PER NIEMANN
| LEAD REALTIME 3D | | UNREAL ENGINE SPECIALIST | | ART DIRECTION | | WORLD-BUILDING | | WORKFLOWS | | CONSULTING | | GAMES | | XR | | VIRTUAL PRODUCTION |
CRAFTING CINEMATIC VISUALS AND STREAMLINING WORKFLOWS
| 18+ YEARS EXPERIENCE |
| ENVIRONMENTS | ASSETS | LIGHTING | PROCEDURAL | TOOLS |
Portfolio
RECENT WORKS
AUTO MOTIVE
world building + PCG
MOOG SYNTH and more
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BIO DEGRADEABLE
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Lead Realtime 3D | UE5 Specialist
| Service
| REALTIME + VIRTUAL PRODUCTION SPECIALIST
I offer full-spectrum 3D art, world-building, and real-time visualization services backed by 15+ years of experience.
- Unreal Engine specialty — photoreal lighting and shading through expansive landscape environments.
- Scenes from sweeping digital landscapes to detailed automotive visualizations.
- Storytelling and technical excellence on every project.
| CREATIVE COLLABORATION + LEADERSHIP
From mood boards to final pixels, I shape the visual language of a project.
- Lookdev, lighting style, color scripts, and cinematic framing.
- Technical roadmap that keeps the creative vision feasible.
| FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION - REMOTE or ON-SITE
Your place or mine? I integrate with teams on-site or fully remote, bridging art and tech while keeping workflows smooth and deadlines safe.
Before After
In short, I'm here to make your vision a reality, whether that means building an immersive 3D world, lighting a cinematic scene in Unreal, or consulting on how to streamline your production. I bring a broad skill set but always focus on the areas of highest impact for your project.
SKILLSET
| FROM INDIE TO AAA
| PIPELINE SETUP + CONSULTING | PIPELINE SETUP + PROJECT CONSULTING
Designing data flows, workflows, automation, logic and version-control so teams iterate faster and assets arrive engine-ready.
| LIGHTING + RENDERING
Crafting cinematic, physically-plausible lighting in Unreal Engine 5—with hero stills rendered with pathtracing when needed.
| TEXTURING + MATERIALS
Authoring PBR materials from scan data or hand-painted layers, plus performant shader libraries for real-time use.
| AI ASSISTED WORKFLOW
Leveraging generative AI and smart prompts to accelerate concepting, UV chores and look-dev—speed without quality loss.
| MODELING + SCULPTING
Building clean-topology, animation-ready assets (hard-surface or organic) with detail exactly where the camera needs it.
| PROCEDURAL GENERATION
Using Gaea, Geometry Nodes and in-engine tools to create vast terrains and endless variations at studio scale.
| UE
#Lumen#Path Tracing#Materials#Lighting#Blueprints#PCG#Niagara#Tools
| 3D
Modelling
#Blender#3ds Max#ZBrush#Marvelous
Terrain
#Gaea#World Creator
| 2D
Substance 3D
#Designer#Painter
#Megascans#Marmoset#Photoshop#Figma
| Motion
#DaVinci Resolve
| Code
#Three.js#Babylon.js#Astro#React
| Other
#VS Code#Cursor AI#Git#Perforce#FTrack#Jira
TRUSTED BY
| 3D est. 2003
"The same eye behind my lens guides every pixel I create."
get in touch
| Contact
| Digital
| Phone
+49 (0) 151 1570 3114
pn ( at ) perniemann.com
| Analog
Hamburg
Germany
| Links
BIO
| est. 2003
I build worlds in real-time. For 18 years I've blended cinematic art direction with technical logic | shipping seven PC/console titles, spearheading XR activations for BMW, Audi and Royal Caribbean, and mentoring 40+ artists. Today I consult and create for agencies, game studios and tech innovators who need visuals that look like film and behave like code. Hamburg-based, globally available.
| Key Skills
#UE5 Worldbuilding #Lumen Lighting #Look-Dev #Pipeline Design #Creative Leadership
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Originally trained in physics at the University of Hamburg, I pivoted to 3D art at AEP Digital Arts Academy and later specialized in environment and character design at Think Tank Training Center, Vancouver. Since 2007 I've worn many hats | character artist on Velvet Assassin, senior environment artist, indie art lead, and R&D prototypes. Freelancing from 2009 onward, my credits range from high-fidelity naval training sims to TV commercials, product configurators and virtual production.
Alongside production, I taught modelling, texturing and rendering to over 40 artists at AEP, a role that shaped my mentoring style. In 2018 I co-founded artnorama , exploring gallery installations and concept art.
Most recently I co-founded aiorama , an AI consulting practice where I design agent workflows, build RAG pipelines and ship guardrails for enterprise automation | applying the same detail-obsessed mindset to large-language-model systems. On the production side, a creative Kia spot I art-directed became a studio-wide favourite.
Today I offer a rare blend of seasoned artistry, technical leadership and entrepreneurial vision. Whether it's consulting on a real-time pipeline, art-directing a cinematic teaser or building an immersive environment from scratch, I tackle each brief with passion, precision and a dash of offbeat creativity.
