3D data prep is hard. But ordering a pizza is easy. Through an automated toolchain, RapidPipeline makes 3D data prep as easy as ordering a pizza - helping artists prepare 3D content, at massive scale. Deep tech battle-tested on more than 4 million 3D models.
First of all, many thanks @albn for hunting our product! We are big fans of Sketchfab, so it’s a true honor 🙏
1) WHAT IS THIS ABOUT?
📢 3D artists out there – I guess you might know this problem:
• You have some amazing 3D models and want them ready for different apps and devices
• All your use cases have their very own requirements (on mesh resolution, textures, supported material model, draw calls, supported file formats, and so on)
• You end up spending days on re-formatting, optimizing, and translating your 3D content… and then there are tight deadlines to meet, which doesn’t make it better!
❗We hear you: 3D data prep is hard, and it takes 3D artists so much of their precious time.
Working on many 3D R&D projects together, Miguel, Julian, Felix faced exactly the same problems, until we asked ourselves one day:
🤔 What if there was a system from which you could simply order just the right downstream versions for all the 3D models in your database or catalog?
2) HOW DID WE GET THERE?
💡 Making the whole area of 3D data prep as easy as ordering pizza (a type of food that saved our lives a few times when being up late and crunching towards the next deadline :), the system would enable 3D artists to
• save precious time and focus their attention on more fulfilling tasks,
• create their custom workflow recipes where desired (customizing settings for remeshing, texture encoding, atlas baking, and so on), and
• get every 3D project delivered, reliably, on time, and in budget – enabling their organizations to successfully use 3D at scale!
⚙️ We ended up doing did a lot of research to build the technology needed to make this vision a reality (I even ended up doing my PhD on it), founded our own company, and quickly found enterprise partners that helped us battle-test our solution, on several million 3D models. This helped our technology (originally called “RapidCompact”) to get more mature by the day.
Now, we are incredibly excited to finally take it to the next level, making it easily available to everyone:
3) 🎉 SAY HELLO TO RAPIDPIPELINE! 🎉
Introducing:
✅ an easy -to-use SaaS interface, along with a REST API and on-prem batch processing tools
✅ subscription plans for individuals and SMBs, letting everyone leverage our automation pipeline for 3D data prep as part of their own projects – no matter what scale they might be!
✅ visual feedback, auto-generated summaries and QA scores for each output model, making it easy to see how close it still is compared to the original source, and
✅ intuitive workflow controls with “basic”, “advanced” and “expert” settings – making our tool easy to pick up for first-day users, while giving more experienced users full control over their workflows.
The team and I are super excited about this launch, and we can’t wait to see what people will build on top of RapidPipeline, and which opportunities it will unlock across the industry – in 3D Commerce, including various verticals such as furniture, household items and apparel, but possibly also in many other areas… and we are much looking forward to your support and feedback! 😊
