Minecraft now has an official way to export 3D models, but there's a catch: it's only available with the Windows 10 version of the game.

Minecraft has extremely basic texture fidelity, graphics quality, and entity 3D models. When a player creates their character, it has a simple blocky 3D model with pixelated skin texture.

CraftCells: 3D Cell Biology Reaches Broad Audiences with Minecraft Researchers translated experimental data into Minecraft files to recreate 3D images in a more accessible setting.