From AI Prompt To Printable Figure with Jake McKee: Episode 159

About this episode

The episode explores the process of creating custom 3D printed figures from AI-generated images with guest Jake McKee.

An AI prompt that becomes a real scale figure you can hold in your hand sounds like science fiction, but the gap just got a lot smaller. We sit down with returning guest Jake McKee to walk through the exact, messy, real-world workflow he is using right now to create custom 3D printed figures for a diorama, starting with an AI-generated photoreal image and ending with a printable STL. We dig into what works, what breaks, and why “yes, no, and maybe” is the most honest answer when you ask wheth...

People in this episode

Guest: Jake McKee

Topics covered

• AI
• 3D printing
• scale modeling
• custom figures
• workflow

Keywords

• AI prompt
• 3D printed figures
• STL
• diorama
• photoreal image

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