Buddy Creaturesby Otway Data Workshop

Children's drawings, made into real 3D printed creatures

Imagination, printed.

A child draws it. AI helps shape it. A 3D printer makes it real. Bring Buddy Creatures to your school, or make one at home.

A classroom table covered in painted 3D-printed creatures: dinosaurs, winged horses, pink puppies and rainbow long-necks.
Creatures from the first class through the program, 2026
  1. 1 · Imagine
  2. 2 · Direct
  3. 3 · Understand
  4. 4 · Make
  5. 5 · Give

AI and 3D printing incursion

For schools

A first, hands-on lesson in directing AI for Grade 6 and Prep buddies. One ODW visit, everything supplied.

See the programFrom $1,000 per class
A pencil drawing of a penguin with a star for a head.The same penguin as a solid grey creature.The penguin 3D printed.

For home and gifts

Make your own

Upload a drawing, see the creature in under a minute, and we'll print it and post it to you, ready to paint.

Upload a drawingFrom $49, postage included

Drawn by children. Shaped with AI. Printed in Apollo Bay.

Two chameleon-like creatures with curled tails and knobbly crowns, one striped red and green, one teal.
Two green T-rex creatures with big red eyes and white teeth.
A pink puppy creature with green floppy ears and a leafy tuft on its head.
Two long-necked creatures painted in rainbow bands of red, yellow, green and blue.
A yellow spotted stegosaurus-like creature with black spikes and legs.