[Hiring] Senior 3D Product Render Artist @dbrand

Role Description

We'd like to conduct an experiment. Visit dbrand.com. Take a leisurely scroll through our product displays. Now, try to guess which images you saw were real-life photography and which were renders. If you're struggling, it means we did a good job. If you aren't, you might be able to do an even better one.

We're looking for a Senior 3D Product Render Artist: someone who can take a raw CAD file from our Industrial Designers and turn it into an image asset so convincing that tech publications are fooled into believing we got early iPhone access. Someone who owns every render from raw STEP file to final frame. Most importantly, someone who doesn’t need an Art Director looking over their shoulder during the process.

Your role is to make sure they never get the chance. You'll live within our Photography team, feeding renders to our website, social channels, video projects, and packaging. You'll work with our Graphic Designers and Software Engineers to animate product pages, and with our Videography team to build 3D scenes and motion graphics. Full pipeline, start to finish: refine, shade, layout, light, render - and even animate, when the brief calls for it.

Agility is key. During peak seasons, you might be staring down the barrel of 1,000 renders spanning the launch calendars of Apple, Google and Samsung. Every one of them has to be both perfect and on time. The question isn’t whether you can render 1,000 assets - it’s whether you can build the machine that does, then spend your time on the hero shots that matter.

At dbrand, your renders won't die in a slide deck. They'll be the first thing millions of people see when a new iPhone drops, and the last thing our competitors see before they fail to copy your work.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years’ professional experience.
• Native fluency in Blender or Cinema 4D. Additional skills in Houdini, 3ds Max, or Unreal Engine are an asset, but not required.
• Knowledge of converting industry standard CAD (STEP, STL, OBJ) files into workable 3D assets for production.
• Advanced skills in shading / texturing / UV mapping / lighting / rendering.
• Proficient knowledge of photographic and cinematic techniques (composition, advanced lighting, depth of field, editing) related to computer graphics production.
• Working skills in 3D modelling / rigging / animation.
• Ability to take Industrial CAD files of products through a full pipeline (refine, shade, layout, light, render, animate) to create technically proficient and creatively advanced cinematic compositions.
• Core competency in Adobe software suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
• An impeccable communication style - your grasp of the English language is flawless.
• Detail-oriented, self-sufficient, resourceful, organized, and proactive.
• The instinct to help teammates thrive and the openness to learn from past experiences.
• The ability to solve complex problems (or know where to find the answer).
• Commitment to long-term growth and learning opportunities.

Requirements

• Own realistic product renders for the dbrand website end to end, from engineering CAD through to final export.
• Build and maintain scene systems, so a new SKU on an existing product line comes out consistent with the rest of the catalogue in a fraction of the time.
• Create animated 3D elements for dbrand drop pages.
• Turn still-shot prep into same-day social cuts when the brief calls for it.
• Create animated 3D scenes and motion graphics for dbrand videos.
• Create ad-hoc 3D elements as needed.
• Hold both quality and schedule through peak season, when the render count runs into four figures.

Benefits

• Compensation between CA$150,000 and CA$175,000 per year based on experience.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• GRSP and profit-sharing benefits.
• Fully remote position, with HQ located a few minutes west of Pearson Airport.