A single photo goes in. An MP4 of the subject as a real 3D object — turning, dollying, or sweeping past the camera on a brand-new background — comes out. Two HTTP calls. Eighty credits. About four minutes of wall-clock.

That is the brief for Lensora Studio , the newest endpoint on PixelAPI. This post walks through what it does, the design choices behind it, and the slab-shaped detour we took to get the 3D step right.

A real Rolleiflex photo went in. This is one frame of the turntable MP4 that came out — the kitchen background was generated from a one-line prompt.

What it does, end to end

You hand the API a photo. It does four things back to back:

Detect. Object detection returns up to eight foreground proposals — bounding box, label, category — so a user can pick which thing to transform. Useful for messy frames, packshots that include props, or detection over-segmenting a logo into pieces.

Cut and rebackground.…