Chibi Figure turns a photo into a printable object, right in the painter. Give it a photo of a person and it draws a chibi concept — big head, small body, the likeness carried by whatever makes the person recognizable. If you like the sketch, it sculpts the actual 3D figure and drops it onto the canvas as a normal model.
The figure arrives in a single color on purpose. The likeness is in the geometry, and the colors are yours to pick as real filaments. Print it as-is for a statue look, or paint it in Layerpaint and print it in full color.
The concept takes about fifteen seconds; the build takes about two minutes. Both run in the cloud — everything after that is the normal in-browser flow.
- A figure of you, or someone you know — desk trophy, gift, band merch for a band of one.
- You can't sculpt and don't want to commission — a custom figure without the sculptor's queue.
- You want a personal model to paint — the figure lands ready for Magic Fill, the brush, or AI Paint.
- Open Chibi Figure in the left rail of the painter.
- Add a photo. One person, facing the camera, decent light. Distinctive things survive the translation — beard, glasses, the guitar in their hands — so a photo with character beats a passport shot.
- Review the concept. A chibi sketch of the photo comes back in about fifteen seconds. This is the approve gate: nothing gets built until you say so. Not right? Try another photo — a new concept is 1 credit and the button says so.
- Build it. Click Build the figure and give it about two minutes. Keep painting something else or close the tab; the build picks back up when you return.
- Print or paint. The figure lands upright and repaired. Export straight away for a one-color print, or paint it first — then export a Standard 3MF for Bambu Studio, Orca or Prusa.
Your first figure is free end to end. After that a concept is 1 credit and a build is 3 — the same credits AI Paint and AI Create use.
The photo is sent to a third-party AI service to sculpt the figure, and Layerpaint doesn't keep a copy. Use photos you have the rights to — the safety filter rejects recognizable public figures, and a rejected photo puts the credit back on your balance.
- Judge the concept like it's the print. The sketch is what the figure will look like. If the likeness is off, fix it at the photo stage, not after the build.
- Props are worth including. A guitar, a coffee mug, a controller — the thing someone holds reads as identity on a figure.
- Paint from the same photo. Hand the figure to AI Paint with the original photo as the reference and the colors come back matched to the person.
- The mesh is dense and that's fine. Export runs the Simplify pass automatically, so the file slices like any other model while you keep the detail on screen.