The studio behind the renders

3D Jewelry Model is a small team of CAD modelers and render artists who work only on jewelry. Based in 205-B Shivalik Western, L.P. Savani Road, Adajan, Surat, Gujarat 395009, India, delivering to brands, factories, stores and designers worldwide.

We started in 2017 inside a jewelry manufacturing office, rendering the factory's own CAD files so the sales team had something better than grey screenshots to show buyers. The renders worked. Buyers ordered designs that had never been cast.

Other factories asked who made the images, and the studio grew from there. Nine years later we have delivered more than 12,000 renders for brands, manufacturers, online stores, and independent designers.

Jewelry is all we do. That matters, because jewelry rendering is a strange specialty. The pieces are tiny, the materials are the most reflective on earth, and buyers judge images against a lifetime of looking at real gold. A generalist 3D artist gets metal roughness wrong and nobody can say why the image feels fake. We can say why.

Every render that leaves the studio is checked by someone with bench experience before delivery. If a prong looks too thin to hold its stone, we flag it, because our clients' factories have to build what we show.

render of two yellow gold rings, a diamond eternity band standing on edge behind an oval solitaire, on a grey reflective surface
Eternity band and oval solitaire / 18k yellow / studio render
01 renders delivered
12,000+
02 brands and manufacturers served
340+
03 years rendering jewelry
9
04 standard turnaround
48h
How the studio works

Eight lines in the book, per job.

Nothing here is a surprise to a jeweller. It is written down because most studios will not tell you what actually happens to your file between upload and delivery.

  1. 01

    Intake day 0

    Your file lands in a dated folder. 3DM, STL, OBJ, STEP — or a phone photo of a piece in a case. You get a scope and a price back within one business day, before anything is opened in anger.

  2. 02

    Triage day 0

    Every CAD file is read before it is rendered. Naked edges, flipped normals, faceted STL meshes, stones sitting below their seats. Archive files usually have at least one of the four, and a render will happily show all of them.

  3. 03

    Model or repair day 1

    No CAD? We model the piece in Rhino or Matrix. Broken CAD? We rebuild the surfaces. Either way you approve the geometry before a single pixel is rendered, because geometry is the expensive thing to change later.

  4. 04

    Materials day 1

    18k yellow, 14k rose, rhodium-plated white, platinum. Each metal is a measured material with its own reflectance, not a colour slider. Stones carry the dispersion of the thing they actually are — diamond, moissanite, and lab-grown do not behave alike.

  5. 05

    Lighting day 1

    Lighting is built per piece, not pulled from a preset. A pavé band and a cathedral solitaire do not want the same softbox: one needs a broad source to keep the melee alive, the other needs a hard one to get fire out of the table.

  6. 06

    Preview day 1–2

    You see a low-resolution preview before we commit final frames. Two revision rounds are included in every order. Most jobs are approved on the first look, which is the entire point of showing the preview.

  7. 07

    Bench check day 2

    The render is checked against the spec by someone with bench experience: prong count, girdle thickness, seat depth, wall thickness. If a prong looks too thin to hold its stone, we flag it — your factory has to build what we show.

  8. 08

    Delivery day 2

    Final images at 3000 × 3000 px or larger, in JPG, transparent PNG and layered TIFF, named with your SKU codes. The CAD file stays yours: full rights transfer on final payment, including the source geometry.

The same eight lines, with file specs and timelines, are laid out on the process page. Prices for each are on pricing.

The honest comparison

Why renders beat photography for jewelry.

Not for everything. For catalog and product-page images of pieces that exist as CAD, rendering wins on every axis that costs you money.

What has to exist The finished piece. Cast, set, polished, insured, couriered to a studio. A CAD file. Nothing has to be made in metal before the image exists.
Metal variants One shoot per metal. Three golds means three of everything. One model, every metal. Each extra metal colour is $8, not another shoot.
Turnaround Booking, shipping, shooting, retouching, reshoots. Weeks, in practice. 24 to 48 hours per piece. The file never leaves your desk.
Consistency Light drifts between sessions. SKU 1 and SKU 500 rarely match. A locked master scene. Every SKU is dropped into the same camera and the same light.
The small stuff Macro lenses find dust, glue, polish marks, and the photographer in every reflection. Clean by construction. Nothing is in the reflection that we did not put there.
Changes A change to the stone size means a new sample and a new shoot. A change to the stone size means a new render overnight.

