Emeli Salo is an image designer in retouch and 3D.

I'm Emeli Salo – a visual creator with a passion for 3D design and high-end retouching. I help brands and creators bring their ideas to life through clean, expressive and photorealistic imagery. Whether it's interior design, product renders, or retouching – I focus on crafting visuals that speak, sell, and inspire. Every detail matters – and I love what I do.

Program I have knowledge in.
Photoshop - blender - Maya - Unreal Engien - Houdini -Substance Painter - Zbrush - Studio Daz 3D - Marvelous Designer - Unreal - Nuke - Davinci Resolve - Premiere Pro - Capture one - After effects 

Work

- Freelancer -

- Work for SvenPrim Gröna lund

2025/02

- Mods Graphic studio work with ecom

2024/03-2024/08

-Mods Graphic studio work with ecom

2023/02-2023/08

- Svegro

2023/02

- Mods Graphic studio work with ecom

2022/06-2022/07

- Hotells, kitchen assistant, ICA,

Sibylla.

2012-2020

LIA/ internship

- Swiss International VFX

Vfx in advertising. Working with prework, previs, and single shot.
Modeling, texturing, lookdev, camera tracking, animation, rendering, compositing.

2025/02 - 2025/11

- Sven Prim (3D,Retouch) work for Skara sommarland and Gröna Lund

Worked in Blender and created the slide and a carousel for the skarasommarland poster.

Then I was involved in making high res sculptures for winter wonderland. the big and little dragon, flying mouse, goblin. Made in Zbrush and did some of the textures in substance painter.

I learn alot about the i learned his process in 3d and how he created 3d images and used 3d people and added photographed faces. Taught me everything about textures, how to work with reference images. different programs, and to come up with ideas that you should create what you can not photograph.

2022/04 - 2022/11

- Isabelle Alsén (eightbit retouch) work for Discovery plus, Mc Donalds, Barebells, XMReality/Hololens.

Worked in Photoshop for Discovery Plus, Mc donalds, Barebells, XMreality/Hololens with help of Isabelle.

2021/11 - 2021/12

Education

Tumba Xenter - VFX Artist

2023/08-2025/11

-Digital image processing, Fotoskolan STHLM - (Stockholm School Of Photography), Stockholm, Sweden

2020/08 - 2022/11

- Photography, Bessemergymnasiet (High school,) Sandviken, Sweden

2008/08 - 2011/06

Publications / Collaborations

2021

- Reserol

Products in 3D for presentation.

- Highwayhoneys, EP

Post-production for their new covers. On Spotify.

- Mikael Cronwall ‘Se mig!’

Västerbottens museum. Group exhibition. Post-production. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=xE36xu1e7U4

If you have any fun ideas and want to discuss a project? Please get in touch. Generally, I’m able to reply to all inquiries within 48 hours.

emelisalo@gmail.com