cape town issue 431

Oct 2013

Juan Stockenstroom – Creative Retouching & CGI

Cape Town - Post Production, CGI & AI

Juan Stockenstroom is an award-winning creative high-end retoucher based in Cape Town. With a background in photographic lighting and art, he moved to the United Kingdom in 2004 to pursue a career as a retoucher. He spent a number of years working in some of London's prestigious post-production houses where he gained an immense amount of knowledge and experience.

Juan returned to South Africa in 2011 and now runs a creative studio in the heart of Cape Town, working with both local and international clients and brands. He offers a bespoke image and visual content creation service and works one-on-one with art directors, photographers and brands to create stunning imagery and campaigns for the global market. He uses photography, retouching and CGI to bring to life visual ideas from concept to final delivery for print and Web.

Juan's work includes complex multi-part compositing, general image refinement, beauty and fashion retouching, CGI and high-end colour grading.