Where photography still wins. On-model campaign work — hands, necks, hair, human scale — is a photograph, and we will tell you so. Same for a piece already sitting in your case with no CAD file behind it: shoot it, then send us the photos for retouching instead.

Confidentiality

Your unreleased collection stays unreleased.

Most of what passes through this studio has not launched yet. That only works if the confidentiality is real, so here is exactly what we commit to.

NDA
Signed before the first file moves
We sign yours, or send ours if you would rather not draft one. It is standard practice here, not a paid add-on. We work on unreleased collections every week.
Ownership
The design is yours
Your CAD file stays yours. Full rights to anything we model transfer to you on final payment, including the source geometry.
Portfolio
Only with permission
By default we keep the right to show finished work in our portfolio. Under NDA we give that right up entirely, and the work never appears anywhere.
White label
We stay invisible
Retailers and designers present our sketches and renders under their own brand. Your customer never hears our name.
The toolchain

The software on our machines.

The same industry-standard tools your factory and your studio already run. Nothing we send you needs a plugin you do not have: CAD, renders, animation and production files land in formats you can open on day one.

  • Rhino 3D CAD design
  • MatrixGold Jewelry CAD
  • JewelCAD Jewelry CAD
  • CounterSketch Jewelry CAD
  • ZBrush Sculpting
  • Blender Modelling & rendering
  • Autodesk Maya Animation
  • Autodesk 3ds Max 3D design
  • Cinema 4D Motion & 3D
  • KeyShot Rendering
  • V-Ray Rendering
  • Octane Render GPU rendering
  • Redshift GPU rendering
  • Adobe Photoshop Image editing
  • Adobe Lightroom Photo editing
  • Adobe Illustrator Vector design
  • After Effects Motion graphics
  • Premiere Pro Video editing
  • DaVinci Resolve Grading & edit
  • Adobe InDesign Catalog design
  • Figma UI & presentation
  • Canva Marketing design
Files we deliver
  • 3DM
  • STL
  • OBJ
  • FBX
  • STEP
  • IGES
  • GLB
  • USDZ
  • PNG
  • JPG
  • TIFF
  • MP4
  • MOV
Questions

About the studio.

Every question we get asked →
Where is the studio based?

3D Jewelry Model is based in 205-B Shivalik Western, L.P. Savani Road, Adajan, Surat, Gujarat 395009, India. The work is delivered remotely, so it makes no practical difference where you are — files come in and images go back out with no shipping and no customs form.

Do you work on anything other than jewelry?

No. Jewelry is all we do. It is a strange specialty: the pieces are tiny, the materials are the most reflective on earth, and buyers judge the images against a lifetime of looking at real gold. A generalist 3D artist gets metal roughness wrong and nobody can say why the image feels fake.

Who checks a render before it reaches me?

Every render is checked against your spec by someone with bench experience before delivery. Prong count, girdle thickness, seat depth, wall thickness. If the piece as drawn could not hold its stone, we tell you rather than quietly render around it.

Do you sign an NDA?

Yes, before we open a single file. We sign your NDA or provide ours. Under NDA the work never appears in our portfolio.

Can renders really replace my product photography?

For catalog and product-page images, yes — most of our clients run entire stores on renders. Photography still wins for on-model campaign work, and for pieces already sitting in your case with no CAD file behind them.

How do I test you before committing?

Send one CAD file and we will render it free. No payment, no commitment. You judge the quality on your own design before you spend anything.

Send one CAD file. Judge us on your own design.

A free sample render, no payment and no commitment. It is the only honest way to check whether a studio can do jewelry.

Files answered within one business day.