Senior CGI Generalist - Automotive & Product

Senior CGI Generalist - Automotive & Product Dippin' Sauce | Manhattan, NYC | Hybrid (3 days in office) The Role We're looking for a Senior CGI Generalist with strong automotive and product visualization experience, specifically for beverage brands, to join our New York team. You'll create photorealistic imagery and animation across automotive and product advertising, taking projects from initial brief through modeling, look development, lighting, rendering, and compositing. For beverage clients, you understand the visual demands of premium product advertising-from beautifully rendered packaging, glass, and aluminum to liquid, ice, condensation, and dynamic splashes. You combine a strong artistic eye with technical problem-solving skills and understand what it takes to deliver polished, commercially compelling imagery. You're also interested in exploring how traditional CGI and generative AI can work together to create new creative possibilities and more efficient production workflows. Work arrangement: Hybrid, with three days per week in our Manhattan office and two days working remotely. What You'll Do • Automotive CGI: Create photorealistic vehicle imagery and animation, including materials, reflections, lighting, environments, and seamless integration into photographic backgrounds. • Beverage & Product Visualization: Produce high-end commercial imagery for beverage brands, including bottles, cans, packaging, glassware, and other product assets. • Look Development: Build sophisticated shaders and materials for automotive finishes, glass, aluminum, plastics, liquids, ice, and other surfaces. • Lighting & Rendering: Develop polished studio and environmental lighting setups that deliver convincing materials, reflections, refractions, and photorealistic detail. • Liquid & Environmental Effects: Create or integrate liquid pours, splashes, condensation, droplets, foam, carbonation, and other effects where required by the creative brief. • Modeling & Asset Creation: Build and prepare production-ready 3D assets, with attention to geometry, product details, label placement, and material accuracy. • Compositing & Finishing: Work with multi-pass renders and compositing workflows to deliver seamless, color-accurate final imagery and animation. • Hybrid AI/CGI Workflows: Combine traditional 3D techniques with generative AI tools for image creation, editing, compositing, and video production. • Workflow Innovation: Explore procedural techniques, reusable assets, and emerging tools that improve creative flexibility and production efficiency. • Creative Collaboration: Work with art directors, producers, retouchers, and fellow artists to translate briefs into exceptional finished work. What We're Looking For • 5+ years of professional experience in commercial CGI, 3D animation, advertising, or post-production. • A strong portfolio demonstrating both automotive CGI and product visualization. • Professional experience working on beverage brand accounts or beverage advertising campaigns. • Strong working knowledge of 3ds Max, and Houdini. • Experience with V-Ray and production rendering workflows. • Excellent understanding of lighting, shading, materials, reflections, and photorealism. • Experience creating high-end product imagery, with an understanding of the specific visual requirements of beverage packaging and liquid. • Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and a genuine interest in developing hybrid AI/CGI workflows. • Strong artistic judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to take ownership of projects from brief to final delivery. • Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with fluid simulation tools such as Houdini or Phoenix FD. • Experience with procedural condensation, liquid effects, and reusable product setups. • Familiarity with EXR, multi-pass rendering, and advanced compositing. • Knowledge of USD, procedural workflows, and production pipeline automation. • Experience with AI-assisted image generation, image-to-image workflows, and generative video. How to Apply Please submit your resume and a link to your portfolio or demo reel showcasing both automotive CGI and product visualization. Include examples of work for beverage brands and any hybrid AI/CGI projects. Applications must include a portfolio or demo reel to be considered. Location: Manhattan, NYC Work arrangement: Hybrid, three days per week in the office Salary: $120,000-$135,000 per year commensurate with experience. Full time role includes unlimited PTO, health benefits through Anthem BCBS, 401k match, and the best snacks around.