Pixel Space

Turn a flat image into a world of shapes and motion.

Turn photographs and artwork into dimensional images, sculptures, and animated visuals. Explore point, geometric, and flowing-line render styles, shape the scene, and capture it as cover artwork, moving imagery, or geometry for further editing.

Pixel Space artwork example
Pixel Space artwork example

What you can do

  • An image with volume

    Give an image depth and volume, from a recognizable photographic relief to a scattered cloud of colored points.

  • Sculptural surfaces

    Wrap the source around spheres, knots, and mathematical surfaces to discover silhouettes and structures a flat image cannot show.

  • Living structures

    Set the artwork in motion with animated cameras, changing geometry, and interactive forces that ripple, swirl, or gather its points.

  • Finish in 3D

    Develop the scene in the integrated editor, then finish it as a still image, recorded motion piece, image sequence, or exported geometry.

A blue image translated into a raised field of small geometric blocksA blue image translated into a raised field of small geometric blocksColored image points connected by rainbow strands converging in three dimensionsColored image points connected by rainbow strands converging in three dimensions

What you can make

  • Dimensional photography

    Dimensional portraits, fragmented landscapes, particle sculptures, and abstract interpretations of photographs or illustrations.

  • Covers and posters

    Cover art and posters: make a subject read clearly from the front, then use a side view to expose its depth.

  • Music visuals

    Music visuals and motion studies: animate the camera or selected parameters around the same image-derived structure.

  • Geometry studies

    Multi-angle sheets and geometry studies for later editing, presentation, or experimentation in other software.

  • Art direction and image variations

    Develop several distinct treatments of one source image to compare directions for a cover, campaign, or photographic artwork series.

  • Graphic assets for finished designs

    Capture a dimensional image treatment to use as the central artwork in a poster, title graphic, or promotional design.

A blue photographic surface reconstructed as rippling rows of pointsA blue photographic surface reconstructed as rippling rows of pointsMultiple human figures rendered as point clouds with blue and green connecting strandsMultiple human figures rendered as point clouds with blue and green connecting strands

Project ideas

  • A portrait becomes a colored relief whose profile appears only from the side.

  • One illustration becomes a coordinated cover series, reinterpreted as a sphere, a knot, and a drifting point cloud.

What sets it apart

  • Use an image as the material for a 3D piece: a portrait can become a dimensional relief, a landscape a colored structure, or an illustration an abstract sculpture.

  • Compose and edit the result in 3D, then choose how to use it: capture a still, record motion, export a sequence, or take geometry into another tool.

A blue point relief with light-like strands extending above its surfaceA blue point relief with light-like strands extending above its surfaceA pink flower rendered as a dimensional point sculpture over a green rippling surfaceA pink flower rendered as a dimensional point sculpture over a green rippling surface

Supporting capabilities

  • Depth comes from image values, giving you material for artistic interpretation rather than a measured scan of the subject.

Why use Pixel Space?

  • Open Pixel Space when this style of making or play feels closest to what you want.

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

Inputs and exports

Supported inputs

  • Images

  • Background images or video

  • Compatible PAX projects

Available outputs

  • PNG and custom images

  • Image sequences and sheets

  • Recorded video

  • PAX projects and edits

  • PLY, STL, and OBJ geometry

Continue your creative workflow

Open Pixel Space