3D Product Rendering vs Product Photography: Which One Should You Budget For?
A photo shoot costs less on day one and more on day sixty. Here is the honest breakdown of when CGI wins, when a camera wins, and how most brands end up running both.
Practical notes on 3D product visualization, packaging design, Shopify and marketplace creative — written by the people doing the work.
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Most product page advice is decoration. This is the short list of changes that reliably shift revenue on Shopify stores — ordered by how much work they take against what they return.
Most Amazon listings are designed on a 27-inch monitor and sold on a 5-inch phone. Here is how to build an image stack that still works at the size buyers actually see it.
Packaging used to be judged at arm's length under retail lighting. Now it is judged in a search grid on a phone. That changes what the design has to do first.
Animation revisions are expensive because they arrive late. Most of that cost is avoidable, and it is avoided in the brief — before a single frame is rendered.
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