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3D Packaging Design and Visualization Studio Why work in a flat world if packaging isn’t? Studio is a unique set of tools for 3D packaging design made specifically for packaging artwork professionals. Studio will help you produce better artwork. Whether you are a designer trying out different ideas, or a pre-press operator checking a back-match, with Studio you are virtually holding the pack in your hands. Studio is also a powerful communication tool. It lets you create exciting 3D visuals to show to your client, ranging from PDF files with 3D content to movies, or a virtual pack shot. Other 3D tools can be too complicated. It can take hours to model and render an image. Studio is fast and easy, because it integrates with your tools (like Adobe® Illustrator®), it works with your data and speaks the language of packaging. Studio shows the package in 3D, right in Adobe ® Illustrator ®, ArtPro or PackEdge.

Benefits Studio is for all packaging artwork professionals, in design and production: For Packaging Designers Studio is a fast & easy way to turn your ideas into beautiful 3D images, for your own inspiration or to impress an important client. There is no more need to cut, fold and glue print-outs all the time because you see the package on the screen. You’ll find yourself working faster and more creative. And the artwork that you deliver is technically more correct, so that your design does not get compromised during production. You might still make conventional mock-ups, but with Studio...

Studio for Boxes Folding carton or corrugated packaging can be tough: there are many panels, some of them have odd orientations and it’s hard to imagine how it folds and fits together. Studio works particularly well with boxes. It has technology from ArtiosCAD, the preferred choice of the professional structural designer, and several clever artwork tools to handle the complexity of panels. Fold If you have the native file from the die makers CAD system then you can work right away in 3D. If you only have a flat die-drawing then Studio will help you to fold it. The toolkit contains the...

The distribute feature creates and positions intelligent copies of selected artwork. Distribute When several flaps make up one face, the clever distribute feature creates copies of artwork to make it appear continuous across the panels. You don’t need to be a mathematician anymore to make clever designs. Foils, Embossing, Varnish Folding carton has a lot of special effects and finishing possibilities. But how do you explain your client how that holographic board with color overprint will look? Or how can you make sure the varnish blanket is correct? Studio Visualizer can create a lifelike...

Studio for Labels From profile drawing to realistic mock-ups. Many label packaging is round. If you can provide a profile drawing, Studio can revolve it around a vertical axis and off you go into the 3rd dimension: Studio can add cylindrical and conical labels. Conical labels can be challenging: as they wrap around the container, the artwork is optically distorted. Studio offers a conic warp tool that can instantly warp selected art to make it appear straight again. To see transparent materials, special label substrates, custom die-cuts or special finishing, you launch Studio Visualizer and...

Studio for Shrink Sleeves and Multipacks 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. To prepare, you need the container as a 3D file from a CAD system, a desktop 3D scanner or one of the other Studio Toolkits. Studio can then simulate a virtual shrink sleeve around the object. This truly unique simulation can handle round objects, asymetrical objects and even multi-packs. Now it is time to apply the...

1 More Shapes? With all the toolkits you can easily make 3D objects yourself. For other popular packaging shapes you can access our Online Shapes Store straight from within Adobe® Illustrator ® and purchase a Collada file, ready to use. The Store has beverage cans, tubes, PET bottles, plastic bottles and many more. If you need something exclusive, EskoArtwork also offers a 3D modeling service. Our professional 3D artists can prepare Collada files for Studio based on CAD files, photographs or real samples. If you already have a 3D department, you’ll be happy to hear that Studio can integrate...

Print and Finishing effects The real-time images in Studio 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. So what you see, doesn’t only look great, it’s also technically feasible. Visualizer print modeling of a foil board overprinted with black, pink and yellow, an opaque white, a holographic hot stamp foil, micro embossing and rounded embossing. Available materials and effects • Paper: gloss coated, matt coated, uncoated, textured, colored...

Modules You can pick a configuration to your current needs and always have the option to expand later: n Designer Designer is the heart of Studio. It adds a 3D preview to the editor and lets you create 3D PDF files. • Revolve a profile curve into a round 3D shape • Add flat labels to the top or bottom • Add cylindrical or conical labels to the sides • Exports to a Collada file for Designer and Visualizer • Non-destructive warp tool for conical labels • Plug-in for Adobe ® Illustrator ® (Mac/PC). n • Place structural design files from ArtiosCAD or from one of the toolkits • Place Collada...