Studio

3D Packaging Software

Produce better artwork with Studio, a 3D packaging design and visualization software for designers and converters.

What packaging design challenges do you face?

The packaging design process can be lengthy, complex, and, and siloed, leading to missed deadlines and packaging errors. Outsourcing packaging images to agencies has become unsustainable.

By digitizing the design and prototyping with Studio, you can:

Increase productivity in packaging design

Improve collaboration across packaging and marketing departments

Decrease costs associated with product photography

Increase Productivity in Packaging Design

Physical packaging takes time to design, approve, and then create the physical prototype before the product can be photographed. When drawing packaging designs manually, the artwork doesn’t always turn out as expected once produced.

Studio uses the actual production assets, so 3D models and images are in sync with the printed packaging, creating a digital twin. The patented print modeling technology accurately predicts how packaging will look when the physical package gets created so you can create product photography in anticipation of the product release. This allows packaging and marketing teams to better plan for product launches.

Improve Collaboration Across Packaging and Marketing Departments

Decrease Costs Associated with Product Photography

Product photography can be expensive and time-consuming. Often times, products have to be in production before they can be sent to photographers, causing delays and forcing brands to work on the timelines of 3rd parties. With concept design, artwork creation, and presentation from a single digital source, you can eliminate the need for product photography by creating photo-realistic images of the product packaging as it will look on the shelf.

Studio Workflow

Studio Options

Studio Essentials

All the tools you need to create cartons, bottles, trays and displays with stunning artwork and special materials and finishing. You’re able to share your packaging as packshots, or even in augmented reality.

The Studio Essentials bundle consists of:

Designer adds a 3D preview to the editor and the lets you create 3D PDF files or TIFF packshots.
Toolkit for Boxes is a plug-in for Adobe® Illustrator® to clean up die-drawings and fold them into a 3D shape.
Toolkit for Labels is a plug-in for Adobe® Illustrator® to create round objects with one or more labels.
Visualizer adds the finishing touch. Its patented dynamic print visualization can show a wide range of substrates, printing and finishing effects in real-time.

Designer: design packaging in 3D in your Editor!

Designer is the heart of Studio. It adds a 3D preview to the editor and the lets you create 3D PDF files or TIFF pack shots. Designer is available on Adobe® Illustrator®, ArtPro and PackEdge.

Now with support for complex multi-piece structures from ArtiosCAD.

Designer functionality

Add a 3D preview to your artwork editor and share 3D files.
Place structural design files from ArtiosCAD or from one of the Studio Toolkits
Place Collada files from the Online Shapes Store.
Show package in 3D with artwork
Show multiple artwork files on a multi-piece 3D scene
Navigate in 3D, zoom in on panels, automatic canvas rotation
Export to 3D PDF, Collada, U3D or TIFF
Plug-in for AI® (Mac/PC)
Available in ArtPro and PackEdge

Studio for Boxes: create folded structures for Designer or Visualizer

Toolkit for Boxes is a plug-in for Adobe® Illustrator® to clean up die-drawings and fold them into a 3D shape. See your artwork on the box in 3D, find and correct mistakes and produce interactive 3D PDFs or TIFF pack shots.

Now with support for artwork on both sides of the sheet.

Studio for Boxes functionality

Assign folds & cuts
Clean up die drawings
Pick folding carton or corrugation board types
Fold up in 3D
Export to an ArtiosCAD file for Designer or Visualizer
Available as a plug-in for Adobe® Illustrator® (Mac/PC)

Fold basic Box

Fold Illustrator dielines

Apply graphics and refold if required

Studio Toolkits for Labels: avoid optical distortion of your artwork

Toolkit for Labels is a plug-in for Adobe® Illustrator® to create round objects with one or more labels. See your artwork on the label in 3D, automatically warp artwork for conical labels and produce great looking 3D PDF files.

Now with improved support for multiple labels.

