Adobe Lets You Act Alongside AI Characters, Who Develop Distinct Personalities Naturally As You Chat

Adobe announced a set of experimental features at the Max 2026 event. As stated in The Verge's report, these experiments cover three core directions: turning regular images into explorable 3D scenes, designing AI characters through natural dialogue, and reworking photo editing into a copy-paste style experience. The first project covered in detail is Project Screen Test, which the report's author considers the most surprising of the lineup.

Project Screen Test is built specifically for AI characters applied in video content. The common industry workflow right now requires creators to write detailed prompts to define a character's voice and behaviors. This tool completely changes that pattern: you speak directly to the character, give it real-time instructions, and adjust its tone and responses in the middle of the interaction. As Adobe envisions, a character's personality takes shape step by step through communication, which can never be fully fixed by a single static description.

This sounds just like a rehearsal platform for screenwriters or character designers. You can have several rounds of chats with the AI character, observe how it responds to your lines, and then decide whether to add it to your final video. The report does not release full operation details, but it is confirmed so far that this tool allows you to shape a character's personality through dialogue.

The other two experimental projects are more productivity-oriented production tools: the image-to-3D-scene function facilitates easy spatial exploration, while the copy-paste style photo editing feature reduces repetitive operations. These are all still experimental projects, and no release timeline is mentioned in the report. You can read the full original report from The Verge here: Link.