I Drew Something and AI Created It in Real Life

I drew this on a piece of paper. It is a mushroom. I don't know if you can tell, but now I'm holding it in real life. I am not good at 3D modeling, so I wanted to see if AI could take a drawing this bad and turn it into something that my 3D printer could make. And I didn't just use one AI, I actually gave the same drawing to four different AI tools to see how they would do, which one actually gets it right. Then I took the one from Tripo, 3D printed it, and here we are. Tripo sponsored this video, but they asked for an honest comparison of them to other tools. They're looking to make their product better, so here we go. Most people can't draw. I have absolutely no artistic ability. One of the reasons I love AI so much is I can kind of fake artistic ability with AI. So here are the rules for this challenge. I'm going to take this same photo. I'm going to put it into four different AI 3D modeling tools and we're going to do one try each. I'm going to score each of these platforms on does it look like, what I drew, is the model clean, how long did it take to run, and does the file load into my printer's app without errors. Then I'm actually going to try to 3D print this image that I drew and we'll see. I think this will be pretty cool. I'm going to print Tripo's model at the end no matter how it scores because that's the test. They actually asked me to do this test. You know, and this is the next wave of AI. So far up to this point, AI has mostly been all on a computer, right? It's done software, it's done your computer work, the email, things that you do on a computer. But AI, for the most part, has not gotten into the real world. It's not gotten into physical things. So we're starting to see that a little bit with robotics. But this is another area where AI is making its way into the real world, and that's with 3D printing. And one quick note, just to make sure that everything's completely fair and even, Tripo gave me their paid plan for this video. The other three, I'm using their free plans, but every tool's on its default settings. I don't think that should matter, but just thought you should know. So first up, let's start with Meshy here. So Meshy, they have image. So let's go ahead and use this. So you can upload an image or you can use their agent. I'm going to just use agents just because it's a little bit easier, but we'll upload the image. So this is my not so good mushroom. And I'm not even going to say anything. I'm just going to give it that and then see what it does with it. All right. So this agent came back and said to make sure the 3D model matches what you have in mind. Could you clarify what object this represents? Rocket nozzle, handle, speaker, or other object. You know what? That's kind of insulting. I don't know what you're talking about. This is obviously a mushroom. Why didn't I pick something easier? What's easier to draw than a mushroom, though? It's supposed to be a mushroom, like from Mario. So we'll send that. Then they let me choose the options, you know, like what model to use and everything. But I'm going to just use the default. So I'm going to let the agent pick what it thinks is best. I think that will be the best test here. So we'll just approve and just get going on it. All right. So what this agent did was I told it I wanted a mushroom kind of like Mario. So it kind of just ignored my image that I drew. Here's a classic Mario-style mushroom based on your sketch. Do you want to go with that? So that's an interesting way to handle this. Maybe I was too specific in what I was trying to draw. But honestly, this is what I was trying to draw. Looking at it now, I did not draw it as well as my memory served. But I'm going to do that. I'm going to say convert it to 3D. Alright, so here's what Meshy came up with for the 3D model. It has it, you know, with color and without color. Then the agent's asking me, I can check printability. If this works out, I might want to print this one. It looks pretty nice, be fun to print out. So let's check printability on this one. When you have a 3D model, there's a difference between a 3D model and a 3D model that you can actually print on a 3D printer. Because sometimes you can make shapes on the computer that are not actually possible to print out. So that's what they're checking for here. And it says there's zero critical errors. There's one warning. And it says most modern slicers will clean up any problems that there are. So this should print okay. So I'm going to go ahead and click download. Um, and if I want to resize it, I have to upgrade plan actually to download it at all. I have to get a monthly plan. So that a little bit disappointing. Like on the free version, I can't get the model at all. Like not even one just to see if it works. So unfortunate, but it did a good job of reading what I had. I had to tell it, it didn't know, but once I told it what I was looking for, um, although at that point it basically just becomes a text to 3D model. Cause I just told it, Hey, make a mushroom like from Mario. Okay, now we're gonna do Tencent here. So we're gonna do image to 3D. We're gonna upload our image. We'll see how it does Same mushroom image we're putting in here These are Chinese characters. I don't totally know what that says. Let's translate it to English I think maybe it's the wrong size. Please upload an image with a resolution lower Then okay, so it says my resolution is too high. So I'm gonna convert This image, it's too bad that it can't do that for me. That would be kind of nice. Let's just make it large instead of actual size. We'll see if that helps. So you can see it's a way smaller file now, but it is .jpg now. Let's see how it does with that. Okay. And it says the subject is unclear. I get that. Okay. Tencent, I know it's unclear, but can you at least guess All right, so Tencent, I couldn't really get to work at all. And I understand it's a bad image, but Meshy at least guessed, you know, it did something. We're going to try Rodin here. We're going to go image to 3D. Then let's see, I can upload an image. Let's go ahead and put my mushroom there. We'll go ahead and generate. All right, here's what Hyper3D put together. And I do appreciate it made what I drew. So that is what I drew. Kind of. It looks like it has a... Rear end there. I think they think it's a person with arms and a body. It kind of made a guess, like that's the direction that we're going. But then, you know, it put up here simple drawn mushroom, but this doesn't look too much like a mushroom, but it did. I mean, that is what I drew pretty close to exact. So this is pretty good. So I'm going to confirm it. I don't know what all this means, so I'm just going to use whatever is default there. And it's getting to work. All right, and here's what Rodin came back with as its 3D model. That's, you know, it's a mushroom. It knew what I drew. So maybe my drawing wasn't as bad as I thought it was. Hyper3D now. Let me download it. Okay, and we've got the same issue, you have to pay to download, so that looks like kind of the standard among