SUMMARY
3D Artist & Creative Lead with a strong background in Lighting, Look Development, and Compositing, now focused on Art Direction and Creative Direction. I have led teams through both the artistic and technical aspects of production, always striving for efficiency without compromising quality. Excellent in teamwork, able to take directions and handle responsibility, while also bringing strong leadership skills and a sharp sense for setting priorities. With a self-taught background, I combine persistence, dedication, and a keen eye for detail to inspire teams and elevate visual storytelling.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Djordje Ilic VFX, Novi Sad,Serbia Sep2025 – Present
Art Director & 3D Generalist
Spellwork, Berlin,Germany Mar2026 – Present
Computer Graphics Generalist
Stardust Effects, Oslo,Norway Nov2025 – Mar2026
Computer Graphics Generalist
Nordeus, Belgrade, Serbia Jan2024 – Sep2025
Lead 3D Artist
As Lead 3D Marketing Artist, I focused on raising visual standards while streamlining workflows to make production faster and more reliable. I introduced a render farm and optimized assets and scenes, which significantly reduced turnaround times and improved consistency. I also integrated compositing as a core part of the pipeline, highlighting its importance for achieving higher-quality and more flexible results. Alongside creative direction, I developed custom Python tools that automated key tasks and further enhanced efficiency. Most of the work was carried out in Blender, where I made extensive use of Geometry Nodes to build non-destructive, scalable solutions that supported both the artistic vision and technical needs of the team.
3Lateral, Novi Sad, Serbia Oct2020-Oct 2023
Senior Lighting/Generalist Technical Director
At 3Lateral, I contributed to the development of MetaHuman Creator, working on the main lighting presets and supporting the Mesh to MetaHuman tool. I was also involved in solving graphical challenges for the UI and generating high-quality thumbnails. From time to time, I also supported the team as a Technical Artist, helping resolve day-to-day production issues. Additionally, I had the opportunity to contribute to the BlueDot cinematic, focusing on environment creation and a bit of lighting.
Framestore, London,UK July2018-Jul 2020
Senior Environment Technical Director
As a senior artist, I had more opportunities to work closely with supervisors and leads.
Responsible for looking at sequences on different projects. I was mostly involved in solving serious technical and creative
problems and always brought fresh ideas for everything I did. I also wrote many tools to help our department in
(Nuke,Mari, and Maya/Python). These tools gave us amazing speed up and bought more time for creativity.
Film/TV Work:
• No Time to Die 007 (2020)
• His Dark Materials (2019)
• Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• The Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Digital Kraft, Belgrade, Serbia May 2018-September 2018
Asset Supervisor/Generalist Technical Director
Double Negative, London, UK May 2017-May 2018
Generalist Technical Director
In charge of main lighting rigs, light design, look development, and some texturing as well.
Responsible for solving many problems in different production stages, especially the rendering stage.
Optimized render time while keeping the same quality.
Film/TV Work:
• The Alienist (2018)
• Loro (2018)
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019 )
• Black Panther (2018)
• Altered Carbon – The Killers (2018)
• Altered Carbon – Rage in Heaven (2018)
• Black Mirror – Metalhead (2017)
Digital Kraft, Belgrade, Serbia November 2013-December 2016
Lead Lighting/ Generalist Technical Director
Responsible for look development, lighting, and rendering for multiple shots.
Creating production lighting, solving problems in production, and optimizing scenes for rendering.
Besides all the above I did modeling, uv, texturing, shading, compositing…
Film/TV Work:
•TheRift 2016
•Killer Mermaid 2014,
Commercial work:
• Hasbro StarWars, Transformers, Jurasic Park, Avangers…- NiceShoes NY
• Playmation, Reebok Activechill, Frontline, Stink Stoppers, All Powercore, Yokai – NiceShoes NY
• Smurfs , Galaxy – Super78 LA, SeeFest LA, CocaCola, Grand, Marbo, AirSerbia
Whitewaterstudio, Belgrade, Serbia April 2013-Octobar 2013
Generalist Technical Director
Responsible for Modeling,Texturing,Shading,Lighting,Rendering and Compositing for highly-detailed prints and animations,.
Collaborate with art director to ensure high level of quality.
Commercial and print work:
• Cote d’or, Samsung, CocaCola, Nissan
• Nestle, VitaeneC,GalaxySmoothMilk…
Media Plus, Belgrade, Serbia, March 2012-May 2013
Generalist Technical Director/MotionGraphic/Compositing Artist
Responsible for creating animated packshots,footage retouch,motion graphic,
2d and 3d tracking,screen replacemenet
Commercial work:
•Stark, Jaffa,JelenBeer,Marbo, GrandCoffe,Fruktal…
Spring Onion, Belgrade, Serbia, March 2011-Februar 2012
Generalist Technical Director
Responsible for creating (model, UV, and texture) for environment sets, and props.
Worked on a variety of local projects.
Commercial work:
•Fiat,Trident Strawberry Gum,Stark,Zvijezda Junior,National Lottery of Serbia,
•Grand Coffe,Konzum Character Mascot, Jelen Beer…
