VFX Artist · Master Portrait Photographer

30 years of
creating visuals.

Flame compositing for HBO and ABC, white oil paintings, museum‑quality portraits in the Boston School tradition — and, since 2022, exploring AI.

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Fine art portrait of an equestrian, by Udi Edni — The Equestrian — 48FineArt, MPI Prestige Award

The Evolution · 1985 → Now

Five studios. One eye.

AI Exploration2022 – Now

Experimenting with AI image tools through the eye of a compositor, painter and portraitist.

48FineArt2017 – 2021

Grand‑style, life‑size portrait commissions continuing the Boston School of Artists tradition. 2020 Grand Imaging Award, MPI Prestige Award, PPA Loan Collection.

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Fine art portrait of a boy in a blue suit with white roses, by Udi Edni

48 Photography2015 – 2016

Lifestyle portraits in natural light — newborns, families and seniors across the fields and woods of Dover, Massachusetts.

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Black and white portrait of a young woman

Pix-R-Me2008 – 2014

Candid school photography — children playing, learning and performing, photographed the way their parents see them.

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Children cheering on a red playground car

The White One2006 – 2007

A collection of twenty‑one 48×48 white oil paintings, each holding a found object bound in natural twine — art designed from a designer's standpoint.

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White oil painting with a hanging golden heart

VFX Design1994 – 2006

Flame & Inferno compositor in Tel Aviv, New York and Boston. HBO, BBC America, ABC, ESPN, Discovery, Disney. Six Gold Promax awards; Dell's Super Bowl spot in SHOOT's Top 10 VFX of 2007.

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HBO Presentación Especial broadcast design frame

Tel Aviv University1992 – 1996

BA, Film & Television

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology1985 – 1988

Mechanical Engineering

Credentials

Master Photographer, CPP (Professional Photographers of America) · Master in Portraits (Master Photographers International, MPI)

The Studio · Needham, MA · 2017–2021

Fine Art & Portraits by Udi Edni

The 48FineArt studio storefront at dusk, Needham

Brushes, palette and portraits in progress at the studio

Awards · Exhibits · Press

MPI International Image Challenge Gold trophy with the Moe Handel portrait — Gold — MPI International Image Challenge, 2020

Udi Edni holding the Grand Imaging Award trophy at Imaging USA 2020 — Grand Imaging Awards — Imaging USA, Nashville, 2020

Award-winning portrait of Maurice Moe Handel by Udi Edni — Portrait of Moe Handel — 3rd place, General Portrait; PPA Loan Collection

Udi Edni receiving the PPA Master Photographer degree on stage — Receiving PPA Master Photographer

Grand Imaging Award, 3rd — General PortraitPPA 2020

Exhibited — PPA Loan Collection2020

Gold — International Image ChallengeMPI 2020

Prestige AwardMPI

Silver AwardWPE International

Blue Ribbon & Judge's ChoicePPAM / PPANE

Top 10 VFX — Dell Super BowlSHOOT 2007

Six Gold Promax awardsBroadcast VFX

Solo exhibition — The White One, The Stephanie Odegard Collection, Miami2005

Exhibition · The White One · Miami 2005

MAG Miami Art Guide cover, September/October 2005 — MAG · Miami Art Guide — artist review, 2005

Invitation to The White One at The Stephanie Odegard Collection — The White One — solo show, Odegard, Miami Design District, 2005

The White One paintings at The Stephanie Odegard Collection — Odegard at Paradeisos — July–October 2005

About

“The box is just a box. What makes the magic is the artist.”

Israeli‑born. Udi spent a decade compositing broadcast design, commercials and features — Perfect Stranger, The Nanny Diaries — before turning the same eye for light to paint and to portraiture — and, since 2022, to exploring AI.

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