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Hi, I’m Zsolt B. Pataki—a creative professional who leads end-to-end project development and thrives on solving problems, building strong client relationships, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
I’m passionate about visual storytelling and elevating brand narratives through lighting, photography, and technical artistry. I’m proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Bridge, After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Microsoft Office, and I enjoy turning ideas into polished, on-brand outputs.
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Work Experience
Compositor / Retoucher at Dovetail Furniture
November 1, 2024 - October 6, 2025Retouched and optimized lifestyle and product imagery for e-commerce and seasonal lookbook catalogs, ensuring visual consistency across websites and promotional materials. Executed comprehensive compositing, masking, color correction, and photo manipulation workflows to enhance image quality and appeal. Used non-destructive editing techniques. Coordinated and executed in-house product photography, designing lighting setups for mini lifestyle shoots including product photos and delivering on-brand results. Leveraged AI-powered retouching tools to accelerate turnaround time while maintaining high-quality output. Collaborated closely with marketing, art direction, and product design teams to align visuals with production needs and creative objectives.
Compositor / Retoucher at DOVETAIL FURNITURE
November 1, 2024 - October 6, 2025Retouched and optimized lifestyle and product imagery for e-commerce and seasonal lookbook catalogs, ensuring visual consistency across websites and promotional materials. Executed compositing, masking, color correction, and photo manipulation workflows to enhance image quality and appeal using non-destructive editing techniques. Coordinated in-house product photography, designing lighting setups for mini lifestyle shoots including product photos and delivering on-brand results. Leveraged AI-powered retouching tools to accelerate turnaround time while maintaining high-quality output. Collaborated with marketing, art direction, and product design teams to align visuals with production needs and creative objectives.
Compositor / Retoucher at DOVETAIL FURNITURE
November 1, 2024 - October 6, 2025Retouched and optimized lifestyle and product imagery for e-commerce and seasonal lookbook catalogs, ensuring visual consistency across websites and promotional materials. Executed comprehensive compositing, masking, color correction, and photo manipulation workflows to enhance image quality and appeal using non-destructive editing techniques. Coordinated and executed in-house product photography, designing lighting setups for mini lifestyle shoots and delivering on-brand results. Leveraged AI-powered retouching tools to accelerate turnaround while maintaining high-quality output. Collaborated closely with marketing, art direction, and product design teams to align visuals with production needs and creative objectives.
Compositor / Retoucher at DOVETAIL FURNITURE
November 1, 2024 - October 6, 2025Retouched and optimized lifestyle and product imagery for e-commerce and seasonal lookbooks, ensuring visual consistency across websites and promotional materials. Executed non-destructive compositing, masking, color correction, and photo manipulation to enhance image quality. Coordinated in-house product photography, designing lighting setups for mini lifestyle shoots and delivering on-brand results. Leveraged AI-powered retouching tools to accelerate turnaround while maintaining high quality. Collaborated with marketing, art direction, and product design to align visuals with production needs and creative objectives.
Studio Assistant / Freelance Retoucher at Morrison Denim
March 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025Conducted comprehensive quality control and detailed inspections across all production stages — identifying fabric defects, stitching inconsistencies, sizing issues, and faulty hardware. Performed precise fabric cutting, removed stray threads, and applied buttons, rivets, and fashion trims to ensure assembly accuracy and product integrity. Expertly folded, tagged, and packaged garments, and accurately labeled shipments for efficient fulfillment and inventory tracking. Managed loading, unloading, and sorting of inventory to maintain organization and streamline logistics operations. Executed high-quality model image retouching for e-commerce —including color correction, resizing, masking, and removal of imperfections —to ensure brand consistency and visual appeal.
Studio Assistant / Freelance Retoucher at MORRISON DENIM
March 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025Quality control and detailed inspections across production stages—identifying fabric defects, stitching inconsistencies, sizing issues, and faulty hardware. Performed fabric cutting, removed stray threads, and applied buttons, rivets, and trims to ensure assembly accuracy and product integrity. Expertly folded, tagged, and packaged garments, and accurately labeled shipments for efficient fulfillment and inventory tracking. Managed loading, unloading, and sorting of inventory to maintain organization and streamline logistics operations. Executed high-quality model image retouching for e-commerce, including color correction, resizing, masking, and removal of imperfections to ensure brand consistency and visual appeal.