these, is you can generate for free, you can kind of mess around with it for free, if you want to download it to use it for something, that's when you have to pay, which I don't blame people for making you pay, okay, you have to make money, right? These aren't charities, it's not just like, hey, have fun with this, but I mean, they're trying to make money, so I totally get it. And here's Tripo, so we've got this to generate quickly, so let's go ahead and take the image, put it into Tripo, we'll see how it does with it. Let's go ahead and generate. I like this, this is pretty cool. Gives you something to do while you wait. You can just mess around with this. And you can see the viewer for the 3D model. Wow, this is actually really cool as it's generating. This is the shape of what I'm making. I like, Trippo, that it's actually making what I drew. It doesn't totally know what it is, I don't think, but it's making as close as it can to what I drew. It's not guessing, making something else. It's not just throwing an error, saying, hey, we don't know what that is. And I really like you can see it as it's coming together. Like you can see what the AI is putting together in real time. So Trippo, this is exactly what I drew. I mean, it guessed on what's supposed to be on the back. Um, I think it put eyes there. It looks like it's thinking I made a mushroom character and so it's guessing, Hey, maybe it should have eyes. You do get a free retry, you know, if it went completely the wrong direction, but I think I'm going to give a shot at just printing this and we'll see how it goes. So the Trippo process was by far the most enjoyable to watch. It was cool. It like made pieces and had it come together as it was going. And I think this came out the most accurate to what I drew. So we're going to take this model and take it further. We're going to hook it up to my 3D printer. I have like just a cheap 3D printer that the kids mostly use to print toys. We could do a video about that. You know, making a 3D printed toys business. I see those at Farmer's Market for like $20. I'm like, I know you 3D printed that for like 5 cents. Anyways, separate video for a separate time. But let's export this and we'll get it going on the 3D printer. My 3D printer I have is Toy Box. I'll leave a link if you want to check out Toy Box. It's basically meant to print out little toys, okay? So if you get one of these for your kids, your house is going to be full of little plastic toys. Just be aware of that. But you can create, you can import a model and print it on here, and it's looking for either an STL, OBJ, 3MF, or G-code file. So Trippo used its H3.1 model, which is its highest quality model that it defaults to. It even kind of looks like it put like mushroom texture on here. As I zoom in, I think this is pretty cool. My printer only prints one color at a time, so the texture, any texture work that you do isn't going to show up on a 3D printed model. But if you're doing like video game editing or something, then it would matter there. And this is their smart mesh. So it's their other mode. It's built for speed, but it makes a light, clean model that's ready for things like games. Let's try generating with their smart mesh and we'll see how fast that goes. So the smart mesh was a lot faster, but not quite as detailed. So then for my printing, I'm going to go back to HD model and I'm going to generate in parts because my 3D printer is pretty basic. I can't do multiple colors in the same print. So I actually need like if the cap's going to be red, the stem's going to be white. Then I'm gonna have to switch colors mid print so I'm gonna generate into parts and just keep it simple Like I just really want the cap red the stem white best quality. Let's go ahead and generate this one All right, so it's split it into five different parts here And the colors don't actually matter because I'm gonna be switching the filaments myself. So it'll be pretty interesting I'll show kind of that process I did do some things back here that if I was gonna do it again? I would probably fix that but I think this will work. Okay, so I'm going to just take all these parts and I'm going to merge them together. So we just have two parts. So we're going to make this top. We're going to do it in red. We'll do this bottom part in white. Then I think this will work. I'll save it. Then I think I can send this to my. 3D printer. If you have a bamboo printer, you can send it right here to Bamboo Studio, but I don't. So I'm just going to export it. And my toy box, my 3D printer is pretty small. I'm going to do 3MF, no texture or skeleton. We'll export it as that one. All right. So now we will We will go ahead and import 3D file. I called it Knife 3D model. I don't know why. But we'll go ahead and import this into my Toybox account. We've got our two parts here. It imported really well. We've got the cap here. And then we've got the stem. Let's go ahead and delete the stem. And this one, we're going to just do the cap. Put grounding so that it's down at the bottom, not up at the top. Go ahead and save it. All right. And for it to fit on there, I had to just rotate it a little bit. But I'm going to go put in the red filament and we will get this printing right. So it finished 3D printing. Here it is. So how does this compare this mushroom to my drawing? I think it did a pretty good job. Very cool. Of course, if I drew it 3D, you know, we could work on this model and obviously get a better drawing, but just kind of wanted to see what is possible. Um, what you can do. I'm giving Trippo the win on pretty much all of the different categories that I checked in these different 3d model generators. Um, I like that you didn't have to bounce between different apps to, you know, you can make the model, split it into parts, um, get it fixed for printing all in the same place. And I thought it made the best model actually the closest to my drawing. Uh, and it had that cool animation while it was generating, which I really liked as well. So if you want to try it out, go build something through my link. Again, you can build it for free. You can't export it and... You probably don't have the 3D printer and stuff like that, but go at least try it out. Build a cool, draw something, make a cool 3D model. I'd love for you to comment and just kind of see what you put together. I'll leave links down below for all that. Trippo website, I have an invite code, DSYLVA. You get 500 bonus credits, and if you sign up and subscribe, within 24 hours, you get 60% off your first month of the Pro or Max plan. So go check that out. Also leave a link to Toybox. Go try that out. Just a cheap, small 3D printer that you can use to make cool toys or cool mushrooms, in this case. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really enjoy what I do. This was a fun one. I might do more with my 3D printer. I think I can do some cool stuff with that. But God bless you all. Have a great rest of your day, and we'll talk to you later. That was different. I usually say, have a great rest of your day. I switched it up. Keep life interesting.