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Still Life & Product CGI Artist
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About the work.

As a Still Life & Product CGI Artist, I create studio-lit product and still life imagery with a photographer's mindset. My work focuses on material fidelity, controlled studio lighting, and set-driven composition — crafting clean, photoreal visuals built around surface detail, structure, and intentional design.

selected clients & features

experience

Roles & practice.

Freelance — Still Life & Product CGI

2020 — Present

Creating product and still life CGI across commercial and self-initiated projects, with a focus on set design, refined composition, and material realism.

  • Look development, materials and shader creation
  • Studio lighting, rendering, and final image polish
  • Set-driven still life composition and prop-based storytelling
  • Client collaboration, iterations, and delivery-ready assets

Studio Practice / In-house — 3D Artist + Look Development

2021 — 2025

Worked within a commercial production pipeline delivering photoreal CG assets and final frames for campaign and brand visuals.

  • Material and look development for product-focused shots
  • Lighting, scene setup, rendering, and consistency across frames
  • Collaboration with creative and post-production teams
  • High-quality output under production timelines

Architectural Visualization — 3D Artist

2020 — 2021

Produced interior visualizations for residential and hospitality spaces based on architectural plans and design concepts.

  • Photoreal materials, lighting mood, and presentation-ready renders
  • Spatial accuracy and clean, marketable imagery
software

Tools.

  • 3DCinema 4D
  • RenderOctane · Redshift · Corona
  • PostPhotoshop · Lightroom · Premiere Pro · DaVinci Resolve
skills

Practice.

  • Look Development · Material & Shader Design
  • Studio Lighting · Photoreal Rendering
  • Still Life / Product Visualization
  • Set Design (CGI) · Composition & Image Polish
education

Studies.

  • Budapest Metropolitan University
  • BAEnvironmental Design