BlenderGPT

[gd3kr]

Hey HN! I'm aarya (twitter.com/gd3kr) and I built BlenderGPT

Really overwhelmed with the traffic, will be defaulting to a less compute intensive model for a bit. Will try to keep up with this thread and respond to questions/comments but mostly focused on not letting BlenderGPT crash.

BlenderGPT is entirely bootstrapped and i'm really the only one on the team. Also, The required google sign in is only put in place to prevent botting/account creation abuse which is really not ideal when dealing with expensive GPU associated compute costs while generating every model.

I hope you have fun with it! DM me on twitter if you enjoy it and would like more credits to try it out.

[TheRealPomax]

You may need to rename it, though, as this is not an official Blender project. [1]

Even if "Blender" wasn't an officially trademarked name (which it is, in both the US and EU), standing on the shoulders of Open Source also means respecting their rules when it comes to using a project's name to market your own creation.

(Unless you asked for, and received, permission of course. In which case that's something you'll want to mention on the landing page so folks know you did the right thing)

[1] https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

[andrewmcwatters]

I know it won't hit the same if you change its name, but like the others here, I really would recommend that you come up with some new product name. Additionally, the glyph you're looking for is ™, not ®, if you're not registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

It seems like you're doing a great job, and these are some low hanging fruit you can address just to make sure you're not violating trademark law.

[999900000999]

This is much better than I expected.

I first asked it to generate "The last MC left" and it crested a 3rd model of a microphone.

Not winning any awards, but it's a decent model I could imagine a professional using as a template ( also works for props in the background).

The I asked it to generate "Heavy D and the Boy's"( RIP to Heavy D) and it tried to generate models of a rap group, the face textures aren't great.

Maybe add a disclaimer saying what you generate well and what you don't. Looks like a cool prototyping tool. Thank you for sharing

[jstummbillig]

Fantastic! 3D Modeling is such labor intensive high skill work, and tools like this will raise the floor by a ton.

It's exciting to think about everything that's going to become possible in the coming years.

[CobrastanJorji]

I want something a little related to this. I want a little auto assist tool in Blender so I can hit a keyboard shortcut, circle something, and say "extrude a square right around this area" or "close this mesh" or "make this shell a solid object." Stuff that an experienced Blender artist knows exactly how to do but might require some thinking. In other words, coding auto-assist for Blender user. Bonus points if it shows the steps.

Is that a thing?

[sambaumann]

Is this based on trellis?

[yuvalr1]

Hi aarya!

A really amazing project. I would really love using this tool, and other GenAI tools to generate art. There is one recurring problem that I don't know the answer to: how could I know that no one is going to sue me for using this kind of tool for copyright infringement? How can I know that the model I generate is not too similar or copying some artist's style somewhere?

[ur-whale]

This is fun!!

I made a thing, here's the prompt:

coffee mug with "I AM THE BOSS" written very large and horizontally on the side. Cup must hold 75 cl of liquid.

Funny thing: the tiny icon has the correct words, but the final object has something unreadable on the side.

Very nice work anyhow!

[deskr]

Nice work. It would be good to have examples (images, models and their prompt) on the front page. That might also lessen the load a bit.

[mrtksn]

Cool tool, the models I created were a bit crude though. Is there a way to increase details? Is prompting affecting it? For example in image generation adding keywords like "photorealistic, octane, HD" helps. Is this the case in this tool too?

Also, I'm curious on how this works? It appears that when you use a text prompt it first generates an image thumbnail of the model. Is it first creating an image from propmpt and then running this image to create the 3D model?

[afeezaziz]

Hi aarya, id like to contribute especially on how to make the animations in blenderGPT.

[kuczmama]

This is awesome! Thank you for building this.

[chefandy]

Where did you pull your training data from?

[SubiculumCode]

The name is unacceptable. I literally thought this was a project by Blender. You are asking to get sued to oblivion.

[ta988]

looks like it is only for google users?

[fourside]

Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” when it doesn’t apply. There’s just something a bit off about this. Maybe it’s all fine but the the lack of information doesn’t help.

[xnx]

Anyone interested in this type of thing should check out the free and open source TRELLIS: https://huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS

Upload an image and it outputs a 3D model.

Use a separate image generator to make a model of anything you can imagine.

[idiocache]

Kid's getting way too much hate for what seems to be quite a cool project! Oh he "just" put a UI in front of Trellis? Yes. He did. You didn't.

Keep up the good work, gd3kr :)

[adroitboss]

Is this just a wrapper around the Microsoft project released a few days ago? https://trellis3d.github.io/

[xnx]

That seems to be the main part of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400537

[romanovcode]

Yeah, that's why the website is so barebones.

