Canvas Stack

Build artwork across canvases, through depth.

Combine drawing, photographs, and text across canvases arranged in 3D. Cut and reshape the layers to build spatial collages, illustrated scenes, dimensional lettering, and sculptural artwork with an editable surface on every sheet.

Canvas Stack artwork example
Canvas Stack artwork example

What you can do

  • Compose across canvases

    Compose across independent sheets while seeing the entire construction in space. Drawings, photographs, and text can each occupy their own layer.

  • Reveal the layers behind

    Carve openings through one sheet or many, revealing imagery and color behind them to build tunnels, cut-paper scenes, and sculptural lettering.

  • Build through depth

    Arrange canvases in rings, spirals, grids, and spheres, or shape their cross-sections into bowls, tubes, and other sliced volumes.

  • A moving construction

    Animate the layers and camera to reveal how the piece is built, or develop a new construction from generated layouts and automatic cuts.

What you can make

  • Tunnel books and paper art

    Paper-cut illustrations, tunnel books, layered posters, sculptural lettering, and stacked color reliefs.

  • Photographic installations

    Photographic installations and collage: distribute several images through depth, then cut openings that reveal the layers behind.

  • Slice-built sculptures

    Slice-built objects and abstract sculpture: carve or shape the stack into a bowl, vase, hollow tube, or repeated form.

  • Moving design studies

    Moving design studies: ripple, peel, fan, or orbit the layers while exploring them with the camera.

  • Dimensional covers and posters

    Combine lettering, illustration, and photographs at different depths to create a finished cover image with a strong layered composition.

  • Original photo artwork

    Arrange several photographs on separate canvases and cut openings between them to build a new composition from the collection.

Project ideas

  • A stack of illustrated sheets becomes a tunnel book, with an opening revealing each scene behind the next.

  • Several photographs become a suspended collage, with separate canvases arranged around a central viewing point.

What sets it apart

  • Work on individual sheets while seeing the whole construction in 3D. Combine illustration, photographs, and lettering into layered artwork with real spatial arrangement.

  • Carve openings through the stack, shape it into volumes, and move its layers. Make tunnel artwork, paper-like sculpture, dimensional posters, and photographic installations.

Supporting capabilities

  • Each canvas remains a working surface inside the 3D composition. Layer Space rendered stacks can also become editable sheets here.

Why use Canvas Stack?

  • Cut, arrange, draw on, and compose images across editable layers and spatial stacks.

  • It connects with the wider Panospace creative workflow, so results can keep evolving across compatible apps.

Inputs and exports

Supported inputs

  • Individual images or image batches

  • Rendered Layer Space PAX stacks

Available outputs

  • 3D scene PNG

  • Selected sheet PNG

  • Post-ready spatial scenes

Continue your creative workflow

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