Tool overview
Overview
NVIDIA Omniverse AI Animal Explorer Extension is an AI-powered tool for rapidly prototyping high-quality 3D animal meshes directly inside the Omniverse ecosystem. Designed for creators, game developers, animators, and visualization teams, it combines generative AI with physically based workflows so you can explore a wide variety of animal shapes, proportions, and silhouettes in minutes instead of hours. Integrated into Omniverse, AI Animal Explorer lets you start from intelligent AI suggestions, adjust parameters, and iterate interactively in a fully 3D, real-time environment. It helps you quickly block out stylized or realistic creature concepts that are ready for downstream refinement in DCC apps and Omniverse-based pipelines. You can use it to experiment with different body types, variations, and species-inspired designs while preserving consistent topology for easier rigging and deformation. The extension is ideal for early-stage concepting, rapid look-dev, previsualization, and building asset libraries for games, film, simulation, and education. By automating repetitive mesh exploration tasks, it frees artists to focus on creative direction instead of manual modeling. As part of the Omniverse platform, AI Animal Explorer benefits from GPU-accelerated performance, USD-based workflows, and compatibility with other Omniverse extensions, enabling teams to collaborate on creature design in a shared, real-time 3D environment.