What you'll own
Modelling and asset creation
- Build accurate, production-ready 3D models of products, accessories and packaging from CAD files, technical drawings, physical samples or concept sketches
- Clean topology and correct UV unwrapping suitable for high-resolution texturing
- Maintain an organised, reusable asset and material library — models, shaders, lighting rigs, HDRIs, scene templates
- Build packaging and dieline mockups from Illustrator artwork
Texturing and shading
- Author PBR materials that behave correctly under different lighting — plastics, silicone, TPU, metals, glass, coated and matte finishes, printed graphics, fabrics
- Reproduce real substrate and finish characteristics accurately, working from physical samples
- Apply production artwork to models correctly, respecting print area, bleed and wrap behaviour
Lighting and rendering
- Design studio and environment lighting setups that make products read well and consistently
- Deliver final-quality stills, turntables, exploded views, detail crops and short animations
- Manage render settings, sampling, denoising and output for both speed and quality; keep a rendering pipeline that doesn't bottleneck the team
Colour and post-production
- Work in a controlled colour pipeline: correct gamma / linear workflow, scene-referred vs display-referred handling, ACES or equivalent, colour space discipline from texture input through to final export
- Composite and finish in Photoshop with non-destructive, revisable layer work
- Soft-proof renders against our print output profiles so what a client approves is what we can actually manufacture
- Deliver correctly prepared assets for each destination: e-commerce, print, social, presentation
Presentation and communication
- Build and deliver client-facing presentations — concept decks, design reviews, product pitches
- Produce mood boards, concept boards and visual narratives that explain a design direction, not just show it
- Take design feedback in a live review and turn it around quickly
- Present technical constraints to non-technical stakeholders clearly
AI-assisted workflow
- Use generative and AI tools intelligently to accelerate ideation, texture generation, upscaling, background work and variant exploration
- Know where these tools help and where they fail — and never let them compromise dimensional accuracy or colour fidelity on production work
- Stay current as the tooling changes, and bring useful additions to the team
What we're looking for
Must have
- 3+ years producing commercial product renders, with a portfolio that demonstrates photoreal quality
- Strong command of at least one 3D package — Blender, Cinema 4D, 3ds Max, Maya, or Rhino
- Production experience with a physically-based render engine — V-Ray, Corona, Redshift, Octane, Cycles, Arnold or KeyShot
- Advanced Photoshop (compositing, retouching, non-destructive workflow) and solid Illustrator (vector artwork, dielines, artwork prep)
- Real understanding of gamma and colour space management — linear workflow, sRGB / Adobe RGB, tone mapping, why a render looks different across viewers and how to fix it
- Working fluency with current AI tools (Midjourney, Firefly, Stable Diffusion / ComfyUI, AI upscalers) in a professional workflow
- Genuine presentation ability — you can stand in front of a client and carry the room
- Strong photographic instincts: composition, lighting, lens behaviour, depth of field
Good to have
- Substance 3D Painter / Designer for texturing
- CAD familiarity — SolidWorks, Fusion 360, or STEP/IGES import cleanup
- Real-time rendering — Unreal Engine, Marmoset Toolbag
- Motion work — After Effects, product animation, simple simulation
- Studio product photography experience (it makes better renders)
- Print production knowledge — how a render differs from a printed result and why
- Figma, Keynote or equivalent for deck building
Portfolio requirements
A portfolio is mandatory. We will not review applications without one. Please include:
- At least three product visualisation projects, ideally consumer goods
- Wireframe or viewport screenshots alongside finals, so we can see your modelling and not just your compositing
- One before/after showing your post-production work
- If available: a client presentation or concept deck you personally built and delivered
- A note on which parts of each project were yours, if the work was collaborative
