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Methanol fuel cell generator in a desert landscape

Client

Pacific Green Technologies

Programme

Fuel cell technology

Role

3D Technical Artist

Location

Middle East

Year

2026

Project Brief
One model. Every launch asset.

Pacific Green's methanol fuel cell generator is off-grid power built to replace diesel gensets on remote sites. I modelled it in Blender and produced everything it launched with. For the campaign, AI builds the world around the 3D model. For the manual, a custom Unreal Engine 5 shader turns the same model into line art. The product itself is never generated.

Marketing Assets
Campaign Key Visual

One golden-hour world, adapted for social, web and print.

Launch Film

A 15-second product film generated from the same model with Seedance 2.0.

Sales Collateral

Slides from the launch deck, built on the campaign imagery.

Render to Environment

The Unreal render goes into ComfyUI and Nano Banana Pro builds the world around it. The cabinet pixels never change.

Unreal Engine 5 → Nano Banana Pro

3D Product Design
Blender to Unreal

Modelled in Blender from manufacturing data, then lit and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.

Blender → Unreal Engine 5

Blender concept render of the Gen-X methanol fuel cell generator cabinetFinal 20 kW cabinet rendered in Unreal Engine 5
Form Development

Ventilation studies at identical camera and lighting, one variable at a time, until the brand mark and the working air intake stopped competing for the same panel.

Evolution of the Gen-X generator design across iterations
Final Cabinet

The resolved 20 kW design, modelled from manufacturing data and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.

20 kW Cabinet

20 kW methanol fuel cell generator cabinet, three-quarter studio view20 kW methanol fuel cell generator cabinet, side studio view
Illustrations for Manual
One Model, Two Outputs

The same Unreal Engine 5 scene, rendered through a custom line-art shader I built for the operation and maintenance manual. No AI — technical documentation has to match the real geometry.

Photoreal → Line-Art Shader

The Shader

The custom material behind the line art.

In the Manual

Produced for the proof-of-concept units in collaboration with the China engineering team, with numbered callouts indexed to each page's legend.

Manual Pages

Line-art manual diagram of the Gen-X generator made with a custom Unreal Engine shader
In Place
Methanol fuel cell generator in a desert landscape
Methanol fuel cell generator in a desert landscape
Methanol fuel cell generator in a desert landscape
Methanol fuel cell generator in a desert landscape
Contact

Let's Collaborate

I’m always excited to take on new and challenging work. Whether you need a brand built from the ground up, a product interface designed, or engaging 3D and motion content, I’d love to help bring it to life.

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