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Curriculum Vitae

Burak Emre Arslan

3D/CGI Artist & Computational Designer


Summary

Architect-trained 3D/CGI Artist and Product & Computational Designer (8 years). Produces photoreal product visualization and architectural visualization for Hudson Furniture, Decortie, Interezza, Bianos using PBR workflows. Has evolved into end-to-end product design and UX architecture practice — designed and shipped KombinApp end-to-end in 4 weeks via AI/ML-assisted development.

Flagship Independent Project

KombinApp Product & Computational Designer · Independent · 2026

End-to-end product design and UX architecture: defined the entire product vision, user experience, content strategy, data model, and system architecture for a fashion outfit-recommendation app; delegated implementation to AI/ML-assisted development tools. Shipped a user-ready product in roughly four weeks.

Experience

Independent 3D/CGI Artist Freelance — Istanbul, Türkiye 2018 – Present
  • Photoreal product visualization and architectural visualization for Hudson Furniture (US), Decortie, Interezza, Bianos using PBR workflows.
  • Scan-to-CGI pipeline: 3D scanning physical products into digital, retopology, manual UVs and PBR texturing.
  • Professional fabric scanning + AI-assisted PBR material library.
  • Nfinite-trained workflows for AR/VR asset production.

Selected Clients

Hudson Furniture · Decortie · Interezza · Bianos · (and other global furniture brands)

Signature Workflows

  • Scan-to-CGI Pipeline (3D digitization, photoreal asset production) — 3D scanner + retopology + PBR texturing workflow.
  • Fabric PBR Pipeline (fabric scanning, AI-assisted material conversion) — Professional fabric scanning + AI-assisted tileable PBR.
  • AR-Ready Asset Production (Nfinite-trained, glTF/USDZ) — Nfinite-trained AR-compatible asset production.
  • AI-Assisted Product Direction (KombinApp pattern) — Designer-led shipping model applied in KombinApp.

Technical Skills

3D & Rendering
3ds Max · Blender · Unreal Engine 5 · Corona Renderer · Cinema 4D
Computational & AI
ComfyUI · Ollama · n8n · AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code) · Structured prompting for VLM/LLM pipelines
Digital Fabrication
Phrozen Mega 8KS (MSLA) · Bambu P1S (FDM) · 3D scanning · Laser tools
Color & Hardware
ProArt display · Spyder calibration · 3Dconnexion CadMouse

Other Independent Projects

Artisan Keycaps & Keyboard Cases

Mechanical keyboard keycaps and cases produced using concrete, stone dust and epoxy with MSLA 3D printing.

Education

Bachelor of Architecture · 2018

Certifications

PBR & AR Workflow Certification · Nfinite (France) · 2022

Languages

Turkish (Native) · English (Professional working)