Sketch to Rendering in Seconds?

AI is revolutionizing industrial design workflows by making it possible to generate a realistic rendering from a simple sketch simply by uploading an image and typing in a prompt. Here is one example. I took an old concept sketch from my archives and tried out this method using Google Gemini (also known as Nano banana). For extremely organic forms, this can cut hours off a project if the intent is to generate a concept rendering. Actually modeling these kinds of shapes in a 3D modeling program can be extremely time consuming. This sketch to rendering to animation took less than hour total. Shout out to my friend Bora Turkoglu for inspiring this post.