3D Profile Avatar: example result
Branding & Marketing template · free to try

3D Avatar From Your Photo

Turn your photo into a 3D avatar for your profile

Try it with your photo
Free to try · takes about 2–3 min

Upload a normal photo. About 2–3 min later you download a 3D avatar as GLB or USDZ, ready to use. No 3D skills needed.

Try it

Try it with your photo

Turn your photo into a 3D avatar for your profile. The prompts and settings are already done for you.

3D Profile Avatar: example result
Example 1 of 4
Upload a selfie
Style
Quality

~2–3 min · profile render + 3D model · GLB · free to try

Examples

Made with this template

The photo in the corner of each one is what went in.

Bearded man as a clay avatar
From a photo
Bearded man as a clay avatar
Grandma as a toy avatar
From a photo
Grandma as a toy avatar
Developer as a 3D avatar
From a photo
Developer as a 3D avatar

Each example is an actual run of this template at Standard quality, made from a realistic sample photo.

How it works

From photos to file in about 2–3 min

Upload a photo, then wait while 2 AI steps run. Nothing to set up.

  1. 1
    You
    You add a photo

    A clear, front-facing photo of your face

  2. Image Studio2
    AI
    AI redraws your picture

    Image Studio keeps your face shape, hair, skin tone, glasses and beard and restyles you as a smiling 3D bust facing the camera.

  3. Image to 3D3
    AI
    AI builds it in 3D

    Image to 3D (Prism 3.1) builds a textured model with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.

  4. GLB USDZ FBX
    4
    Yours
    You download the file

    As GLB, USDZ or FBX. You can use it however you like.

After the download

Where people use it

You get GLB, USDZ or FBX, so it opens in most 3D apps and prints too.

Our new look
On your website
View in your room
On a phone, in AR
Website and socials

A 3D version of your logo or mascot for headers, posts and stories.

Video intros

Spin it in a video editor or a 3D app for an intro or reveal.

Print it

Signs, desk pieces and merch: the STL prints on any printer.

Behind the scenes

How this template works

Image Studio turns your selfie into a friendly, recognisable 3D avatar bust; the render is your new profile picture, and Image to 3D builds a model for your site or streams.

  1. 1
    Step 1 · Image Studio

    Design your avatar

    Image Studio keeps your face shape, hair, skin tone, glasses and beard and restyles you as a smiling 3D bust facing the camera.

    GPT Image 2.5 Flare · low quality

    Open Image Studio
  2. 2
    Step 2 · Image to 3D

    Build the 3D model

    Image to 3D (Prism 3.1) builds a textured model with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.

    Prism 3.1 · Fast textures · Standard mesh

    Open Image to 3D

Do it yourself for more control

  • Make the whole team in the same style for your about page.
  • Use the render as your profile picture on LinkedIn, Slack and socials.
  • Rotate the 3D model in a <model-viewer> on your personal site.
New here

What is 3D AI Studio?

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install.

A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.

Runs in your browserPhone or computer
Inside this template
  1. Step 1
    Image Studio

    Edits and redraws pictures with AI image models.

  2. Step 2
    Image to 3D

    Turns a single picture into a textured 3D model.

Before you start

What you need

  • A photo from your phone
    A clear, front-facing photo of your face
  • 3D software or skills
    Not needed. It all happens in the browser
  • A free account
    Sign up with Google or email
Free to try

Sign up for free and make your first one right away. Downloading the files is part of the paid plans.

Friendly 3DDefault

polished 3D animated-film character like a modern animated movie, glossy eyes, soft rounded forms, bright friendly colours and a plain coloured top.

Clay

handmade plasticine claymation figure, visibly sculpted from soft matte modelling clay with fingerprints and tool marks, simple bead-like eyes and muted colours.

Toy

glossy collectible vinyl toy figure, very simplified features, dot eyes, smooth shiny plastic and bold flat colours.

Your download

The files you get

GLBOne file with the model and its textures.

For Godot, Blender, websites and AR viewers.

USDZApple's AR format.

Tap it on an iPhone to place the model in your room.

FBXThe usual 3D file for game engines.

Drag it into Unity, Unreal or Roblox Studio.

Best results

Which photo to use

A photo like this works
  • A clear, front-facing photo in daylight works best.
  • Glasses, beards and hairstyles are kept.
  • Several photos help when your face is partly hidden.

