[telchior]

What / who is the leading edge of 3D AI? I took a look into it last year and the best tools were still a very long away from producing usable results (couldn't keep tri count under control, spiderweb rigging, shape jank, etc).

[whstl]

I don't care much for Generative AI (still too early) but I had some ok experiences with Tripo for retopology and auto rigging.

Still super early days though, I did have some of the same issues you had.

[telchior]

Thanks, I checked out Tripo. It produced some absolutely laughable trees for me, but a pretty decent looking barstool. Refused to rig it for me for some reason, though.

I'd say it'll take them some years to finish figuring out 3D, it's a good stretch beyond 2D image generation.