Luxury · 2025
Haute Horlogerie —
an assembly in eleven acts.
Art Director · CG Supervisor
Cinema for
modern brands.
Crafting visual language for the world's most demanding names in fashion, sport and lifestyle. Directed from concept to final frame.
Showreel · 2024 – 2026
Direction is
a point of view.
Every frame is a decision — material, motion, light. The craft is making them invisible.
Concept · Nike · 2025
TIME SPLIT.
A thirty-second campaign concept for the flagship running silhouette. Hyperreal CG fused with AI-generated motion to dramatize the split-second between intent and movement.
Featured Case
time split.
Role
Art Director
CG Supervisor
CG Supervisor
Production
Concept, pre-viz, look dev, final grade. 6-week turnaround.
Team
4 specialists:
CG, comp, sound, grade
CG, comp, sound, grade
Tools
Houdini · Nuke · Seedance 2.0 · Kling 3.0 · DaVinci Resolve
Selected Work.
2023 – 2026
Fashion · 2025
Atelier Metamorphosis
Broadcast · 2026
Conference Titles —
a language for innovation.
Fashion · 2024
Cinematic Transformation
Industrial · 2024
Process, rendered precisely.
Editorial · 2024
Pyaterochka Campaign —
still life in motion.
Craft
Five disciplines.
One direction.
01
Art Direction
Concept through final frame. Mood, palette, pacing and production design for brand films and campaigns.
02
CG Supervision
Look development, shader and lighting direction, integration with live action. Shot-level oversight end to end.
03
AI Video Production
Prompt craft and model direction across Seedance, Kling and Higgsfield. Character consistency, continuity, grade.
04
Motion & VFX
Compositing, finishing, integration. Nuke and After Effects for broadcast and campaign work.
05
Team Leadership
Building and running production teams. Brief translation, vendor direction, deadline ownership.
A working toolkit
HoudiniNukeCinema 4DBlenderSeedance 2.0Kling 3.0HiggsfieldAfter EffectsDaVinci ResolvePhotoshopLightroom
Ten years of directing pixels into pictures.
Mike Maro is a Belgrade-based art director and CG supervisor. He has led visual direction on commercial films for fashion, sport, retail and lifestyle brands across Europe.
His practice combines traditional CG craft with AI-native production pipelines — a hybrid approach that shortens timelines without softening the work.
Available for campaigns, product films, title sequences and brand identity direction.
Let's make something.