You may have noticed something since GPT-6 Astra launched... I can't stop making games and building things in 3D. 😂 I think I've accidentally discovered a new obsession. And honestly, I haven't felt this excited about learning a new creative medium since I discovered Midjourney back in 2022. Every... day it's the same: "What if I try this?" "What if I connect that?" "Wait... can it build THIS?" And suddenly another world exists. This time, one little question led me somewhere completely new: What if Capychan had her own juice shop? 🍍🥤 Meet CAPY JUICE. Let me show you how I built it. 🧵👇show more

Part 2️⃣ - FROM CHARACTER TO 3D WORLD It started with a simple experiment: Could I take one image of Capychan and turn her into a real 3D character? So I dropped one reference into Aholo Lux3D from @ManycoreTech and tried Standard mode. A few moments later, I could rotate her. See her from behind. Look at details that had never existed in the original image. That alone was already fun. But of course, my brain immediately went: “Okay... what else can I build?” 😂 So I brought GPT-6 Astra and Blender into the experiment and started playing with a bigger idea: What if I didn't stop at the character? What if I built an entire little world around her? And that's how CAPY JUICE really started. 🍍🥤

Part 3️⃣ - THEN I CONNECTED EVERYTHING This is where things got really interesting. I connected the official Lux3D Skill to GPT-6 Astra and linked my local Blender session. Then I tried something almost embarrassingly simple: I just kept talking. “I need this.” “Generate one of these.” “Try this version.” “Put it over there.” “Now check the scene.” And Astra could keep the process moving. It could understand what I was trying to build, figure out which 3D assets were missing, use Aholo Lux3D to generate them, review the results, and continue working with the scene in Blender. Meanwhile, I stayed in the conversation. That was the part I loved. I wasn't thinking: “Which tool do I need to open next?” I was thinking: “What should CAPY JUICE have next?” 🍍🥤 And then I’d just ask for it.

Part 4️⃣ - NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS THE SAME TREATMENT As CAPY JUICE started filling up, I realized something pretty quickly: Not every object deserves the same amount of time. For something people would actually stop and look at, I wanted more detail. So for this vending machine, I used Aholo Lux3D Standard. It took 5m 33s, but I wanted the geometry, materials and little details to hold up. Then I looked around the shop and thought: “Okay... I still need a LOT of stuff.” 😅 Small props. Background objects. All those little things that make an empty 3D scene start feeling like a real place. That’s where I switched to Turbo. I generated six different assets, and each one finished in roughly 59–82 seconds. And that became my little rule while building: More detail where people will look. More speed everywhere else. Standard for the stars. Turbo for filling the world around them. And little by little, the empty shop stopped looking empty. 🍍🥤

Part 5️⃣ - FROM CHARACTER TO WORLD 🍍🥤 And somehow, one little Capychan reference became all of this. A 3D character. Then an asset. Then another. Then a shop. And eventually... a little world she could actually belong to. GPT-6 Astra + Aholo Lux3D + Blender gave me a completely new playground to explore, and I think you can probably tell by how much I’ve written about it. 😂 Sorry for the long thread. I’m just ridiculously excited about this new phase. Right now, I want to try EVERYTHING. Every tool. Every model. Every weird workflow I can connect together. I want to push all these engines, see what each one does differently, break things, learn from them, connect things that weren’t meant to be connected... and most of all, create every crazy little idea that passes through my head. Games. Characters. 3D worlds. Whatever comes next. It honestly reminds me of how I felt when I discovered Midjourney in 2022. That feeling of: “Wait... what else is possible?” I missed that feeling. And right now, I have it again. ❤️ So yes... CAPY JUICE is finished. My experiments definitely are not. 🍍🥤

Want to try this workflow? The official Lux3D plugin is now live on the Lux3D website and ready to use. 👇 #AholoLux3D #Lux3D #GPT6 #Astra #3D

The pineapple on the capybara hood 😭🍍 Love seeing what you built with Lux3D + GPT-6, Marcio! What’s next for these two—a whole café?

Maybe the next game is Capy Juice, running a peaceful little juice café and serving customers all day. 🍍😂 Of course, this is Capychan, so “peaceful” probably lasts about five minutes. The watermelon blaster is already loaded and ready for anyone who tries to invade the café. 🍉🔫 Serve juice by day. Defend the shop by night. I think we just accidentally invented another game. 😂🎮

So cute 🥰

That excitement of "wait, can it build THIS?" is exactly how new obsessions start. Capy Juice sounds perfect for her — a chill capybara running a pineapple juice shop just fits.

I honestly didn’t realize how much I’d created in just one week until I looked back at everything. 😂 Thanks to GPT-6 Astra, the ideas just won’t stop coming. It genuinely feels like someone removed the barrier between imagination and creation. There’s something magical about it. ✨ Thanks @OpenAI 🦾🤖🫶

That awesome 👏

Thank you!

❤️

3D asset pipelines are where the real leverage sits now.

Haha or maybe your obsession intentionally discovered you? SO luvin this, what an incredibly exciting and awesome adventure!

A new creative medium is the best kind of obsession.

Looks so cute!