Studio Assistant / Freelance Retoucher at MORRISON DENIM
March 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025Conducted comprehensive quality control and detailed inspections across all production stages—identifying fabric defects, stitching inconsistencies, sizing issues, and faulty hardware. Performed precise fabric cutting, removed stray threads, and applied buttons, rivets, and fashion trims to ensure assembly accuracy and product integrity. Expertly folded, tagged, and packaged garments, and accurately labeled shipments for efficient fulfillment and inventory tracking. Managed loading, unloading, and sorting of inventory to maintain organization and streamline logistics operations. Executed high-quality model image retouching for e-commerce—including color correction, resizing, masking, and removal of imperfections—to ensure brand consistency and visual appeal.
Studio Assistant / Freelance Retoucher at MORRISON DENIM
March 1, 2023 - October 6, 2025Conducted comprehensive quality control and detailed inspections across production stages—identifying fabric defects, stitching inconsistencies, sizing issues, and faulty hardware. Performed precise fabric cutting, removed stray threads, and applied buttons, rivets, and fashion trims to ensure assembly accuracy and product integrity. Expertly folded, tagged, and packaged garments, and accurately labeled shipments for efficient fulfillment and inventory tracking. Managed loading, unloading, and sorting of inventory to maintain organization and streamline logistics operations. Executed high-quality model image retouching for e-commerce—including color correction, resizing, masking, and removal of imperfections—to ensure brand consistency and visual appeal.
Head of Design (Shopify e-comm store ) at Orbit Exports
February 1, 2022 - October 6, 2025Spearheaded the creation and management of a Shopify e-commerce store for a fabric and textile mill, overseeing design and product photography. Organized and executed the setup of the store’s front-end and back-end systems, including theme development, menu and navigation structure, product pages, metafields, and content. Configured essential operational features such as the payment gateway, pricing strategy, customer shipping, UPS integration, tax settings, and third-party app integration. Managed all aspects of product presentation—adding content, tags, and descriptions across a catalog of 87 fabric styles, each photographed from multiple angles in collaboration with the photography lead. Supervised lighting arrangements, established a shooting schedule, and handled image editing, including meticulous color matching. Optimized and renamed 160 web-ready images before uploading them to the Shopify inventory.
Head of Design (Shopify e-commerce store) at ORBIT EXPORTS
February 1, 2022 - October 6, 2025Spearheaded the creation and management of a Shopify e-commerce store for a fabric and textile mill, overseeing both design and product photography. Organized and executed the setup of the store’s front-end and back-end systems, including theme development, menu and navigation structure, product pages, metafields, and content. Configured essential operational features such as the payment gateway, pricing strategy, customer shipping, UPS integration, tax settings, and third-party app integration. Managed all aspects of product presentation—adding content, tags, and descriptions across a catalog of 87 fabric styles, each photographed from multiple angles in collaboration with the photography lead. Supervised lighting arrangements, established a shooting schedule, and handled image editing, including meticulous color matching. Optimized and renamed 160 web-ready images before uploading them to the Shopify inventory.
Head of Design (Shopify e-comm store) at ORBIT EXPORTS
February 1, 2022 - October 6, 2025Spearheaded the creation and management of a Shopify e-commerce store for a fabric and textile mill, overseeing both design and product photography. Organized and executed the setup of front-end and back-end systems, including theme development, menu and navigation structure, product pages, metafields, and content. Configured essential operational features such as the payment gateway, pricing strategy, customer shipping, UPS integration, tax settings, and third-party app integration. Managed all aspects of product presentation—adding content, tags, and descriptions across a catalog of 87 fabric styles, each photographed from multiple angles in collaboration with the photography lead. Supervised lighting arrangements, established a shooting schedule, and handled image editing, including meticulous color matching. Optimized and renamed 160 web-ready images before uploading them to the Shopify inventory.
Head of Design (Shopify e-commerce store) at ORBIT EXPORTS
February 1, 2022 - October 6, 2025Spearheaded the creation and management of a Shopify e-commerce store for a fabric and textile mill, overseeing both design and product photography. Organized and executed the setup of the store’s front-end and back-end systems, including theme development, menu and navigation structure, product pages, metafields, and content. Configured essential operational features such as the payment gateway, pricing strategy, customer shipping, UPS integration, tax settings, and third-party app integration. Managed all aspects of product presentation—adding content, tags, and descriptions across a catalog of 87 fabric styles, each photographed from multiple angles in collaboration with the photography lead. Supervised lighting arrangements, established a shooting schedule, and handled image editing, including meticulous color matching. Optimized and renamed 160 web-ready images before uploading them to the Shopify inventory.
