PHOTO POST PRODUCTION & CGI Feb 2016

Alexey Adamitsky is an art director and retouch artist. The owner of Asiris Creative studio, he is known for his passion, unique vision, and excellence in executing his work.

Alexey is extremely experienced in producing complex hair images for a range of advertising campaigns. He knows how to achieve flawless perfection for beauty images and create a special mood for fashion stories. Lately, Alexey has been more involved in producing creative still life images for well-known brands.

His clients stress that Alexey is great to work with -  he knows how to listen and execute according to the plan, making sure they get what they requested and often, a lot more!

Alexey has produced work for brands including L'Oréal, Pantene, L'Occitane, Schwarzkopf, Wella and Maybeline, to name a few. His work has also been published in many renowned magazines including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Zink, Lürzer's Archive, and more.

Bitfire Inc. is a boutique digital imaging studio offering on-­site expertise in capture, retouching, archiving, fine art printing and proofing. This consolidated suite of services makes the studio especially strong at rapid turnarounds that deliver a complete, high-quality product.

Bitfire was founded by expert retoucher and digital tech, Clint Hild, with the professional photographer in mind.

Through constant research and decades of pushing industry standards, Bitfire has crafted a digital imaging process that flows seamlessly from creation through retouching to final proofing and archiving.

The Blue Studios is composed of four departments: re-production, film, photography, and White Post for CGI post-production.

Every department has its own dedicated expert who is responable for achieving the best results as well as educating future professionals.

The CGI department gives pictures a clean and individual look. When handled by experienced aritsts post-production can 'ennoble' pictures, creating new eye-catching details and inventing new realities. Ultimately, it takes the photography to new dimensions.

The Blue Studios is based in Hanover, Germany, and within its workspace of over 800m² the team realises outstanding projects.

So many exciting projects for the team at CircleMedia to choose from for this Spotlight. Those that made the final cut include:

• Full CGI campaign for Ford, commissioned by Blue Hive London, featuring some of the brand's most iconic cars.
• CGI shots of the new Porsche 718 Boxster, shot by Stephan Romer for Keko, Frankfurt.
• CGI environments to accompany Trigger's studio photography of the new Rolls Royce Dawn.
• Post-Production on before/after shots of Land Rover's custom vehicles from the latest James Bond film, shot by James Callaghan.
• Still life CGI of the exquisite Lalique for Bentley Crystal Edition fragrance.
• Personal work with photographer Kelvin Murray, bringing a child's imagination to life with a CGI Spiderman.

Visit CircleMedia’s website or Behance page for more from each campaign.

"We do cars!" Emerging as one of the ‘go to’ leaders in creating visually arresting automotive imagery for advertising and brochure assets, Curve Digital utilises current photographic retouching techniques and next level CGI technology seamlessly to deliver a strong message.

"We don't just do cars!" Not wishing to be pigeon holed, the company's portfolio spans many genre’s including cosmetics and people retouching, including a recent project with the Stade Toulouse rugby team for Peugeot. The company arranges pixels for many top brands, regardless of whether they have wheels or not!

Check out the website for more examples of work.

Featherwax is a boutique CGI and creative retouching studio based in London.

Clients range from smaller brands to industry leaders such as Instagram, Samsung and McDonald's.

"We focus on the concept as much as the finished image, and are always happy to provide creative input. If you need a quote, or just want to learn more about what we do, please email us."

"The GBRS success train keeps on rolling at full steam!" Gerard's year has started with him landing two new clients, adding to his already impressive client list. He is currently working on his first Vogue shoot with Morgan Norman and has recently completed work for Stockholm fashion week with the brilliant still life photographer Magnus Torsne. Gerard has begun to work on imagery for the high-end fashion store NK Stockholm and their in store fashion magazine.

His relationship with ES Magazine and Tobi Jenkins in London grows ever stronger, having finished the year with a massive six-page high-end gift guide over Christmas.

Gerard says he feels confident it will continue because people seem to like his “ask the right questions from the start” attitude. He successfully delivers every time, mostly beyond anything his clients could envisage. He’s a happy creative retoucher."

Manuel Santos was born in Mexico City in 1969. A graduate of the Escuela Activa de Fotografía in Mexico City, he is focused on taking pictures in the studio and realising 3D and CGI imagery.

Always interested in getting new challenges, Manuel works to achieve his own goals while also satisfying his customers' needs.

From an early age, he has been linked to radio controlled flight, so he decided to take advantage of these skills and started using drones in order to take aerial photography and video.

Manuel has taught classes, courses and workshops related to the language of the image, photography, lighting, the impact of campaigns on the consumer, the generation of 3D images, CGI and video workflow. Over the last 15 years he has also worked as freelancer with major advertising agencies and direct clients in Mexico City.

Based in Warsaw, Holubowicz Postproduction Studio provides high-end services including CGI, creative image compositing, retouching for print and colour grading for video.

The company's continuing success was recognised in Lürzer's Archive '200 Best Digital Artists 2015/2016' as well as through numerous awards at Cannes Lions, Golden Drums and ADC.

