Heidi Lim
Senior Industrial Designer
NVIDIA
Heidi Lim is from the Motor City and has been living in Silicon Valley for the past ten years. She is a Senior Industrial Designer, managing package design for NVIDIA’s award-winning design team. NVIDIA, a leading technology company best known for its graphics processing units (GPUs) in the gaming market, is now venturing into the AI market. NVIDIA has also expanded into consumer electronics product lines, many of which Heidi has supported. Heidi graduated from the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, one of the most prestigious design schools in the country, where she was named a Senior Select by the Product Design department.
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Senior Industrial Designer
NVIDIA
Tyler Anderson
Director & Partner
Render Weekly & Sample Studio
Render Weekly was started in 2018 by Ryan Krause and Tyler Anderson, two industrial designers finishing their undergraduate degrees in industrial design. Since then, Render Weekly has become the largest online community for industrial design rendering and continues to grow with new designers participating every week. Every week, the team creates a design prompt of their own original design and invites other designers to show their own version of the prompt. The best submissions get featured and promoted via their Instagram feed.
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Director & Partner
Render Weekly & Sample Studio
Ryan Krause
Director & Partner
Render Weekly & Sample Studio
Render Weekly was started in 2018 by Ryan Krause and Tyler Anderson, two industrial designers finishing their undergraduate degrees in industrial design. Since then, Render Weekly has become the largest online community for industrial design rendering and continues to grow with new designers participating every week. Every week, the team creates a design prompt of their own original design and invites other designers to show their own version of the prompt. The best submissions get featured and promoted via their Instagram feed.
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Director & Partner
Render Weekly & Sample Studio
Mike James
Managing Principal
TB&O
Mike James is the Managing Principal of TB&O, a creative imaging studio, located near San Francisco, California USA. In other words, Mike is the chief-cat-herder for a handful of highly creative and often over caffeinated digital artists and photographers. Mike and his team have been using KeyShot for the past 14 years to create photo-real renders of their client’s products. In addition to rendering still images, TB&O uses KeyShot to create animation, video, interactive web experiences and product configurators for their national and international clients. TB&O has been an active product photography studio for 52 years and still does traditional photography and post-production. Mike is a digital artist, modeler and photographer with a background in computer science. Every morning Mike looks forward to moving millions of pixels around to make “the unreal” photo-real.
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Managing Principal
TB&O
Oliver Yu
Digital Media Designer
PDP Gaming
Oliver Yu is an avid gamer with a love for photography, lighting, and 3D visualization. He works for PDP, a video game accessories manufacturer, where he designs and creates image and video assets for video game controllers, cases, and headsets for Sony Playstation, Microsoft Xbox, and Nintendo Switch. Originally a professional photographer, Oliver now does 3D visualization full-time, and he loves the photo-real capabilities provided in KeyShot.
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Digital Media Designer
PDP Gaming
Laura Schaefer
Senior 3D Visualizer
Urban Armor Gear
Laura uses Keyshot to rapidly and consistently generate a large volume of product marketing images for UAG's premium heavy duty cases and accessories for consumer electronics by Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Google, and more.
She appreciates Keyshot's stylistic flexibility and numerically precise settings for creating custom materials, camera compositions, and lighting environments to render accurate digital representations of the innovative material combinations used in UAG's ever-evolving industrial designs.
With a strong foundation in both traditional and digital arts, including painting, sculpting, photography, illustration, branding, and packaging design, Laura combines these skills with Keyshot to produce elegantly stylized visuals that enhance product feature legibility which serves a huge role in the company's growing success.
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Senior 3D Visualizer
Urban Armor Gear
Ducky Qiang
Toy Designer
MerchSource
Ducky Qiang graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. She is currently working as a toy designer at MerchSource and specializes in all toy categories, including plush, wood, preschool, STEM, creativity, and girls' fashion. In addition, she researches, designs, and 3D models toys for FAO Schwarz, Geoffrey's Toy Box, and Discovery.
She is passionate about character design, plush design, and storytelling. With each of her designs, she aims to bring people a moment of happiness and excitement in their busy lives.
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Toy Designer
MerchSource
Melissa Henley
Chief Customer Officer
KeyShot
Melissa Henley is Chief Customer Officer at KeyShot, the global leader of product design rendering software. Her professional interests include building customer community, change management, leadership and culture, and digital transformation. When Melissa’s not in the office, she’s traveling to conferences and customer events helping professionals learn to drive their technology projects forward — for both internal and external customers.
Melissa, an award-winning author, has been named a CMSWire Top Contributor three times. She has over 20 years of experience in customer experience, customer success, and branding and communication from a variety of industries, including software, higher education and finance.
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Chief Customer Officer
KeyShot
Jimin Ham
Senior Customer Success Manager
KeyShot
Jimin Ham is a Senior Customer Success Manager who builds relationships with customers to ensure that they get the most value out of KeyShot. Jimin has worked in various industries, including finance, medical and telecommunications before joining KeyShot.
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Senior Customer Success Manager
KeyShot
Garin Gardiner
Sr. Product Manager
KeyShot
Garin Gardiner is an experienced leader in the industry of CAD and CAM with exceptional knowledge of Autodesk Fusion 360 and Inventor. He is known specifically for achievements in product management, business development, marketing and technical sales with a passion for creativity, cutting-edge solutions and futurist thinking. He is regularly sought-out to direct projects requiring critical thinking and sensitive collaborations with both internal cross-divisional teams or external high-profile customers and is a staple in delivering industry messaging through event speaking, teaching, publications, and executive engagement.
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Sr. Product Manager
KeyShot
Don Tuttle
Global Training Specialist
KeyShot
Don Tuttle
Global Training Specialist, Luxion
Don Tuttle is a passionate digital artist with 22 years of experience leading design teams and creating 3D product renderings for brands like HP and OtterBox. As a senior 3D artist and team leader, he has trained industrial designers, CMF teams, engineers, and marketing directors. Don’s trainees especially appreciate his expertise in crafting effective processes and workflows using KeyShot.
Training others to become KeyShot experts and move on to rewarding careers gives Don a great sense of satisfaction. He often says: “Their success is my success.”
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Global Training Specialist
KeyShot
Jordan Doane
Solutions Consultant
KeyShot
Jordan Doane has been a fan and user of KeyShot for over a decade and was first introduced to the product while working on tattoo machines. His knowledge and enthusiasm for the product is evident when demoing the software to prospects and new users alike. Over the past eight years, Jordan has had different roles at KeyShot and is currently a Solutions Consultant demos, support and training.
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Solutions Consultant
KeyShot
Nick Abbott
Education Program Manager
KeyShot
Nick Abbott is a seasoned Industrial Designer with a rich five-year journey in the field. He has contributed to numerous projects for prominent clients, constantly expanding his creative horizons and refining his product design skills. Nick’s versatility led him to co-teach a design course at ASU, which paved the way for his latest endeavor as the Education Program Manager at KeyShot.
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Education Program Manager
KeyShot