Lead 3D Artist & Creative DirectorRiga, Latvia

Gunārs Dejus

I take 3D projects from first idea to final delivery: animation, VFX, real-time environments and interactive installations for brands, musicians and museums.

  • 50M+views on my social content
  • 100K+followers
  • 6+years in 3D
  • Story Hub
  • Ventspils Museum
  • KFC
  • bbno$
  • Physical Addons
  • Scamp
  • Sadfriendd
  • Broke Records
  • Rap Nation
  • 1nonly
  • Savage Ga$p
  • YNG Martyr
  • Xanakin Skywok
  • Almost Friday
  • Tautumeitas
  • CBTM
  • Wiesulis
  • MJL Development
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Selected work

Creative direction and studio projects

  • Telescope installation
  • Sail projection

01Museum exhibition · 2025–2026

Ventspils Museum

A six-month production for the Ventspils Museum exhibition, delivered with Story Hub: animations, projection content, interactive installations and game assets for two exhibition games. I led the GOEX team, set the visual direction and was the main contact for the client.

Client
Story Hub SIA for the Ventspils Museum
Role
Lead 3D Artist, Art Lead, main client contact
Studio
GOEX Studio
Year
2025–2026

The pieces shown here are the ones I made myself. Other parts of the project were created by the team under my creative direction.

  • Arena & crowd
  • Courtside
  • Court level
  • Locker room
  • Locker room · Tactics board
  • Locker room · Jersey wall

Environments

I made all of the game’s environments, including the GOEX Arena. The three below are based on real locations and were built closely following reference.

Pripyat gym

Pripyat, Ukraine

Pigalle Duperré

Paris, France

Tenement Taguig

Taguig, Philippines

02In-house game · Unity

Pickup Basketball

GOEX Studio’s in-house third-person basketball game for PC, pairing realistic movement with a stylised, arcade look. I built the environments and a 7,000-instance crowd system in Unity, produced assets, directed the motion-capture sessions and cleaned up the animations for the motion-matching system, and had an active hand in gameplay design.

Role
Lead 3D Artist
Studio
GOEX Studio
Tools
Unity, Blender, Rokoko Studio, Cascadeur

033D ad · Creative direction

Betsson Casino

An animated 3D advertisement for Betsson’s casino, produced at GOEX Studio. As creative director I developed the concept and visual style of the ad and led the team through production to the finished video.

Role
Creative Director
Studio
GOEX Studio
  • Informational version

04Concept · Creative direction

IKEA chair concept

A concept we created for IKEA while they were exploring new ideas for presenting their products. We developed two directions around the assembly of the same flat-pack chair: an animated concept video and a clean, informational version in the spirit of an assembly guide.

Role
Creative Director
Studio
GOEX Studio
02

Freelance work

Animation, VFX and visualisation for brands, musicians and developers

Brands & music

07

Tautumeitas — “Spīguļo, Saulīt”

Official lyric video · 4:24 · 2026

Official lyric video for the Latvian band Tautumeitas. I took the project on at very short notice and delivered the full 4:24-minute video in 72 hours, from first idea to final render.

Watch on YouTube

Wiesulis — Gauja Festival

VFX · 2025

Integration of a 3D picture frame into musician Wiesulis’ promotional video for the Gauja Festival.

Physical Addons — Summer sale

Promo video · 2025

Promotional video for the Physical Addons summer sale.

KFC

Social media ad · 2025

3D social media ad for KFC.

Bālais — T-shirt prototype

3D product visual · 2022

3D prototype visualisation of a T-shirt for the clothing brand Bālais.

Steps — “Slikc Sunc”

Concert visuals · 2022

3D visuals for the debut concert of Steps’ album “Slikc Sunc”.

Latvijas Tehnoloģiskais centrs — arena LED banner

Motion design

Animated logo ad played on the LED ribbon boards of a hockey arena.

Freelance VFX work

02

Visual effects and 3D scene transitions for the short film “Rokas Kabatās”, directed by Valters Kaulakāns (2024).

Architectural visualisation

07

Visualisations for real estate developers and private clients, made together with architects and interior designers (2022–2024).

03

Social collaborations

Stylised PS1/PS2-style animations for musicians, record labels and brands

04

Personal work

Experiments, stills and 3D scans

Animation & VFX

10

Rendered stills

07

Photogrammetry

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About

Recent experience

  1. 10/2025 – presentLead 3D Artist / Animation Studio ManagerGOEXANIMO SIA (GOEX Studio), Riga, Latvia
  2. 01/2020 – present3D Animator / Content Creator for social mediaSelf-employed
  3. 04/2026Music Video Creation (Freelance)Latvian band “Tautumeitas”
  4. 02/2025 – 10/2025Freelance 3D Animator for musicians and brandsVarious clients in the USA, Australia and Latvia
  5. 06/2024 – 08/2024VFX (Freelance)Short film “Rokas Kabatās”, directed by Valters Kaulakāns
  6. 06/2022 – 08/2024Architectural and Interior 3D Visualisation ArtistMJL Development SIA and others

Details

Based in
Riga, Latvia
Languages
Latvian, English (C1), Russian (A2)
Studies
Computer Science, Ventspils University of Applied Sciences
Music
Trained trumpet player (Liepāja Secondary School of Music, Art and Design); composition and sound design in Ableton Live
Core tools
Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine 5, Rokoko Studio, Cascadeur, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve
Code
AI-assisted (Claude)

06Contact

Let’s make something together.

Open to studio and freelance projects: 3D animation, VFX, real-time and interactive work. The fastest way to reach me is email.

gunars.dejus@gmail.com