When FireEye wanted to add product photography to the documentation I was initially asked to setup a studio photoshoot. To overcome some of the limitations of this process I worked with the manufacturing team to acquire product CAD files in SolidWorks. I took these drawings, converted them to STL models, did massive amounts of cleanup and created photorealistic textures. I then took the time to make each element animatable to accomodate a broad range of use cases. These are a few of the renders done with Cinema 4D and Octane.
