Kaedim

What is Kaedim?

Kaedim takes a single 2D concept image and converts it into a 3D model you can actually use in a game or animation project. Instead of asking you to sculpt from scratch, it generates a model that respects the art style of your concept, including color and detail hints, so the result fits straight into your pipeline.

The company is a Y Combinator backed startup founded by Konstantina Psoma, aimed squarely at game studios. Artists use it to turn character and prop concepts into base meshes in minutes, which frees them from the slowest part of production: blocking out geometry by hand.

Key Features

• 2D concept art to 3D model conversion in minutes
• Game-ready output with clean topology and PBR materials
• Style-aware generation that follows your concept art
• A browser-based editor for tweaking and exporting results
• Batch generation workflows for teams
• Integration-friendly exports for Unity, Unreal and Blender
• Trained on stylized game assets rather than photoreal scans

How to get started

Start by uploading a clear concept drawing, ideally a front-facing view of the character or prop you want. Kaedim then generates a 3D model and gives you an editor to rotate, inspect and refine it before export.

From there you can request adjustments, regenerate parts, or send the result to your favourite 3D tool for final cleanup. The whole flow is designed to fit inside an existing game art pipeline rather than replace the artists in it.

• Sign up and start a free trial
• Upload your 2D concept art
• Wait for the model to generate, usually a few minutes
• Inspect and refine the result in the browser editor
• Export and import into your engine or DCC tool

Use cases

• Turning character concepts into base meshes for games
• Generating props and weapons from 2D concept sheets
• Speeding up pre-production and pitch prototypes
• Building stylized asset libraries for indie studios
• Providing reference models for hand-sculpted final assets

Pricing and licensing

Kaedim is sold as a subscription service for studios and individual artists, with a free trial so you can test the output quality on your own art before committing. Higher tiers add more generations per month, faster processing and team management features.

The pricing page on the official website has the current numbers, since plans change as the service matures. If you only need a handful of models occasionally, the trial plus a small plan is usually enough to judge the fit.

Pros and cons

Kaedim's big win is turnaround time. A concept that would take an artist a day to block out can become a usable base mesh in minutes, and the output is specifically tuned for the stylized look most games want.

On the downside, quality depends heavily on the input art: murky or complex concepts produce weaker results, and generated models almost always need a human pass before they are final. It is a force multiplier for artists, not a replacement for them.

Alternatives

• CSM: image-to-3D pipeline with a developer API
• Meshy: quick text-to-3D and image-to-3D generation
• Sloyd: parametric templates you can tweak live
• TRELLIS: Microsoft's open-source image-to-3D model
• Hunyuan3D: Tencent's open-source 3D generation models