Kern describes a blueprint workflow for building 3D robot animals with Claude

Kern says that asking Claude to build a robot cat from a single picture produced a toy-like model after eight rounds.

He reports that switching to four flat orthographic drawings fixed the problem: an open 3D model built the body, and Claude handled the plates, details, rigging and rendering. Kern says the result was a 471-plate robot cat. His article covers the full pipeline, the prompts he used, costs and mistakes, and is published on X.