Featured Designer

Guillaume Combeaud — Motion Designer

Featured work 3D Design / Nike

Guillaume Combeaud is a French freelance 3D motion designer and director known for bold, technically precise brand work for Nike, Ubisoft, and The North Face.

Across 12 catalogued projects, Guillaume's range covers Crea 2016, Car Project, Osheaga, Openning Title and more, with every entry pointing to the artist's original source rather than a rehosted copy. The set runs through 3D Design / Nike, REEL, Essilor, Ubisoft, among others, and every thumbnail sends you to the artist's site, not a reposted file. Full reels, case studies, and contact details live at guillaumecombeaud.com, instagram.com; this page works as an editorial index pointing toward those primary sources.

You'll also find 2 of Guillaume's styleframes broken out separately, linked from the section below. Keeping Guillaume's page tied to specific works rather than a generic style taxonomy is a bias toward the particular this publication has tried to hold onto.

Guillaume Combeaud is a freelance 3D motion designer and director based in France, and his client list is the kind most artists spend a career building toward: Nike, Ubisoft, Essilor, The North Face, and Bud Light among them. For Ubisoft he directed the showcase video for the Assassin's Creed fifteenth-anniversary, and on Far Cry 6 he handled 3D smoke simulation in EmberGen before compositing it in After Effects. That pairing, a heavy simulation tool feeding a clean composite, is a signature of how he works.

His style leans on bold visual storytelling that hides its technical complexity. The renders look effortless, which is exactly the tell of someone who knows the pipeline cold. More recently he has folded AI-driven exploration into his look-development process, using it as one more tool for finding an image rather than a shortcut around craft.

We feature Combeaud because his broadcast and brand frames are a masterclass in restraint at scale. Watch how a single kinetic element carries a frame while everything else holds still, the same discipline that makes a good loading state read as fast instead of noisy. His portfolio at guillaumecombeaud.com and his Instagram document the full range, from fashion and music to live events and game cinematics, and they are worth a slow look for anyone learning to make heavy 3D feel light.