Turn a map into a game world or a product photo into an exploded view. Create from text, combine visual references, and refine the result in MiniMax Design.
H3 Image is MiniMax’s open-weight model for generating and editing still images. Start with a written brief, or give it references for a subject, a visual style, and a layout. A game artist can turn a map into a scene from the player’s viewpoint. A catalog designer can place a collection of products in the same room.
Bring separate references into one composition, turn a detailed brief into a clear visual, and explore how the same idea looks in different styles. For more demanding edits, guide how objects, viewpoints, and reflections relate to one another.
Give each reference a role. H3 Image can use one image for the subject, another for the color palette, and a third for the layout. Combine up to 16 references to bring products, characters, or environments into one composition.
Create with References
H3 Image follows detailed briefs that specify what to show, how elements relate, and where each detail belongs. It can carry those instructions through a composition, from the sequence of panels to the labels that explain them.
Visualize Your Brief
H3 Image turns a creative idea into concept art with a distinct point of view. Explore how the same character or setting feels as cinematic game art, a surreal fashion photograph, or a classical oil painting before you choose a direction.
Explore Your Style
A small edit can affect several parts of a scene. H3 Image uses spatial references to work through changes in viewpoint, object placement, and reflections. Move an object between two mirrors, for example, and guide how it appears in each reflection while keeping the camera and room layout fixed.
Refine Your SceneCheck how many references you can bring, which canvas sizes fit your brief, and how to export the result.
reference images
≤64 MiB per imageUp to 32,000 characters
Images per generation
Explore eight ways to create with H3 Image, from game key art and character design to technical illustration and packaging.
Introduce a game’s world in a single image. Bring character, setting, and atmosphere together for cover art, store banners, and launch campaigns.
Define a character’s silhouette, proportions, and personality. Bring turnarounds, expressions, and color studies into one reference sheet for games, animation, or brand mascots.
Design creatures that feel at home in imagined worlds. Explore how anatomy, movement, and surface details suggest where a species lives and how it behaves.
Explore ideas for products, vehicles, and machines. Use sketches and multiple views to compare shapes, refine proportions, and choose a design direction.
Show how a product fits together and how it works. Use exploded views, cutaways, and labeled diagrams to make complex structures easier to explain.
Develop artwork for book covers, card decks, and art prints. Explore how linework, color, texture, and recurring motifs give an illustrated series a recognizable style.
Give an abstract idea a photographic form. Experiment with scale, styling, and unexpected juxtapositions to develop editorial concepts, fashion stories, and campaign imagery.
Build a visual identity across a product line. Explore how typography, color, and graphics distinguish individual products while keeping the brand recognizable on the shelf.
Set the brief, add your references, and refine your image in three steps.
Open MiniMax Design and create a project. Describe the image you want in the project chat, including its subject, camera angle, and intended use.
MiniMax H3 Image is MiniMax's open-weight model for image generation and editing. It follows detailed instructions closely and turns ideas into characters, scenes, and visual atmospheres. You can create from a text description or edit with reference images, all in MiniMax Design.
Yes. H3 Image is released with open weights, so developers can download and run it on their own hardware. To skip setup, use H3 Image online in MiniMax Design. Before you deploy or redistribute the model, read the license on the official model page.
H3 Image reads the knowledge, structure, and intent inside long, detailed instructions and organizes them into a clear visual. It can build research figures with labeled panels, field-guide infographics with dozens of facts, and evidence boards that work through a logic puzzle to the right answer. Instructions can run up to 32,000 characters.
Yes. H3 Image can read a flat game map as its only spatial guide and render a first-person, in-engine view from any point on it. Terrain height, building positions, rivers, bridges, and roads stay true to the map, and the camera only shows what it could actually see. It can even add a matching HUD minimap.
Up to 16. H3 Image can merge content, style, and layout from different images into one result. For example, it can place nine furniture cutouts into a photo of an empty room and keep each piece's color, material, and proportions. Each reference can be up to 64 MiB, 128–8192 px per side, in JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, or HEIF format.
H3 Image outputs at 1K, 2K, or 4K, with aspect ratios from 1:3 to 3:1. You can also set a custom width and height between 655,360 and 20,000,000 total pixels. Export as PNG, JPEG, or WebP, and generate 1–10 images per run.
H3 Image produces natural light, believable shadows, and tactile textures such as skin, fur, fabric, and weathered metal. Its images show little of the over-smoothed "AI look." It also handles hard physical details well, including mirror reflections, hand shadows in projected light, and people interacting with ropes.
Yes. Starting from a product image, H3 Image can build a detailed exploded view, with parts spread along their assembly lines, small fasteners grouped beside the right component, and labeled leader lines. It also produces CAD-style multi-view drawings, cutaway diagrams, and blueprint posters. Part structure, proportions, and alignment across views stay true to the original.
H3 Image is strongest at game art, 3D and CG scenes, and concept art. It creates AAA-style key art, character turnaround sheets with matching front, side, and back views, detailed fantasy creatures, VFX moments, and cinematic matte paintings for cutscenes. It can also turn comic characters into convincing live-action versions.
Yes. H3 Image has built-in prompt expansion that adds detail to a short request before it generates. Expansion is on by default for text-to-image and can be turned off; for image editing it is always on. You can also get the expanded prompt back to see exactly what the model used.
Yes. H3 Image renders titles, labels, and short annotations clearly, such as panel labels on a research figure or a title on a character poster. Long paragraphs and very dense text are less reliable, so keep the text in the image short and add longer copy in your design tool afterward.
Yes. Create your image with H3 Image, then use it as the starting frame for MiniMax H3 Max or another image-to-video model in MiniMax Design. Describe the camera movement and the subject's action to bring the scene to life.
Bring a sketch, a product photo, or a line of worldbuilding. Turn it into the first image for your project.
