Top 10 Best AI Tools for 3D Artists in 2025

Top 10 Best AI Tools for 3D Artists in 2025 - In this article, I will reveal the top 10 best AI tools for 3D artists that can help improve and simplify your arch viz work! Well, let’s go to the list.

1. Magnific AI

The first tool - is Magnific AI which is an online AI upscaler that can upscale your images up to 16 times. This tool is very easy to use, you control just a few sliders. By using it, you can have the best of both worlds - creative control over your image and photorealistic AI improvement in areas where 3D is not so great, like natural elements or 3D people. 

This tool is not cheap, it starts at $39 per month + tax. It says it can make around 200 normal upscales and 100 large ones per month, but I get only 58 upscales out of it and I think I haven’t even used 8 and 16 times at all. Still, I think it is worth the money if you do images professionally. 

2. Krea AI

Krea is an alternative to Magnific which has a free plan. It works similarly however the results are way worse on the free plan. In the free version, you are limited to 2K upscaling, meaning your output image will be only 2048 pixels on a larger side. 

You need to upgrade to be able to get higher resolutions, which makes a free plan kind of useless. I haven’t tried the paid version, because I did not like the result I got for free. 

I am not sure if the paid version will generate a better quality. I added Krea to my list for those of you who are on a budget and are looking for free tools to use. 

3. Stable Diffusion

It is a deep learning, text-to-image model based on diffusion techniques. Unlike the first 2 tools, it is totally free and runs locally on your PC, and calculates the images by your GPU. The better graphic card you have the faster the results. 

Here we have way more control over the generated image, with all the available controls as well as using the prompts. Similarly to the Magnific, I use it to improve my renders, but I don’t use it to do upscaling. 

4. Photoshop Generative Fill

This tool is super easy to use and it’s integrated directly inside Photoshop. You just select the area, type what you need, and wait a bit for the result. I use it the most often to expand images, it’s a huge lifesaver. 

There are many other ways to use it like adding or removing objects, adding reflections, replacing skies, adding shadows, improving on 3D People, or changing Clothing for example. 

5. Midjourney

Midjourney has come a long way. The results are way more realistic but also now, we can use the website instead of Discord to generate images which I found way more effective and user-friendly. We can now set parameters just with the use of the sliders or choosing the option. 

What is the most impressive though, is an Editor tool where we can remove some parts of the image and generate new things in that place. Let’s imagine that you like the general feel of the image but don’t like the building or material on it, it’s not a problem. With the use of an Editor, the task is simple and gives you a whole new level of generating experience. 

You can take the image you like, and build on that. You don’t have to endlessly generate images till you find the one that matches your idea. It speeds up the process a lot. 

Midjourney is a perfect tool for looking for inspiration, concept development, creating mood boards, and testing ideas. The subscriptions start from $10 per month and you can generate around 200 images per month but if you need to generate many images then you probably have to go with more expensive plans. 

6. Ideogram

Ideogram is another image generation tool from textual descriptions. What is cool here, they have a Free Plan too however it has limited options. If you want to have all the options, you need to go with the Plus Plan which is $20 per month. 

It’s a perfect tool for generating various sorts of graphics but we can use it for generating architectural visuals too. And the results are very good! The interesting option here is Image Editor. We can paint over the image to instruct the tool where specific objects should be generated. 

Ideogram has an option to set the color palettes, I found it doesn't work too great with realistic-style images but it’s perfect for graphic design for instance. Another option is that we can upload or draw a simple sketch and use it as a reference for the composition. 

Even though Midjourney is more oriented toward generating high-quality, artistic, or photorealistic architectural images, in my opinion, we can successfully use Ideogram for the same purpose, but also for enhancing arch viz presentations with strong graphic design accents. 

7. Topaz Labs

Topaz is a software that can do upscaling and frame interpolation of video footage, it’s great to save a ton of time and money when doing architectural animations. With upscaling you are able to for example render FullHD footage and upscale it to 4K. 

If we render FullHD instead of 4K, we speed up rendering 4 times. Using frame interpolation we can render every nth frame, and Topaz will create missing frames based on the rendered images. 

Here is the math: Let’s assume you are using a render farm and will use 4x interpolation on average across the project + 2x upscaling. Your bill will be just 1/16 or 6.25% of what it would be if you render all the frames in the final resolution. 

8. Runway

Runway is a tool that generates and edits videos and images to produce video outputs. We can generate videos from text prompts and it will create it from scratch. It will require lots of testing and back and forward movement but still, we can use it to create general videos like close-up shots of some natural elements. 

Another option that will be more useful for arch-viz is generating videos from images. So we just have to upload the image, instruct the tool with the text prompt, and that’s basically it. We can get an animated version of our visualization in no time! The results are impressive, even though it doesn’t work great with people yet. 

But I can imagine it will greatly improve in the future. But it not only animates the existing area of the image, it can also add more context to it. Of course, it’s not ideal with the building as it doesn't generate based on the actual architectural drawings but still, we can use it successfully in many cases. 

Even just to help the client to see what it may look like. Way easier and more convincing than animating a camera in 3D, and creating simple previews, isn’t it? They have a Free Plan, so if you want to test it, you can generate 3 video projects. Depending on your needs, you can choose from different paid plans, the prices start at $15 per month. 

9. Sora Video

Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative videos from text instructions. This tool is created by OpenAI - chatGPT creators. The shown results are looking promising and I think it will be a great tool to use for animations.

10. Adobe Firefly & Premier Pro Generative AI

Firefly models are used for Generative fill in Photoshop and now they have introduced video AI too. What makes this tool better than Sora is the integration with Premier Pro software. 

It’s the same logic as Generative Fill in Photoshop but with the video. You will be able to extend the length of you clips and add, remove, or replace objects or add entirely new clips without leaving the software.

Also, you will be able to use other models inside Premier Pro, for example, Open AI’s Sora to Runway directly inside Adobe’s software. It sounds amazing, but as the controversy with rights to the images shown, you have to be careful with Adobe.