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AVATAR STUDIOSNEPAL

About

A small studio with an unusually wide bench.

A creative 3D printing studio specialising in custom couple and family miniatures, personalised avatars and unique 3D-printed creations.

Why we started

Photographs are easy to lose.

A phone holds thousands of pictures and shows almost none of them. The moments that matter most, a first birthday, a wedding day, a family finally in the same frame, get scrolled past. We wanted to give people a way to put one of those moments back into the room.

So Avatar Studios Pvt. Ltd. was built around a simple idea: take an ordinary photo, sculpt it properly in 3D, and hand back something you can pick up. No stock poses, no generic body with a face pasted on. Every avatar is modelled to the person in the picture. their build, their outfit, their haircut, the ball they never put down.

That standard scales in both directions. We have sculpted deity statues for homes and temples, commemorative portraits of public figures, collectibles for shops, and prototypes for businesses that just needed a part printed properly.

Because our artists already work in 3D, we produce animation, motion graphics and visual effects as well. The same character we print for your shelf can walk across a screen in your campaign film.

Studio paint bench with pots of acrylic paint, a mixing palette and a reference photo on a phone
The paint benchSamakhusi, Kathmandu

6–10″

Standard figurine height

7–10

Days for most single pieces

100%

Hand-painted in Kathmandu

What we promise

Four things we will not cut corners on.

Premium materials

High-detail resin and durable filament, not the brittle prints that chip on the first knock.

Handcrafted with precision

Every model is sculpted, sanded and painted by hand. Nothing leaves the studio half-finished.

Realistic or toon

Lifelike likeness or a playful stylised version. Your call, on every piece.

Print and screen, one team

The artists who sculpt your figurine can animate it too. Rare in Nepal, and it shows.

Inside the studio

Most of the work happens before the printer starts.

Sculpting the likeness is the slow part, and it is the part that decides whether your family recognises the figure on the shelf.

In-house capabilities

  • Digital sculpting from photographs
  • High-detail resin printing
  • Durable filament printing
  • Hand sanding, priming and painting
  • 3D animation and rendering
  • Motion graphics, compositing and VFX
  1. Studio paint bench with pots of acrylic paint, a mixing palette and a reference photo on a phone

    01

    Send your photos

    Two or three clear photos on WhatsApp. Front and side if you have them. Ordinary phone photos are enough.

  2. Unpainted grey resin print of a man with folded arms resting on a workbench beside brushes

    02

    We sculpt the model

    Our artists build the likeness by hand in 3D and send a preview render. You ask for changes until it is right.

  3. Hands holding a Ganesh statue while a fine brush picks out detail on the robes

    03

    Print, paint, finish

    Printed in premium resin, then cured, sanded and hand-painted at the bench in Kathmandu.

  4. Hand-painted 3D printed figurine of a young girl sitting cross-legged on a round base engraved with her name

    04

    Boxed and delivered

    Protective packaging, delivered across Kathmandu Valley or couriered anywhere in Nepal.

The team

The person who reads your message usually sculpts your piece.

NM

Nisha Manandhar

Founder & Director

SM

Sagun Manandhar

3D Artist & Sculptor

OP

Om Paudel

Print & Finishing

Where to find us

The studio is in Samakhusi, Kathmandu 44600. Avatar Studios Pvt. Ltd. is registered in Tokha, Kathmandu. Visits are welcome. Send a message first so someone is at the bench when you arrive.