Creative Director / Retoucher at Modern Bathroom
October 1, 2021 - October 6, 2025Collaborated cross-functionally to produce print layouts, in-store banners, 3D room visuals, and 360° interactive product spins for retail campaigns across nationwide stores. Retouched and processed high volumes of product photography, color correcting, cropping, resizing, masking, and batch processing to ensure image consistency across platforms. Ensured precise color matching and visual consistency of products from multiple angles and sizes, upholding strict brand and lighting standards for e-commerce assets. Managed and optimized 3D models using Cinema 4D, creating detailed lifestyle renders and applying custom texturing for products and environments. Developed 360° interactive displays to enhance online shopping experience and improve product presentation. Delivered hundreds of retouched assets for major product launches across vendor sites including Home Depot, Lowe’s, Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Build.com, and Wyndham Collection. Shot reference photos and texture samples to suppo
Creative Director/ Retoucher at MODERN BATHROOM
October 1, 2021 - October 6, 2025Collaborated cross-functionally to produce print layouts, in-store banners, 3D room visuals, and 360° interactive product spins for retail campaigns across nationwide stores. Retouched and processed high volumes of product photography, color correcting, cropping, resizing, masking, and batch processing to ensure image consistency across platforms. Ensured precise color matching and visual consistency of products from multiple angles and sizes, upholding strict brand and lighting standards for e-commerce assets. Managed and optimized 3D models using Cinema 4D, creating detailed lifestyle renders and applying custom texturing for products and environments. Developed 360° interactive displays to enhance online shopping experience and improve product presentation. Delivered hundreds of retouched assets for major product launches, distributed across vendor sites including Home Depot, Lowe's, Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Build.com, and Wyndham Collection.
Creative Director / Retoucher at MODERN BATHROOM
October 1, 2021 - October 6, 2025Collaborated cross-functionally to produce print layouts, in-store banners, 3D room visuals, and 360° interactive product spins for retail campaigns across nationwide stores. Retouched and processed high volumes of product photography, color correcting, cropping, resizing, masking, and batch processing to ensure image consistency across platforms. Ensured precise color matching and visual consistency of products from multiple angles and sizes, upholding strict brand and lighting standards for e-commerce assets. Managed and optimized 3D models using Cinema 4D, creating detailed lifestyle renders and applying custom texturing for products and environments. Developed 360° interactive displays to enhance online shopping experience and improve product presentation. Delivered hundreds of retouched assets for major product launches, distributed across vendor sites including Home Depot, Lowe's, Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Build.com, and Wyndham Collection. Created spec sheets and installation gu
Creative Director/ Retoucher at MODERN BATHROOM
October 1, 2021 - October 6, 2025Collaborated cross-functionally to produce print layouts, in-store banners, 3D room visuals, and 360° interactive product spins for retail campaigns across nationwide stores. Retouched and processed high volumes of product photography, color correcting, cropping, resizing, masking, and batch processing to ensure image consistency across platforms. Ensured precise color matching and visual consistency of products from multiple angles and sizes, upholding strict brand and lighting standards for e-commerce assets. Managed and optimized 3D models using Cinema 4D, creating detailed lifestyle renders and applying custom texturing for products and environments. Developed 360° interactive displays to enhance online shopping experience and improve product presentation. Delivered hundreds of retouched assets for major product launches, distributed across vendor sites including Home Depot, Lowe's, Wayfair, Amazon, Houzz, Build.com, and Wyndham Collection. Shot reference photos and texture sampl
Quality Control at Blue Hemisphere 3D
October 1, 2012 - October 6, 2025Using Blue Lightning 3d conversion system, captured left and right eyes of stereo generated plates. Editing footage. Rotoscoping. Tracking all folders containing DPX footage. Copying/ renaming all files using Ditto Command. Painting stereo depth map using F-Depth. Providing support to production management team. Reviewing completed footage for stereo conversion accuracy.
Quality Control at BLUE HEMISPHERE 3D
October 1, 2012 - October 6, 2025Using Blue Lightning 3D conversion system, captured left and right eyes of stereo generated plates. Edited footage, rotoscoped, tracked all folders containing DPX footage. Copied/renamed all files using Ditto Command. Painted stereo depth map using F-Depth. Provided support to production management team. Reviewed completed footage for stereo conversion accuracy.
