Brandon Barocio

Selected work — 01

Video & motion

Vertical ad spots cut for Chicago realtors and contractors — shot or sourced, edited, captioned and graded, delivered for paid social.

Ad spots Vertical / reels Captions & motion titles Paid social delivery

North Campbell — real estateListing spot cut for a Chicago realtor. 0:58.

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServicesOpen house date-change spot cut for a brokerage campaign. 1:30.

Kitchen & bathroom remodelContractor spot — before/after remodel work. 0:33.

Drywall & paintingService reel for a Chicago contractor. 0:26.

Chicago homeownersHomeowner-targeted spot. Audio muted for this cut. 1:17.

Selected work — 02

Real estate & construction photography

Residential interiors, new builds and renovations shot for brokers and builders around Chicago — exposure-blended so the windows hold their view, verticals corrected, delivered web-ready.

Interiors HDR blending Twilight Construction progress

Living room interior with linear fireplace and picture window — **Living room**Interior lit to match the window — the neighbouring house and the trees outside stay visible instead of blowing out to white.

Open plan great room and kitchen with chandelier — **Great room**Wide open-plan shot with verticals held straight and the floor tone kept honest.

Interior at dusk with blue windows — **Dusk interior**Twilight outside balanced against interior light — the hardest exposure in this work.

Kitchen with marble backsplash and pendant lighting — **Kitchen**Second angle on the same listing, staged for the marketing set.

Entryway with black front door — **Entry**Foyer and sightline through to the living space.

New construction interior before finishing — **Construction progress**New build documented pre-finish — the same room, before the staging.

Selected work — 03

Limitless — brand identity & packaging

A complete essential-oil line built from scratch: the mark, the label system, the carton artwork, and photoreal 3D renders of the finished product before a single unit was printed.

Brand identity Packaging Dieline artwork 3D visualization

Limitless Tranquility essential oil bottle and carton, 3D render — **Tranquility — hero render**Bottle and carton modeled, lit and rendered in 3D. Used as the primary product shot.

Three Limitless essential oil SKUs with cartons — **The full line**Three SKUs — Calmness, Tranquility, Harmony — sharing one label system, separated by colour alone.

Limitless product line arranged in depth — **Range shot**Staged arrangement showing all three variants in one frame.

Limitless Tranquility carton and bottle floating — **Floating composition**Alternate angle built for social and web headers.

The markScript badge lockup — script wordmark inside a circular seal.

Flat carton dieline artwork for Limitless Tranquility — **Carton dieline**Print-ready flat artwork — panel copy, usage and precaution text, barcode and fold allowances.

Selected work — 04

Character & creature work

Personal work — modeling, sculpting, texturing and lighting. The animation side of the degree, kept sharp.

3D character: pig in a trench coat and tie — **Detective**Character model with cloth, skin texturing and dramatic single-source lighting.

3D sculpt of a horned minotaur creature — **Minotaur**Full-body anatomy sculpt — musculature, horns, surface detail.

3D sculpt of a skull-faced creature bust — **Creature bust**Head study focused on skull structure and skin over bone.

Stylized 3D character in beanie, glasses and chain — **Stylized figure**Full character build — proportions, wardrobe, accessories and materials.

ToolsModeled and sculpted in Blender and Maya. Textured, lit and rendered in-house. Backgrounds kept black so the form does the talking.

Also

Paid social & marketing

Paid social. Campaigns on Facebook and Instagram — creative built, audiences set, budgets watched, results reported. The part most designers hand off, I run myself.

Campaign samples and reporting available on request.

About

Hello — I'm Brandon.

Chicago-based designer who also models, shoots and edits. BFA in graphic design from DePaul, minor in 3D animation and VFX, class of 2023.

I'm the person a business calls when they need the whole thing handled — the identity designed, the product rendered, the spot shot and cut, the campaign actually running. Most people do one of those. I've had to do all of them, usually at once, usually on a deadline.

Capabilities

What I work in

Design

Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign
Packaging & dieline artwork
Print file prep & proofing
Identity, layout & type

3D & Motion

Blender
Maya
Product visualization
Character modeling & sculpting
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects

Photo & Marketing

Real estate photography
Lighting & retouching
Meta & Instagram ads
Campaign creative & testing
Website content & updates

Background

Experience

2022 — Present

Marketing Team

M & R Car Import Services II, INC — Chicago, IL

Design and produce the shop's print materials, build and edit ad creative and video, run the advertising, and keep the website current — working alongside technicians and customers in a busy shop.

2024 — Present

Real Estate Photography & Video

Freelance — Chicago, IL

Shoot and edit photo and video for residential listings. Lighting, framing, colour correction and web-ready delivery — scheduling, client communication and turnaround all handled myself.

Class of 2023

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

DePaul University — Chicago, IL

Minor in 3D Animation & Visual Effects. Coursework across design, modeling, animation and film production, including a VFX shoot at Cinespace Chicago.

I make the thing,
and I make it work.