Philipp Ries is a CGI artist & creative director based in Berlin.

Since 2015 he has been building cinematic worlds for campaigns, stages and screens.
His work runs from global brand films to the largest LED venues in the world.

End to end or one part of it.
Full pipeline on my own, from brief to final render.
Or one part inside an existing team.

hello@philippries.com

Direction

Concept.
Art direction.
Visual research.
Storyboarding.
Previsualisation.
Style frames.
Pitch visuals.

CGI & Animation

3D modelling.
Look development.
Lighting & rendering.
3D animation.
Motion design.
Simulation.
Environment design.

Production & Formats

VFX supervision.
3D scanning.
Compositing.
Product visualisation.
FOOH & CGI ads.
Immersive & large format.
AI-assisted pipelines.

Tools

Cinema 4D · Octane · Adobe Creative Cloud · Marvelous Designer · Substance Designer · EmberGen · LiquidGen · World Creator · Cascadeur · Photogrammetry· ComfyUI · Midjourney · Stable Diffusion · Kling · Seedance · Runway · Weavy · Topaz

Exhibitions & Publications

2025 · Superpop, seoul – korea
2024 · Forward Festival, Speaker
2023 · Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg
2023 · Futur Festival, Torino
2023 · Porto Urbano,Turin
2023 · Computer Generated, Art Book
2023 · Forward Festival, Speaker
2022 · NDR & ARD, TV Interview
2022 · Business Punk, Interview
2022 · Brand eins, Interview
2022 · German AI Award, Speaker

2022 · Forward Festival, Speaker
2022 · KantGaragen, Stilwerk, Berlin
2022 · 48H, Kunsthalle Rostock
2022 · No28, Soho House, Paris
2022 · Misa x OMR, Hamburg
2022 · Artbeam, Munich
2021 · Dropbox, Interview
2021 · Business Punk, Interview
2021 · Monopol Magazine, Interview
2021 · Rumfoords, Interview
2021 · Title Mag, Interview

2021 · Tip Berlin, Interview
2021 · Doperadcool, Interview
2021 · Visionaries, Portrait
2020 · Neusupercreativ, Podcast Interview
2018 · Subli_me, the wrong, Brazil
2017 · Cyber, Glitch, Bristol · UK
2017 · Into more, Interview
2016 · sadgif, Glasshouse, New York
2016 · sadgif, Floodwall Studio, Virginia
2016 · Vice Creators , Interview
2016 · Hourhouse, Interview
2016 · Format, Interview

Selected Clients

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