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Creating Your Personal 3D AI Sculpture: A New Fad Explored

In the past month, the 3D Figurine Trend has soared in popularity on TikTok, racking up an impressive 66K+ Google searches and solidifying its position as one of the platform's hottest AI effects.

Mastering the Latest AI-Generated 3D Statue Fad
Mastering the Latest AI-Generated 3D Statue Fad

Creating Your Personal 3D AI Sculpture: A New Fad Explored

In the world of viral trends, the AI 3D Figurine Trend has taken social media by storm, transforming people, pets, and even objects into photo-realistic miniature figurines. Here's a simple guide on how to create your own AI 3D Figurine using Kapwing.

First, let's write an AI prompt that specifies the figurine's size, style, and environment. For instance, "Generate a 1/7 scale realistic collectible figurine of the subject in the provided photo. The figurine should resemble the subject's outfit, hairstyle, accessories, and facial features. Place the figurine on a desk in front of a plain background. Do not crop the body or distort the proportions."

Next, navigate to Kapwing.com. In the Generate page, switch to the Images tab. Upload your reference photo using the Add Image button. For a good reference image, full-body images work best, prioritise high resolution and good lighting, and avoid photos with poor poses.

In Kapwing's AI generation hub, for best results, select the Seedream 4 or Kapwing I1 model in the toggle at the bottom left of the chat box. If you're not satisfied with your first result, regenerate or tweak your prompt for clarity.

The trend's realism is what sets it apart, as it relies on the accuracy of the AI generator in capturing details from the reference photo. The quality of the figurine starts with the quality of the source image. A poor-quality reference image often leads to figurines that look disproportionate, distorted, or unrecognizable.

Once you're happy with your creation, you can download your AI figurine directly or save it to a Kapwing project for additional edits. If you're feeling creative, you can even animate your figurine image using AI video tools like OpenArt's image-to-video feature, creating "unboxing" or "rotation" effects.

Pet figurines have gone viral too. Just make sure your reference photo is clear and specify in your prompt that it's an animal figurine. Tools like Kapwing and Seedream offer free tiers, though there may be limits on resolution, exports, or watermarks. Paid plans unlock higher quality outputs and faster processing.

The AI 3D Figurine Trend, known as the Nano Banana Character Figure, emerged in 2025 through Google Gemini's Nano Banana AI model, which specializes in creating consistent, hyper-realistic 3D-like collectible figures from photos or drawings, blending meme culture, AI artistry, and toy design. Popular tools to replicate this trend include the Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model (Nano Banana), Google AI Studio, and TripO3D, with additional video animation supported by Grok AI and other platforms.

Finally, share your creation on TikTok with trending audio and hashtags like #aitrend, #3dfigure, #aieffects, and #figurinetrend. Let your imagination run wild and join the AI 3D Figurine Trend today!

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