DES 213
Digital Tools in 3D Design
USC Roski School of Art & Design
Fall 2025
Harris Hall, Room 112D
Tuesday 12:00 – 2:40 PM
Instructor: Breanna Browning
Office Hrs: By appointment
Email: breanna.browning@usc.edu
DES 213
Digital Tools in 3D Design
USC Roski School of Art & Design
Fall 2025
Harris Hall, Room 112D
Tuesday 12:00 – 2:40 PM
Instructor: Breanna Browning
Office Hrs: By appointment
Email: breanna.browning@usc.edu
I will continue to update and add to this page as the semester progresses. Check back for new links.
- Blender: download version XX.XX
- Rhino 8: download 90 day evaluation for free, or purchase the student version
- More to come...
- ChatGPT
- Anthropic Claude
- Google Gemini
- More advnaced generation OpenAI Playground
- Guide for Prompt Engineering
- Guide for Prompt Engineering from OpenAI directly
- ChatGPT - automatically runs Dall-e + others
- Midjourney - use via Discord or WebUI (see the Midjouney prompting guide)
- Dall-e-2 (older)
- Gemini
- Meta AI
- Dream Studio by Stablility.ai
- Adobe Firefly - best if you have a reference photo
- UI for running Stable Diffusion
- Runway.ml - branching out, many tools now
- More to come + updates soon...
- Classic Automatic 1111 Stability on Github and Install guide (older tool now, but fun to play with if you’re proficient in the simple UI image generations)
- For advnaced image (and video) generation - ComfyUI - SOTA tool as of Sept 2024
- For ComfyUI manager you’ll need: https://git-scm.com/download/win and https://github.com/ltdrdata/ComfyUI-Manager?tab=readme-ov-file
- oldie but goodie - TensorFlow Deep Dream collab notebook
- Quixel / Bridge / Megascans - 3d library with plugin for Maya including plants
- Textures.com - textures library
- Turbosquid - free 3d models
- Free 3d - free 3d models
- PolyHaven - HDRI’s, textures, some models
- SketchUp 3d Warehouse - built for Sketchup, most can be repurposed
- Ultimaker’s Thingiverse - geard towards 3d printable models, but many available
- MyMiniFactory - also geared towards 3d printing
- BlendSwap - Blender model share community
- SketchFab - general 3d library, some free and some paid
- Kitbash 3d - expensive, pro-quality kitbashable models
- Artstation Marketplace - lots of assets of varying quality
- PureRef - super clean platform for collecting reference images (not collaborative)
- More to come...