Step inside a photo booth at Huntsville’s Lowe Mill and a few weeks later you can have an 8-inch-tall figurine that looks exactly like you.

The little statue is called a 3-D selfie, and that’s also the name of Pat and Debra Taylor’s business.

Unlike most 3-D printed creations, the mini-me statues are embedded with lifelike color.

The detail is remarkable. Facial details and even folds in fabric are captured exactly in the hollow sandstone figurines.

“From our understanding, most 3-D printers will print in plastic and metal, and in one color,” said Debra Taylor of 3DSelfies. The process the couple’s business uses prints in color and replicates “what you’re wearing and what you look like in the booth.”

Pat and Debra Taylor with their own 3D selfie figurines.

The round photo booth is 8 feet across and can accommodate up to four people. Some pose with their pets, or even put the pet in there alone.

Roughly 100 tiny cameras situated all around the booth capture the image in just a second or two. After about 45 minutes customers are e-mailed a free GIF file with a 360-degree rotating image of what the figure will look like. If the customer likes it, he or she can go on the business website to place an order for a statue that will be shipped to their home about three or four weeks later. There’s no obligation to buy anything.

Couples have ordered figures of themselves to put on top of wedding cakes. One woman posed with a snake. Sci-fi fans in costume preserve their images in full makeup and homemade costumes.

Some customers pose with their pets, or just put the pet in the scanner by themselves. (Deborah Storey, For AL.com)

The Taylors opened the business about 18 months ago and moved into a Lowe Mill studio in September 2018. Because the booth is portable they can take it to special events like parties or bridal fairs.

They book appointment on their website, operate the booth, send the GIFs to customers and process orders, but the manufacturing of the statue is done in Utah.

When they heard about this new technology a couple of years ago they thought it would be popular in Huntsville because it’s unique and uses cutting-edge technology. Image capturing relies on a combination of the cameras and an instantaneous projection of tiny grids onto the subject.

“A lot of companies have their own 3-D printing capabilities but they can’t do what we do,” said Pat Taylor.

The statues are hollow and can break if dropped.

“They are a keepsake,” said Debra Taylor, usually of “somebody they love.

“They’re not a toy.”

Joe McCormack, owner of ALNA Cigar Box Guitars in Huntsville, had a 3-D selfie made as a Christmas present to himself.

“I just thought they were cool to have,” said McCormack. He posed wearing a Jack Daniel’s shirt and holding a cigar box guitar. It’s on a shelf at his house.

The subject in the booth must stay completely still for the process to work.

“If a kid gets in there and starts waving his arms you get the picture back and there’s no arms,” said Pat Taylor. “It will kind of freak you out.”

The details

3DSelfies is open at 2211 Seminole Drive Studio 102 during Lowe Mill public hours Wednesday and Thursday noon-6 p.m., Friday noon-8 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Pricing depends on the number of people scanned and the size of the figure ordered. A 3-inch bust (shoulder up) is $99. A one-person selfie is $89 for a 4-inch, $199 for 6-inch, $299 for 8-inch. Larger sizes allow for more detail.