What is 3D Box/Package Mockup?

3D Box/Package Mockup lets you visualize product packaging by wrapping your flat designs onto realistic 3D box shapes. Upload artwork for all six faces, then rotate the box in real-time to see how your package will look from every angle. Great for product designers and e-commerce sellers.

The scene runs on WebGL, so rotation and lighting changes happen at 60fps even on modest laptops. You can set custom width, height, and depth in centimetres or inches, swap the background colour for studio shots, and dial the light intensity between flat catalogue lighting and dramatic side-light. Switch between a realistic perspective view and a parallel isometric one, then export the PNG at screen, 2x retina, or 4K resolution.

How to use

1. Choose a box shape (standard box, tall box, cube, or custom dimensions) and set the width, height, and depth in your preferred units.
2. Upload images for each face of the box — front, back, left, right, top, and bottom. Each face maps automatically to the correct surface.
3. Rotate and zoom the 3D preview using your mouse, adjust lighting and background color, then export a high-resolution PNG screenshot.

When to use

• Showing a client what a label looks like wrapped around the box before paying for print samples.
• Generating Amazon listing photos when you only have flat dieline artwork.
• Comparing two label rough drafts side by side on the same box geometry.

Result

A cereal brand designer uploads her front label (nutrition info, logo) and side panel artwork onto a tall box shape, rotates it to a 3/4 view angle, and exports a mockup for her client presentation.

FAQ

What artwork dimensions should I upload for each face?

Match the aspect ratio of each face. For a standard cereal box, the front is taller than it is wide (around 3:4), the side is narrow (1:4), and the top is wide and shallow (4:1). Square uploads work but will stretch, so export your dielines flat first.

Can I make non-rectangular shapes like pouches or tubes?

Not in this view. The mockup uses box primitives: cube, tall box, wide box, and a custom-dimension box. Cylindrical mockups (tubes, cans) and soft-edge packaging (pouches) need a different tool that supports curved UV mapping.

Why does my logo look slightly squashed on one face?

The texture stretches to fill the full face. If your upload is a different aspect ratio from the face, it'll distort to fit. Crop or pad your artwork to match the face ratio before uploading; letterboxing with the same background colour usually fixes it.

Can I export a transparent PNG for compositing?

Yes. Pick the transparent (checkerboard) swatch under Background, then turn off the floor grid so nothing clutters the cutout, and Export View gives you a PNG with no background — ready to drop onto a banner or slide. Leave the ground shadow on if you want the box to keep a soft contact shadow over transparency.

Is the lighting physically accurate?

It uses a simplified WebGL model: one directional light plus ambient, not path-traced. That trade-off keeps the scene interactive at 60fps. For final hero shots you'd want to take the same artwork into Blender or a paid renderer.

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