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Automated catalogue & CGI

Sixty thousand product images nobody photographed.

For: Merchandising, catalogue production, marketing ops

6 weeks → 2 days
Catalogue turnaround
61M
Variant renders served from cache
72%
Lower cost per image

The problem

A seasonal catalogue means a studio booking, physical samples that do not exist yet, a photographer, a retoucher, and a six-week lead time — repeated when a colourway changes.

What we do about it

Render the catalogue from the same asset that drives the configurator. Every angle, every colourway, every set — consistent lighting, correct materials, and regenerable in an afternoon when the range changes.

How the work runs

  1. 1

    Define the shot list as data

    Camera angles, lighting rigs and set dressing become configuration, so a shot is reproducible six months later.

  2. 2

    Match the physical sample

    Material capture against a real sample under controlled light — the step that determines whether merchandising signs off.

  3. 3

    Render at scale

    Batch rendering across the variant matrix with automated QA on colour and framing.

  4. 4

    Publish and version

    Assets land in the DAM with the configuration that produced them attached, so a re-render is a rerun, not a reshoot.

The objection we hear most

“Will it look like CGI?”

If the material capture is lazy, yes. That step is where the budget goes, and it is why we shoot against physical samples rather than eyeballing a swatch.

Proof

Where we have done this

Bring us the product you were told could not be configured.

Tell us the option count, the CAD you already have and the frame budget you need to hit. An engineer reads it and replies with a straight answer — including when the answer is that good photography would serve you better.

We reply to every enquiry within one business day, in your timezone — with a frame budget, not a brochure.