Toolkit for Labels functionality

Import a 3D Collada file
Add labels to single curved parts
Or revolve a profile curve into a round 3D shape
Add flat labels to the top or bottom of revolved shapes
Add cylindrical or conical labels to the sides or revolved shapes
Calculate the label die-cut based on the 3D shape
Export to a Collada file for Designer and Visualizer
Non-destructive warp tool for conical labels (for AI®)
Partially a plug-in for AI®

Fold basic Box

Fold Illustrator dielines

Apply graphics and refold if required

Studio Visualizer: packaging visualization in 3D

Visualizer adds the finishing touch. Its patented dynamic print visualization is able to show a wide range of substrates, printing and finishing effects in real-time.

With Visualizer you can share the results as images or movies.

The real-time images in Visualizer are ultra-realistic thanks to a patented print modeling technology. Visualizer simulates the printing and finishing operations one by one, in the correct order, and on the right substrate, even for complicated luxury packaging. So what you see, doesn’t only look great, it’s also technically feasible.

Toolkit for Labels functionality

Paper: gloss coated, matt coated, uncoated, textured, colored
Clear and white plastic film
Metal, (colored) glass, rigid plastic
Label paper (coated and uncoated), clear label paper, metalized label paper
CHROMOLUX® label papers and boards from M-real Zanders 1 line
Various AVERY DENNISSON label materials
Process colors
PANTONE® and PANTONE GOE colors (solids, pastels, metallic)
Spot colors and opaque spot colors
Screen printed (opaque) colors

Reverse printing, surface printing or recto-verso printing
Spot UV varnish (matt, satin, glossy)
Proprietary varnishes from Fujifilm® and Sakata INX®
Embossing and debossing, multi-level, sharp or rounded
Sculptured embossing
Die-cutting
Hot stamp metal foils (gold, silver or colored)
Cold foils (gold, silver, colored, overprinted)
Metallic inks (PANTONE® metallics, Eckart silver and gold pigments)
Kurz® Light Line holographic foils

Studio Advanced (Adds)

The Studio Advanced bundle is perfect for design and premedia agencies that need to handle every packaging shape imaginable.

The Studio Advanced bundle adds

Toolkit for Flexibles is a unique application to create 3D models of flexible packaging.
Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is a unique and award winning application to simulate a heat shrink sleeve around one or more objects.

Studio Toolkit for Flexibles, the flexible packaging software

The Studio Toolkit for Flexibles is a unique application to create 3D models of flexible packaging. In Adobe® Illustrator®, ArtPro or Package you can see your artwork on the flexible pack in 3D, find and correct mistakes, automatically create a back match and produce great-looking 3D PDF files.

All you have to do is pick a type of package and fill in the settings from the filling machine. To make the pack unique you can interact with it. See it move like the real thing. Add air and liquid filling or insert a geometric shape to mimic a candy bar, biscuit or ice cream. It’s so much faster than other modeling tools because it has built in filling and substrate knowledge.

Toolkit for Flexibles functionality

Pillow bags, gusseted bags, rectangular stand-up pouches, three & four sided sealed pouches, Quattro-seal bags and diaper bags
Change dimensions & content
Various tools to Interact with the shape
Exports to a Collada file with matching key lines for Designer and Visualizer
Application for Mac OS and Windows

Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves for perfect shrink sleeve design

Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves is a unique and award winning application to simulate a heat shrink sleeve around one or more objects. See in Adobe® Illustrator® how your artwork distorts, automatically apply a counter distortion and produce great looking 3D PDF files. Avoid trial-and-error. print your shrink sleeve artwork the first time right.

Compensate for shrinking

Artwork for heat shrink packaging is the toughest. As the film shrinks, the branding and the design can be seriously compromised.
So artwork needs to be repositioned, or compensated. Without the Studio 3D view, you are working blind

Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves functionality

Import 3D objects from a Studio toolkit or another source (.OBJ, .ZAE, .DAE, .ARD)
Round shapes, irregular shapes and multi-packs
Add a horizontal or vertical heat shrink sleeve
Physical simulation of material shrink properties
Export to a Collada file for Designer and Visualizer
See shrink distortion statistics in Adobe® Illustrator®
Pre-distort selected artwork to compensate for the shrink distortion (non-destructive)