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WORKS

Creative Visuals for Commercial

2015 - 2025

Featured Works

A showcase of commercial visual work that transforms complex ideas into clear, engaging stories. Each piece is crafted with narrative intent, artistic precision, and technical depth—bridging design, motion, and meaning to elevate how products are seen and understood.

2025

( 2025 )

Microsoft - Copilot+PCs for Business

: Leading innovation in leveraging Generative AI in the production of Copilot+PCs launch. Blending emerging technology with storytelling to elevate product marketing.

Microsoft - Meet the new Surface Copilot+PCs

: Redefined product storytelling in the Copilot+PCs launch through the creative use of Generative AI image and video, bridging innovation and marketing.

( 2023 )

: Led the integration of pre-production, 3D rendering, and visual effects, ensuring a cohesive visual narrative from concept to completion.

Microsoft - Surface Laptop Go 3

: Collaborated from concept to post-production, emphasizing 3D rendering and visual effects to set the visual tone for the product.

: Designed and rendered the opening CG sequence, setting the stage for the product's new feature announcement.

( 2022 )

: Contributed to pre-production planning, concept development, and executed 3D rendering and visual effects, culminating in a polished post-production finish for the launch video.

: Involved in conceptualizing the visual style, 3D rendering, and UI representation, all refined in the post-production stage to elevate the product's narrative.

Microsoft - Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

: Leading the integration of concept design, 3D rendering, and visual effects, ensuring a refined and cohesive creative process from start to finish.

( 2021 )

Microsoft - Windows 11 Announcement

: Leading creative direction and production of the Windows 11 announcement video, from the dynamic CG reveal of the new logo and Start Menu to the seamless integration of live-action sequences, ensuring a unified visual narrative.

: Played a pivotal role from pre-production to post-production, focusing on visual style development and live-action to CG integration to create a compelling video.

: Engaged in pre-production, concept exploration and led in the development of visual style and 3D rendering, and ensured a cohesive post-production output.

( 2019 )

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

( 2018 )

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the CG Sequence

: Collaborate with the team to design and render the opening CG Sequence

: Look Development, 3-D Lighting and Rendering of CG Product Shots

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering of CG Balloons 

: HDRI and Grey/Chrome Ball Light Rig Setup

KIA - Super Bowl 2017 Commercial
"Hero's Journey"

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering of Ocean Sequence (except whale)

: HDRI and Grey/Chrome Ball Light Rig Setup

GEICO - "Count On" Campaign
"Star Captain: The Lost Keys" Commercial

: Space Battle Scene Layout, Animation and Lighting

NIKE - Rio Olympic
"Unlimited You"

: Lighting and Rendering for Stadium Crowd

XBOX - Gears Of War 4
"Tomorrow"

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering for Environment, FX Rendering

( 2016 )

OLD SPICE
"Be Harder"

: Lighting and Rendering for Stadium Crowd

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering for Bee Swarm Particles

: Look Development, Lighting, Rendering and Compositing of VFX Sequence

: Design and Render Shots for Lidar Data Behind the Scene Sequences

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering for CG Vehicles and The Mill BLACKBIRD®

HONDA - Super Bowl 2016
"A New Truck To Love"

: Lighting and Rendering for Creature Face

: HDRI and Grey/Chrome Light Rig Setup

HONDA
"New Rules"

: Look Development, Lighting and Rendering for Robots and Treehouse

: HDRI and Grey/Chrome Light Rig Setup

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