● Design Visualization · 3D Rendering / Film Cinematics / VR / AR / XR / Interactive
Jason Layel
I bring architecture and environments to life.
My passion is telling compelling stories and building deeply immersive experiences that evoke awe, a sense of beauty, and an understanding of design.
Stills
Selected renderings
Cinematics
Film & animation
Capabilities
One person, full pipeline
3D Rendering
Stills that hold up under a client’s longest stare. Pursuit imagery, marketing packages, design studies. All built from live design models, not one-off art files.
3D Film Cinematics & Editing
Full direction from storyboard to final cut: narrative development, rendering, compositing, and editing for flagship project films.
VR/AR/XR
Design review you can stand inside. Full-scale walkthroughs for clients and project teams, from quick massing checks to polished headset experiences.
Interactive Experiences
Tools people actually pick up. Real-time experiences, configurators, and touch interfaces that let stakeholders explore a design on their own terms.
- 3ds Max + V-Ray / Redshift / Arnold
- Unreal Engine 5
- Blender
- Enscape / Twinmotion / Lumion
- Revit + AutoCAD
- Rhino / Grasshopper
- Adobe Suite
- DaVinci Resolve
About
Background
With fourteen years across architectural design and 3D visualization, I founded and run the visualization department at MG2, a 450-person architecture firm, as its sole practitioner, turning live design models into the renderings, films, and immersive experiences that win pursuits and move review boards.
I'm a licensed-track architect (Master of Architecture, University of Virginia) who spent years as a project architect before specializing, which is why the work reads as buildings, not backdrops. I build visualization pipelines end to end, set the art-direction and QA standards behind 100+ deliverables a year, and scale them across the firm, authoring training in seven tools for 300+ designers and running VR design reviews across six offices.
The full background lives in the resume (PDF).
Contact
Currently at MG2 · open to the right role
If you’re hiring for a design visualization or visualization leadership role, or building a team and want to talk about how one dedicated specialist raised the bar across an entire firm, I’d welcome the conversation. The fastest way to reach me:
jason.layel@gmail.com