An impressive knowledge of advertising, people, food, liquid, still life, product, beauty, fashion and landscape imaging makes the studio a reliable and versatile partner.

Clients include advertising agencies, producers, photographers and manufacturers such as BMW, Lexus, Mercedes, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Samsung, Nike, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and many more.

Ingreme is an award-winning full service post-production company established in the heart of Lisbon since 1993. Offering a complete service of post-production, Ingreme performs at the hightest levels of excellency.

Planning and development, 2D/3D animations, digital effects, audio production, colour grading and compositing are areas of expertise for the company, with clients across advertising, movies and the music industry from around the globe.

Ingreme's VFX breakthroughs were recently acomplished for Nissan Crossover by recreating a specific city and two CG car models so that the camera could make impossible transitions. Many other projects have proven to be real challenges, such as handling four Terabytes of particles for Água das Pedras, discovering a city beneath a desert, or creating a full digital boat in the middle of a storm for CTBC Bank.

In early 2015 Rockarts Imaging became Joern Schmidt Postproduction. The company name and logo may have changed, but everything else remains the same.

Joern Schmidt Postproduction stands for providing high class digital retouching, make cool projects look a little more cooler and sometimes just make a silk purse from a sow's ear!

Although JSP serves many different genres, its main focus is on transportation. For last few years, most of the company's projects were completed for the car industry and include many of the major - and minor - auto-makers from around the world.

Meghan Paddock Farrell has been retouching professionally since 2001, when she took her first job out of college working in the industry. Over the past 15 years she has honed her skills and deepened her understanding of how to bend pixels to her will. Her skin work is always flawless but with such natural textures that it looks untouched.

In addition to working with skin and hair Meghan is also one of the few retouchers who can work with extremely high resolution giga-pixel imagery, rebuilding architecture and stitching errors. Her background in fine art and oil painting inform her ability to paint with light onto the surface of an image and transform a photograph from “good" to “amazing".

Picsera is the editing answer to today’s fast-paced world of digital photography. Built for for business, Picsera’s service is user friendly, affordable and completely custom. 

"After a shoot, send us your images and our editors will choose your best shots and colour correct them. If you sell products online, send us your photos and we will turn your backgrounds white and retouch your products. Shoot portraits? Upload your RAW files after a shoot and our retouch artists will take your images from good to great!"

Picsera can also work on projects such as photo editing, retouching, clipping paths and background removal, colour correction, and artistic styling, renaming, key wording, album design, slide show design and much more.

Watch the videos and visit Picsera's website for more information.

Ruben Tresserras provides high-end photo retouching and realistic CGI services.

Based in Barcelona, Ruben specialises in creative retouching for advertising imagery and automotive retouching. Always keeping a photo-realistic approach to the images as well as a keen eye for the smallest details, he uses a combination of digital retouching techniques, CGI and photography.

Involved in every part of the project, Ruben can assist during pre-production and capture, and works closely with clients during post-production to provide custom-made solutions for every production.

Visit his website for more information or email with any further questions.

sElves is a Shanghai-based post-production studio specialising in fashion and beauty retouching.

Since 2011, sElves Shanghai has been working with many successful image makers in China, with clients both local and international including Adidas, C&A, Sephora and Ponds.

"We promise each job we undertake will be handled with the highest care, both technically and aesthetically. You can enjoy London-renowned high quality services right here in China!"

Visit the website for more information.

Stefan Lampe Studios stands for high-end photo retouching, creative post and photo-realistic CGI.

Together with photographer Torsten Klinkow, Stefan Lampe Studios recently finalised new BMW x1 and GTS CGI images. The studios also realised CGI architecture for BMW's digital energy solutions webpage with agency Ligalux, Munich, and illustrated a Mercedes CLA breaking through a glass wall for BBDO China.

Recent clients include BMW, Porsche, Skoda, T-System and ING DiBa.

Visit the website to see more.

New York-based Velvet Robot is a precision post-production team working globally "with a velvety touch."

Clients include BBDO, Cramer-Krasselt (C-K), Vitro, Momentum, Anomaly, Sony, Coca-Cola, M&Ms, Patron, Asics, Adidas, Reebok, Svedka and Smirnoff.

"Providing technical prowess bridled with creative vision, precision post-production delivered without drama.”

2015 was a busy year for Wilma Studios, with many major product updates for Bentley Motors’ print and online imagery along with some interesting CGI set builds for Hyundai. 2016 is looking promising too with some fantastic new work due to release for Maserati.

The team’s broad and long-standing experience in high-end digital image design has enhanced multi-national campaigns for clients including Audi, Bentley, BT, JC Decaux, Lexus, National Grid, Range Rover and some of the world’s leading agencies.

Wilma Studios specialises in providing expert CGI and high-end digital retouching services for print, interactive media, photographers and the international advertising industry. They produce breath-taking imagery that meets the demands of the modern, integrated creative industries, from traditional print through to the leading-edge of interactive media.