Change texture on 3D object and export 2D image

I would like to generate 2D images of 3D books with custom covers on demand.

Ideally, I'd like to import a 3D model of a book (created by an artist), change the cover texture to the custom one, and export a bitmap image (jpeg, png, etc...). I'm fairly ignorant about 3D graphics, so I'm not sure if that's possible or feasible, but it describes what I want to do. Another method would be fine if it accomplishes something similar. Like maybe I could start with a rendered 2D image and distort the custom cover somehow then put it in the right place over the original image?

It would be best if I could do this using Python, but if开发者_StackOverflow that's not possible, I'm open to other solutions.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Sure it's possible.

Blender would probably be overkill, but you can script blender with python, so that's one solution.

The latter solution is (I'm pretty sure) what most of those e-book cover generators do, which is why they always look a little off.

The PIL is an excellent tool for manipulating images and pixel data, so if you wanted to distort your own, that would be a great tool to look at, and if it goes too slow it's trivial to convert the image to a numpy array so you can get some speedup.