Good to know: The avatar is a bust (head and shoulders) and isn't rigged for face tracking.

MCP connector

Run this template from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Connect the 3D AI Studio MCP to your AI assistant and paste the brief into the chat. It runs the same steps with the same prompts and settings, shows you the result in the conversation and saves it to your library.

Style
  1. Connect the MCP once in your account settings. It's included in every paid plan.
  2. Copy the brief.
  3. Paste it into a new chat. Your assistant opens an upload card for your photo, then runs every step.
Tools it calls
upload_imageedit_image_gptgenerate_prism_3_1convert_modelget_generationshow_generation
Chat brief · 3D Profile Avatar
Use the 3D AI Studio MCP to run the "3D Profile Avatar" template (https://www.3daistudio.com/templates/3d-avatar-from-photo) for me.

My photo(s): I'll hand them over when you call upload_image.
Style: Friendly 3D

Follow these steps in order. The prompts and settings are the template's own, so use them word for word.

1. Get my photos
Call upload_image with purpose "Photo for the 3D Profile Avatar template" so I can hand them over (images attached in the chat don't reach the MCP). I can upload up to 3 photos of the same subject; use all of them.

2. Design my avatar
Call edit_image_gpt with my uploaded photo(s) in images, quality "low", output_format "png" and this prompt:
"""
The reference photo(s) show one person; that person is the subject. Keep them recognisable through their likeness: face shape, nose, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, hairstyle, hair colour, skin tone, glasses or beard and build. Do NOT copy the face from the photo: re-create the whole head, face, hair and neck from scratch in exactly the same style, material, level of detail, lighting and colour grading as the rest of the character, as if one artist made the entire character at once. The head sits naturally on the body at the character's proportions, with no photographic skin texture, no photo lighting, no visible seam, edge or colour shift at the neck, and no head that looks pasted on. Only the outfit, gear and styling change as described. Reimagine the person as a stylized 3D cartoon avatar bust, rendered as a fully CGI 3D character and clearly not a photo or a realistic portrait: head, neck and shoulders, an oversized head with big expressive eyes, a small simplified nose, smooth simplified skin without pores or wrinkle detail, chunky sculpted hair shapes and a big friendly smile, while staying recognisable through their face shape, hairstyle, hair colour, skin tone, glasses and beard. Facing the camera in a straight-on frontal view, the bust ending in a clean rounded cut below the shoulders, the whole bust visible with generous empty margin. Seamless pure white (#FFFFFF) background, soft even studio lighting, no cast shadows, no text. Style: polished 3D animated-film character like a modern animated movie, glossy eyes, soft rounded forms, bright friendly colours and a plain coloured top. The face, hair and beard are re-created in that same style: stylized features, no photographic skin, no pores, wrinkles or realistic stubble, and hair and beard as sculpted stylized shapes with no individual hairs. Most important: the whole figure, head and face included, is a stylized 3D character bust in exactly that style, as one consistent physical object made by one artist. The face must not look like a photo or a realistic photographed face: it is re-created in exactly the same style, level of detail, finish and colours as the rest, with no photographic part anywhere.
"""

3. Build the 3D model
Call generate_prism_3_1 with the task_id of the image from step 2 in images, texture_model "3.5", texture_quality "fast", geometry_quality "standard", pbr false.

4. Export
Export it for Website / Shopify unless I name another target: call convert_model on the 3D model with output_format "fbx_zip" (FBX with its textures) for Unity / 3D apps; output_format "usdz" for iPhone AR. Website / Shopify or Blender take the generated GLB as it is, no conversion needed.

After each generation call, keep polling get_generation with its task_id until it completes, then show me the result with show_generation before you start the next step.

Or automate it with the API

The same tools are available through the 3D AI Studio API. Call them from your own code to make hundreds at once, build them into your app or run them in your pipeline.

3D Profile Avatar: questions & answers

3D AI Studio is a web app that makes 3D models, images and sounds with AI. It runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install. A template is a saved recipe. It runs a fixed set of AI tools with settings we've already tested, so all you add is a photo or a sentence.

Yes. The Image Studio render is a clean square image; open it from your library and set a background colour if you like.

Not directly; the bust isn't rigged for face tracking. It works for static avatars, intros and overlays.

Yes. Everyone uploads a selfie and picks the same style, so the avatars match.

Sign up for free and make your first one right away. Downloading the files is part of the paid plans.

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