Testing Out Adobe Dimension Materials

Here's a few quick material tests I rendered in Adobe Dimension.

If you happen to have Adobe Creative Cloud then you can easily add Dimension which is Adobe's 3d rendering engine. I call it a rendering engine because there are no real modeling tools inside it. This first test is just a few primitives with different materials applied to them with a studio lighting setup. You can get pretty interesting transparency materials, metals, woods and other types of materials that look fairly photorealistic. The cameras in Dimension are adjustable as well for depth of field. Render time is pretty quick as well.

Here's another test I did fairly quickly with some primitive geometry. In dimension you can set up a background image and match it to the camera view with one click, this comes in handy for producing photorealistic results quickly. Some of the materials I played around with include gold, silver and some glass and plastic. The render engine did a pretty good job and the lights create convincing enough shadows.

For this render test I wanted to try a nice white shiny background with two lights. I used a few transparent materials to see how the render engine would handle them. Again it did a pretty good job. The only thing about Adobe Dimension are the lack of modeling tools, fortunately you can get around this by just importing your geometry from another 3d program like Blender or 3ds Max. Then once the geometry is imported you can easily apply materials and reach a good lighting solution quickly vs. trying to play around with complex lighting/rendering solutions from more advanced 3d software.

Another basic lighting test with the same geometry and different colors. The green box on top was a test of placing an image onto geometry i.e. a logo, this process is as easy as dragging and dropping it onto the surface then moving it into place. Overall I am liking Dimension as an alternative rendering engine to something like vray or mental ray. I still prefer 3ds max and vray as my goto 3d modeler and render engine but Dimension seems to add a unique kind of look to the images that would go well with product displays i.e. packaging or abstract 3d geometry. Eventually I will see how it does with an interior design scene as well as an exterior architectural scene.