Take your creative vision to new dimensions with Project Neo (beta)
Bringing depth and dimension to your designs — whether it's logos, brand icons, infographics, or illustrations — has traditionally been a time-consuming challenge. Designers often spend hours meticulously adjusting elements in perspective, only to find themselves locked into a single static view. This is what kickstarted Project Neo (beta), first shown at last year’s Adobe MAX as a Sneak.
This groundbreaking web-based design tool revolutionizes the creation of dimensional designs, graphics, and illustrations. With Project Neo, you're no longer confined to 2D limitations — explore your design from any 3D angle, make dynamic adjustments to vector lighting and shadows in real-time, and save hours of work in the process. What once took painstaking effort can now be accomplished in minutes, freeing you to focus on unleashing your creativity rather than grappling with tedious adjustments. Welcome to a new era of efficient, flexible, and visually stunning design.
The private beta has so far attracted more than 62,000 users, whose invaluable feedback helped us develop Project Neo further and add new functionality. Let’s take a look at how it will empower you to speed up your graphic design workflows by creating compositions first with dimensional shapes — without requiring technical expertise in 3D creation tools.
Make designs faster with Project Neo
Creating artwork with the right perspective takes painstaking visualization and manual calculations. With Project Neo, we’re empowering you to create and edit volumetric designs with flexibility, control, and precision.
Project Neo features an intuitive web-based interface, built specifically for design use cases, that will feel familiar to anyone using Adobe Illustrator or other Adobe Creative Cloud tools. The Shape Editor follows the design and UI conventions you’re already used to and integrates into your existing design workflows, so you can get started quickly.
“Manipulating 3D with the ease-of-use of Illustrator gives a new dimension to my artwork.”
-Anthony Genlinso, Senior Art director at Adobe, Project Neo alpha user
Explore creative ideas, rapidly visualize concepts, and quickly edit endless variations — non-destructively — to edit, alter, or rotate shapes, lighting, angles and perspectives to achieve the look you want. Then send your artwork that you created in Project Neo directly to Illustrator as an SVG, where you can seamlessly edit, refine, and customize your composition to fit your unique design style.
Support for 3D typography also enables you to quickly integrate extruded and beveled fonts into a design. Seamlessly blend and position text and combine 3D typography and shapes for stunning results. Project Neo makes it straightforward and fast to create variations in typography for client requests or creative exploration.
“Project Neo makes me feel like 3D design is accessible to everyone. As a vector artist, the transition between workflows feels seamless.”
-Kaleb Gonyea, Graphic Artist & Content creator
Project Neo also significantly improves collaboration with other team members, stakeholders, and clients, as you can view your artwork together in real time. Simply share a link to your design composition and anyone can see it from different angles. Quickly create variations of a concept in the same file, for example when changes are being requested, to speed up the review and approval process. Designing in Project Neo is non-destructive, which means you have full control over your artwork and don’t have to worry about your file being altered during the review.
Discover, learn, and share with the Project Neo community
Starting from a blank canvas can be intimidating and what better way to get started than being inspired by other designers who have already created artwork in Project Neo?
If you want to see what’s possible with Project Neo and are looking for inspiration for your next design project, simply browse the public community gallery and discover artwork created with Project Neo. Then use Project Neo’s History Slider to see a time lapse of how a particular design that’s been shared to the community has been made. By working backwards through the composition, you can understand the steps and techniques that were used to create artwork in Project Neo.
“Looking at the gallery and being able to see how people are creating all sorts of designs from just geometric shapes and the different tools within Project Neo is really helpful and inspiring.”
-Kelsey, Graphic designer
Try out Project Neo today
Project Neo complements your existing design workflows, which means you can get started designing quickly. As you can apply the principles you already know from creating vector artwork, you can make volumetric designs in minutes, not hours, with Project Neo.
Project Neo increases your efficiency as a graphic designer, giving you new creative options that expand the limits of your creativity in ways you were not able to before. We can’t wait to see what you create with it!
Try out Project Neo today, share your own artwork to the community, join the conversation via Discord, and give us feedback on your experience of designing with Project Neo. Your voice will play an integral role in its further development.