Senior CGI Generalist – Beverage & Product

Senior CGI Generalist – Beverage & Product

Dippin’ Sauce | Manhattan, NYC | Hybrid (3 days in office)

About Dippin’ Sauce

Dippin’ Sauce is a creative production studio specializing in high-end visual storytelling across CGI, retouching, and emerging AI-driven workflows. We partner with leading brands and agencies to create compelling visual content for advertising campaigns.

We’re evolving how visual content gets made, combining the precision and creative control of traditional CGI with the speed and possibilities of generative AI. We’re looking for an experienced CGI artist who brings exceptional craft, technical versatility, and curiosity about the future of visual production.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior CGI Generalist with strong beverage and product visualization experience , to join our New York team and work within our 3ds Max + Houdini pipeline.

You’ll create photorealistic imagery and animation for beverage brands, taking projects from initial brief through modeling, look development, simulation, lighting, rendering, and compositing. You understand the visual demands of premium beverage advertising—from beautifully rendered packaging, glass, and aluminum to liquid, ice, condensation, and dynamic splashes. You’re comfortable moving between 3ds Max and Houdini: building, shading, and rendering product scenes in 3ds Max, and creating pours, splashes, and other liquid effects in Houdini.

You combine a strong artistic eye with technical problem-solving skills and understand what it takes to deliver polished, commercially compelling imagery. You’re also interested in exploring how traditional CGI and generative AI can work together to create new creative possibilities and more efficient production workflows.

Work arrangement: Hybrid, with three days per week in our Manhattan office and two days working remotely.

What You’ll Do

- 3ds Max + Houdini Pipeline: Work across our 3ds Max and Houdini pipeline, building and rendering scenes in 3ds Max with V-Ray and using Houdini for liquid simulation and procedural effects, moving caches and assets cleanly between the two.

- Beverage & Product Visualization: Produce high-end commercial imagery for beverage brands, including bottles, cans, packaging, glassware, and other product assets.

- Look Development: Build sophisticated shaders and materials for glass, aluminum, printed labels and foils, plastics, liquids, ice, and other surfaces.

- Lighting & Rendering: Develop polished studio and tabletop lighting setups that make glass, liquid, and metal read beautifully, with convincing reflections, refractions, and photorealistic detail.

- Liquid & Effects Simulation: Create liquid pours, splashes, condensation, droplets, foam, carbonation, and ice in Houdini, and bring them into 3ds Max for lighting and rendering as the creative brief requires.

- Modeling & Asset Creation: Build and prepare production-ready 3D assets, with attention to geometry, product details, label placement, and material accuracy.

- Compositing & Finishing: Work with multi-pass renders and compositing workflows to deliver seamless, color-accurate final imagery and animation.

- Hybrid AI/CGI Workflows: Combine traditional 3D techniques with generative AI tools for image creation, editing, compositing, and video production.

- Workflow Innovation: Explore procedural techniques, reusable assets, and emerging tools that improve creative flexibility and production efficiency.

- Creative Collaboration: Work with art directors, producers, retouchers, and fellow artists to translate briefs into exceptional finished work.

What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of professional experience in commercial CGI, 3D animation, advertising, or post-production.

- A strong portfolio demonstrating beverage and product visualization .

- Professional experience working on beverage brand accounts or beverage advertising campaigns .

- Strong working knowledge of 3ds Max and Houdini .

- Experience with V-Ray and production rendering workflows.

- Excellent understanding of lighting, shading, materials, reflections, and photorealism.

- Experience creating high-end product imagery, with an understanding of the specific visual requirements of beverage packaging and liquid.

- Hands-on experience with generative AI tools and a genuine interest in developing hybrid AI/CGI workflows.

- Strong artistic judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to take ownership of projects from brief to final delivery.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

- Advanced Houdini FX experience, including FLIP fluids, whitewater, and particle-based effects such as bubbles and carbonation; Phoenix FD is a plus.

- Experience with procedural condensation, liquid effects, and reusable product setups.

- Familiarity with EXR, multi-pass rendering, and advanced compositing.

- Experience moving data between 3ds Max and Houdini (Alembic, VDB, Houdini Engine), plus knowledge of USD, Houdini Digital Assets, and production pipeline automation.

- Experience with AI-assisted image generation, image-to-image workflows, and generative video.

Why Dippin’ Sauce?

At Dippin’ Sauce, you’ll work on ambitious campaigns for recognizable brands while helping shape the future of visual production.

We value artists who combine strong creative instincts and technical fundamentals with a willingness to experiment. You’ll be part of a collaborative team that respects the craft of traditional CGI while exploring how AI can expand what’s possible.

How to Apply

Please submit your resume and a link to your portfolio or demo reel showcasing beverage and product visualization. Include examples of liquid or FX work created in Houdini and any hybrid AI/CGI projects.

Applications must include a portfolio or demo reel to be considered.

Location: Manhattan, NYC
Work arrangement: Hybrid, three days per week in the office