Beverage packaging

Packaging Design for Stella, Mike's Hard Lemonade and Bongo Don
Client
Marks
Role
3D Artist, Visualization Designer
Tools
3ds max, Vray, Adobe Photoshop
Release date
2021

This project focused on creating a collection of beverage packaging visuals for brands including Stella, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, and Bongo Don, with an emphasis on photoreal materials, branded presentation, and commercial impact. Spanning both isolated product imagery and more immersive settings, the work was designed to showcase each package with clarity and personality while maintaining a high-end, campaign-ready look. For Stella, this included a full CGI environment, with responsibility for all aspects of the image from asset creation through final rendering.

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The visual approach balanced clean packaging presentation with more atmospheric, brand-driven storytelling. Each product required careful attention to proportion, label treatment, surface finish, and lighting so the renders would feel tactile, believable, and visually polished. Across the collection, the imagery needed to adapt to different brand personalities (from bold and refreshing to premium and moody) while still maintaining a consistent standard of realism and commercial quality.
A major part of the process centered on how reflective packaging materials, printed graphics, glass, aluminum, and liquid surfaces responded under lighting. For the Stella work in particular, the fully built CGI environment helped place the product within a richer visual context, creating a more immersive image while keeping the packaging itself as the hero. The final result is a body of beverage imagery that combines strong product focus with refined art direction, resulting in visuals that feel both premium and highly marketable.