Quality Control at BLUE HEMISPHERE 3D
October 1, 2012 - October 6, 2025Used Blue Lightning 3D conversion system to capture left and right eyes of stereo generated plates. Edited footage, rotoscoped, tracked folders containing DPX footage, renamed files, painted stereo depth maps with F-Depth, and provided support to the production management team. Reviewed completed footage for stereo conversion accuracy.
Quality Control at BLUE HEMISPHERE 3D
October 1, 2012 - October 6, 2025Using Blue Lightning 3D conversion system, captured left and right eyes of stereo generated plates. Editing footage. Rotoscoping. Tracking all folders containing DPX footage. Copying/ renaming all files using Ditto Command. Painting stereo depth map using F-Depth. Providing support to production management team. Reviewing completed footage for stereo conversion accuracy.
2D Artist/Texture Artist at Collision Studios
June 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Retouching, editing/enhancing photos. Filters, masks, strokes, set extensions, color correction, effects. Creating matte paintings, type fonts, logos and graphics for video game/ Wii console. Designing all graphic and photo elements using Photoshop and Illustrator.
2D Artist/Texture Artist at COLLISION STUDIOS
June 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Retouched and enhanced photos; created matte paintings, textures, logos and graphics for video games/Wii console. Designed all graphic and photo elements using Photoshop and Illustrator.
2D Artist / Texture Artist at COLLISION STUDIOS
June 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Retouched, edited, and enhanced photos; created matte paintings, type fonts, logos and graphics for video games/Wii; designed all graphic and photo elements using Photoshop and Illustrator.
2D Artist/Texture Artist at COLLISION STUDIOS
June 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Retouching, editing/enhancing photos. Filters, masks, strokes, set extensions, color correction, effects. Creating matte paintings, type fonts, logos and graphics for video game/ Wii console. Designing all graphic and photo elements using Photoshop and Illustrator.
Animation Assistant at Brain4est Digital
April 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Supported various studio initiatives, including conducting visual research, performing photo retouching and design, and arranging artwork and photographs within 3D animation environments. Applied techniques such as rotoscoping and matte painting to enhance visuals. Edited storyboard panels and synchronized character voice recordings with 2D animatic sequences using After Effects.
Animation Assistant at BRAIN4EST DIGITAL
April 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Supported various studio initiatives, including visual research, performing photo retouching and design, and arranging artwork within 3D animation environments. Applied techniques such as rotoscoping and matte painting to enhance visuals. Edited storyboard panels and synchronized character voice recordings with 2D animatic sequences using After Effects.
Animation Assistant at BRAIN4EST DIGITAL
April 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Supported various studio initiatives, including visual research, photo retouching and design, and arranging artwork and photographs within 3D animation environments. Applied rotoscoping and matte painting techniques; edited storyboard panels and synchronized character voice recordings with 2D animatic sequences in After Effects.
Animation Assistant at BRAIN4EST DIGITAL
April 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Supported various studio initiatives, including conducting visual research, performing photo retouching and design, and arranging artwork and photographs within 3D animation environments. Applied techniques such as rotoscoping and matte painting to enhance visuals. Edited storyboard panels and synchronized character voice recordings with 2D animatic sequences using After Effects.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles
April 1, 2008 - December 1, 2012Matte Painting Workshop at Gnomon School of Visual Effects
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2013Entertainment Design Workshop at Art Center at Night
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles
April 1, 2008 - December 1, 2012Matte Painting Workshop at GNOMON SCHOOL OF VFX
January 1, 2013 - January 1, 2013Entertainment Design Workshop at ART CENTER AT NIGHT
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles
April 1, 2008 - December 1, 2012Matte Painting Workshop at Gnomon School of Visual Effects
January 1, 2013 - October 6, 2025Entertainment Design Workshop at Art Center at Night
January 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Bachelor of Science in Media Arts and Animation at The Art Institute of California, Los Angeles
April 1, 2008 - December 1, 2012Matte Painting Workshop at Gnomon School of VFX
January 1, 2013 - October 6, 2025Entertainment Design Workshop at Art Center at Night
January 1, 2011 - October 6, 2025Qualifications
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Media & Entertainment, Retail, Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, Professional Services, Software & Internet
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