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Looking for the best AI tool to create 3D game assets? In this video, I use Meshy 7.1 to go from a 2D image to a remeshed, auto-rigged 3D model in minutes, then test which AI can animate it best in Blender.
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What Meshy can do:
✅ Text to 3D model
✅ Image to 3D model (JPG/PNG → OBJ/GLB)
✅ AI texture generator with sculpting-level quality
✅ Works with Blender and Unreal Engine
Best AI tool for:
• 3D game asset creation
• AI texture generation
• converting 2D images to 3D models
Which AI model can animate a rigged 3D dragon and centaur better: Kimi K3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemini 4 Argon? I generated the dragon and centaur images in Meshy and turned them into 3D models with Meshy 7.1 image to 3D (I picked High Detail over Smart Topology, the game-ready option), remeshed them to lower the poly count, auto-rigged them with Smart Rig and exported them as GLB files. The centaur’s front legs weren’t rigged on the first try, so I left it that way to see how each model handles the missing rig.
Then I generated seven reference animations with Seedance 2.5 through Higgsfield (front and side view in one video) and gave all three AIs the same prompt, the GLB files and the reference videos: finish the centaur’s rig, then animate the dragon walking, hovering, flying with wing flaps and breathing fire, and the centaur walking, running, and running while firing a bow and arrow.
Settings: Claude Opus 5.5 on extra high reasoning, Kimi K3.1 Pro on max reasoning with the Swarm feature, Gemini 4 Argon on high.
Work time (my estimates): Gemini 4 Argon about 44 minutes, Kimi K3.1 Pro about 4 hours 13 minutes, Claude Opus 5.5 about 5 hours 50 minutes.
Processed tokens (including cached tokens): Gemini about 13.3 million, Kimi about 238.5 million, Opus about 1.5 billion.
Estimated API cost: Gemini $5.78, Kimi $75.67, Opus $677 — API-price estimates, not invoices.
Next video: how well they can rig and animate a human face.
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Chapters
0:00 Who can animate these rigged 3D models better? Making them in Meshy
0:27 Meshy image to 3D: Smart Topology vs High Detail (Meshy 7.1)
0:57 Meshy remesh
1:15 Meshy auto rig (Smart Rig) for the dragon and centaur
1:55 Making the reference videos with Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield + the prompt
2:40 Results: dragon walking
3:19 Dragon hovering
3:50 Dragon wing flaps
4:01 Dragon breathing fire
4:23 Centaur walking
4:53 Centaur running
5:06 Centaur running and firing a bow
5:41 Settings, time, tokens and API cost
6:33 Next video + Meshy 60% off with code THEA02
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carbon would do better ? lets see when released
comments are talking abt gemini results they forgot how much kimi worst to be in this vedio
You win, because you clearly don't have eyes that can see.
Gemini is really bad come on
Gemini looked horible on the dragon walk what do you mean hahaha
Sorry but Gemini's results were terrible. Weightless and anatomy-defying
One should note that the Claude $200 subscription gives you around $7000 worth of api credits per month
When you factor in the cost Gemini is clearly the winner across the board. If you give it more time and more money it will beat opus 5.5. opus took half a working day to get it done. Think of it in terms of an employee paying this over qualified dude to do something. He does what you ask but takes for ever where as the other employee is faster and cheaper and with a second ask you can get similar or even better results. Gemini is better
Honestly.
I would love to see this Kimi K3.1 against Kimi 3 at this point 😂
I feel like if K3 could do better with some of these tasks xD
Also in Gemini's dragon walk. The front were also human like movement
Opus 5.5 is something else, Kimi is a huge disappointment, thanks for making this. Could you do this with the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017? It's just a flash model, but an amazing one, and the 1017 version makes it quite good at 3D modeling. Also, maybe as an even better setup, make Opus 5.5 the planner, DS 4.1 the coder, and then have Opus review it again. If needed, it sends it back for fixing, if DS isn't able to fix it, Opus fixes it instead. Price (and time) comparisons in these cases would be super interesting.
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