indeed that is the same website but they changed the name and forgot to change the names of the files. So you don't have to be scared, at least for now bcz this is all done by a human which is why it costs $40 and the model is really bad(you get what you pay for) but the mesh is divided in a way that it is 1000% clear it is made by a human.

Yeah, it still has a ways to go but will be interesting to see where this all lands

What’s wild to me is that this is just the starting point, a year from now could be potentially crazy