[simonw]

It did quite well on my "a pelican riding a bicycle" test: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2024/a-pelican-ridin...

The 2D loading indicator it showed me was even better! https://blendergptv2-jobs.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/generat... - anyone know what BlenderGPT uses for that? Might be FLUX or similar.

[cbartlett]

Blender is a registered trademark, I'm pretty sure this has nothing to do with blender. I'm not sure GPT is safe or even correct either.

[ec109685]

GPT trademark was rejected: https://www.saul.com/insights/alert/what-gpt-and-who-owns-it

[cchance]

It has a quick export to blender format is why i imagine it named that

[para_parolu]

Bestbuy is full of equipment with Blender in name. How they do it?

[abraxas]

What's the technical underpinning of this? Is this a novel prompt to 3D technique or is this a user interface on something preexisting?

[wincy]

I’d hazard a guess that this is using the Microsoft Trellis [0] open source project released last week. You can download the weights and the code right now, just need an Nvidia GPU with at least 16GB vram.

I saw people doing this manually on X last Friday, using FLUX diffusion model -> Trellis -> Blender

[0] https://trellis3d.github.io/

[terminalbraid]

"Try it out for free!"

Demands a google account, as if my personal info is somehow worthless.

[mrtksn]

IMHO this unjustified negativity, it's asking you to sign with your Google account which gives them very basic info about you which is very reasonable considering that they are going to give you a computationally intensive demo. It's a common practice against abuse, it's not asking you to install a tracking software or anything.

[gregjw]

Considering infra costs, it kind of is worthless, they aren't about to start selling advertising on their AI tool.

I'd assume the reason they have auth is so they don't get botted and it absolutely bricks their servers.

[Kiro]

For the vast majority of sites with Google login it is indeed worthless. I implement it because I want to give people an easy login option and because customers want it. I couldn't care less about your personal info.

[mnau]

Just make a new Google account. It's not like you have to fill correct info and you can make two accounts with same phone number (at least I could ~1 year ago).

[drusepth]

Technically, they also demand you have a computer, internet access, and enough education to be able to read. I'd also still call it "free" though.

[Salgat]

You're welcome to make a throwaway gmail account if you want "truly free". And don't try to argue that your time still has value, because then that means nothing is truly free.

[syntaxing]

Or you can use the free and open source addon from Hugginface themselves and runs locally… https://github.com/huggingface/meshgen

[porphyra]

Yeah but a finished textured model is quite different from a low-poly untextured model even though the llama meshgen approach is quite interesting and promising.

[GrantMoyer]

Is BlenderGPT really a registered trademark?

Surely it infringes on Blender's (unregistered) trademark, but maybe the registration process only reviews exisiting registered marks, and it'd be up to the Blender Foundation to challenge the use of BlenderGPT. On the other hand, the USPTO trademark search didn't turn up any relevant results for BlenderGPT even though the terms of service on the site seem to indicate a US based company.

[TheRealPomax]

"Unregistered"? Blender is a registered trademark in both the US and the EU. Their brand guideline page explicitly calls out that you are not allowed to use their name in your own product: https://www.blender.org/about/logo/#trademark

[JustBreath]

At some point Scribblenauts 3D is going to be one hell of a game.

[ilaksh]

Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it.

I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender

Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.

[CivBase]

Very cool, but I don't think I understand the pricing.

$20/mo gets me 50 credits/mo, but I can buy 50 credits at any time for just $10? Sounds like the subscription is asking me to pay double for the same number of credits.

[bee_rider]

That’s pretty slick. I wonder if this sort of thing, generating a 3D model, could be a better way toward persistent worlds, than the models trained on games.

I wonder how well typical render farm could run a model like this.

[gregjw]

Subway Surfers while you wait. Oh boy.

[m3kw9]

I thought it was a demo, but when I put in a prompt, it popped up with a hand asking for money first. I’m not paying without trying it out first.

[EA]

It generates a mobius strip that looks like a pill.

[JKCalhoun]

Three free images seems to be the limit. Using a photo as the prompt did not seem to work for me.

[doener]

"I am quite suspicious of this project. In particular I want to draw attention to the nonsensical naming scheme (this is clearly not related to anything to do with GPT) suggestive of lack of understanding of the relevant technology, an absence of a usable demo, and the fact that they show the same small handful of models over and over again. The input images do not appear natural at all - almost as though he’s just taken the 3d models he’s supposed to be „generating“ and rendered them in Blender. The quality of the models and the resulting PBR textures are extremely high, with no noticeable imperfections whatsoever. This is not impossible… but all of these things combined lead me to be very sceptical of this service. I will believe it when I see it!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1gk8x5j/blende...

[jarmitage]

Same/different to https://github.com/gd3kr/BlenderGPT ?