Cartoon Character of You: example result
3D Printing template · free to try

Turn Yourself Into a 3D Cartoon

Turn your photo into an animated-movie style figurine

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

Upload a normal photo. About 2–3 min later you download an animated-movie style figurine as STL or 3MF, ready to print. No 3D skills needed.

Try it

Try it with your photo

Turn your photo into an animated-movie style figurine. The prompts and settings are already done for you.

Cartoon Character of You: example result
Example 1 of 4
Who is in the photo?
Upload a photo
Style
ExpressionOptionalHappy
Quality

~2–3 min · STL & 3MF · a gift people actually keep · free to try

Examples

Made with this template

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

Gardener as a cartoon character
From a photo
Gardener as a cartoon character
Black cat as a cartoon character
From a photo
Black cat as a cartoon character
Chef as a cartoon character
From a photo
Chef as a cartoon character

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

    1–5 photos of the same person, pet or couple

  2. Image Studio2
    AI
    AI redraws your picture

    Image Studio (GPT Image 2.5 Flare) keeps your face, hair and look recognisable while giving you big expressive eyes, soft rounded features and a full body on a round base.

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

    Image to 3D (Prism 3.1) builds the figurine with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.

  4. STL 3MF OBJ
    4
    Yours
    You download the file

    As STL, 3MF or OBJ. You can use it however you like.

After the download

Print it at home or order it

Open the STL in your slicer, or upload it to a print service if you don't have a printer.

Fresh off your printer
On your shelf
Print it at home

Any FDM or resin printer works. Open the file in your slicer and press print.

No printer? Order it

Upload the STL to an online print service or a local print shop and get it delivered.

Give it as a gift

Birthdays, weddings, a thank-you for a teacher. Nobody else will have the same one.

Paint it

Print in grey and paint it, or print in colour if your printer can.

Behind the scenes

How this template works

Image Studio redraws your photo as a character from an animated movie, then Image to 3D builds the figurine you print.

  1. 1
    Step 1 · Image Studio

    Cartoon-ify your photo

    Image Studio (GPT Image 2.5 Flare) keeps your face, hair and look recognisable while giving you big expressive eyes, soft rounded features and a full body on a round base.

    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 the figurine with Fast textures and Standard mesh quality.

    Prism 3.1 · Fast textures · Standard mesh

    Open Image to 3D

Do it yourself for more control

  • Describe an outfit or prop in the Image Studio prompt: a guitar, a lab coat, a superhero cape.
  • Use Detailed textures for crisper eyes and faces.
  • Paint it after printing, or print in full colour on a multi-material printer.
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
    1–5 photos of the same person, pet or couple
  • 3D software or skills
    Not needed. It all happens in the browser
  • A 3D printer
    Optional. You can order the print online
  • 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.

EverydayDefault

their own clothes from the photo, simplified into clean cartoon shapes and bright colours.

Adventurer

an explorer's outfit with a satchel and boots, ready for an adventure.

Royal

a regal outfit with a small crown and a short velvet cape.

Your download

The files you get

STLThe standard file for 3D printers.

Open it in a slicer such as Bambu Studio, PrusaSlicer or Cura, then press print.

3MFA newer print file that also keeps size and colours.

Best for Bambu Lab and Prusa printers.

OBJA universal 3D file with its colour texture.

Opens in Blender and almost every 3D app.

Best results

Which photo to use

A photo like this works
  • One clearly visible subject works best; crop out other people if you can.
  • A full-body photo helps, but a selfie is fine: the pose and body are reconstructed.
  • Daylight beats flash: even light keeps colours true.

Good to know: The style is our own animated-movie look; it isn't affiliated with or copying any studio's characters.

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.

Subject
Style
Expression
  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 · Cartoon Character of You
Use the 3D AI Studio MCP to run the "Cartoon Character of You" template (https://www.3daistudio.com/templates/turn-yourself-into-a-cartoon) for me.

My photo(s): I'll hand them over when you call upload_image.
Subject: Person
Style: Everyday
Expression: Happy

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 Cartoon Character of You template" so I can hand them over (images attached in the chat don't reach the MCP). I can upload up to 5 photos of the same subject; use all of them.

2. Cartoon-ify my photo
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 instantly recognisable through what identifies them: face shape, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and smile, hairstyle and hair colour, skin tone, glasses, beard or freckles, and their outfit with its colours and patterns. Their real body proportions do NOT carry over: head size, body, arms and legs follow the style below exactly, even where that is far from the photo. 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. Where an outfit, costume, uniform or armour is described below, it replaces their own clothes; their face, hair and look still carry over. If several photos are provided they all show the same subject from different angles or moments: merge them into ONE consistent figure and pick the clearest features. The photos may be cropped or show only the face or upper body: reconstruct the COMPLETE body anyway, from the top of the head to the feet or paws, including legs, feet, shoes, tail and all limbs, complete and believable at the proportions of the requested style, matching everything visible. Never crop, cut off or hide any part of the body, never show a bust or half figure, and do not leave anything outside the frame. Reimagine the subject as a 3D animated movie character figurine: big expressive eyes, a slightly oversized head, soft rounded stylized features, smooth clean surfaces and warm appealing proportions, while staying instantly recognisable. Standing on a small round flat base, the entire figure visible from head to base with generous empty margin, perfectly centered, frontal full-body view, nothing cropped. Chunky printable shapes with no thin fragile parts. Isolated on a seamless pure white (#FFFFFF) background, soft even studio lighting, no shadows on the background, no text. Face: re-drawn like a character from a 3D animated feature film: large expressive eyes with glossy highlights, a simplified nose and mouth, smooth stylized skin with no pores, wrinkles or photographic texture, hair and any beard as smooth stylized sculpted shapes. The same smooth, clean animated-film surfaces and colours on the face, the body and the clothes. Outfit: their own clothes from the photo, simplified into clean cartoon shapes and bright colours. Most important: the whole figure, head and face included, is a 3D animated movie character figurine, 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 printing: call convert_model on the 3D model with output_format "3mf" (or "stl" if I ask for it), plus max_size and unit "cm" if I gave you a print size.

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.

Cartoon Character of You: 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. Pick Pet and the breed, colours and markings are kept while it gets the cartoon look.

Yes. Pick Couple and upload a photo with everyone in it; they're placed together on one base.

10–15 cm is a great desk size. Set it in Print Export before exporting.

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

Turn your photo into an animated-movie style figurine

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