3D Figurine AI: Watch Yourself Become a Desk Figurine

What happens in the video

The preview opens on a city street, where a man in a plain white T-shirt faces the camera. He turns until his back is to the lens while thin vertical lines of light sweep across him like a body scan. The street gives way to a desk, and a monitor behind him shows a gray 3D model of him in modeling software. He turns to the front again, and in the last frames he stands as a small figurine on a clear round base in front of a keyboard, now in black trousers and sneakers, with a box printed with his picture beside him.

The 3D figurine AI trend, now as a video

The 3D figurine trend began as still pictures. People gave an AI image model a selfie, most famously Google's Gemini model nicknamed Nano Banana, plus a long prompt asking for a collectible figure on a computer desk, its 3D model on the monitor and a toy box printed with the original photo. The 3D Figurine Factor template stages that same desk scene as a short video, so the scan and the modeling step play out before the figure appears. You bring the photo and the template brings the instructions, so there is nothing to copy and paste.

How to make it with Ginly AI

1. Download Ginly AI for iPhone, iPad or Android and tap Continue as Guest if you would rather not sign up.
2. On the Effects tab, open the Transformation Effects category and tap 3D Figurine Factor.
3. Choose a photo that shows you from head to knees or lower, crop it around your body and tap Generate.
4. Credits are deducted and your figurine clip appears in the Library; once it is finished, save the MP4 to your gallery or post it from the share sheet.

Tips for the best result

• Show as much of yourself as you can: the clip ends on a full-length figure, so a head-and-shoulders selfie leaves the AI to invent your legs and shoes.
• Stand straight, face the camera and let your arms hang relaxed, the same pose the finished figure holds on its clear base in the preview.
• Wear something with clear colors and shapes, like a plain T-shirt or a jacket, because your outfit turns into the figure's paint job.
• Mirrored selfie? Use the mirror-flip when you add the photo, so the figure wears your hair parting on the side people know.
• Crop out anyone else: the desk scene has one clear base and one box, made for a single figure.

Ideas to try

• Turn a graduation photo or a first-day-at-work picture into a collectible figure, a small keepsake clip for your story.
• Start a tiny-you series: post the figurine first, follow it with mini me AI, where giant fingers dangle you above a stage, and save the AI snow globe for December.
• Cosplayers can give a finished costume photo the collector's-edition treatment; if the cosplayer is a friend, ask before using their photo and label the clip as AI when you post it.

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