Six Country Escape is a visual journey through six countries and nine cities, captured through architecture, street life, landscapes, food, and quiet…
This project is a real-time WebGPU automotive visualization study built in Unity, focused on material customization, browser delivery, and optimized…
A Project About Nothing is a small real-time Unity study built around a field dog wandering through a desert environment. The goal was to examine the…
This project was a stylized CG animation created as part of a licensed Mega Bloks campaign featuring the Minions universe in collaboration with…
This project was a stylized CG animation inspired by the classic 80s Turtles theme intro, created using Mega Bloks toy-based characters and…
This project was a stylized CG animation created as part of a licensed Mega Bloks campaign featuring the Halo universe in collaboration with Mattel…
Created for Mega Bloks during their licensed partnership with Blizzard Entertainment, this interactive website brought the world of World of Warcraft…
This project is a 7-second cinematic breakdown from a Destiny TVC sequence produced as part of an official Megabloks / Mattel Halo campaign. The…
This piece began with something simple and physical, a Megabloks / Mattel Halo ship, animated through stop-motion frame by frame created by…
This is a personal project: a fully self-built CNC milling machine developed over the course of a year, designed and engineered from the ground up…
This project is a 10-second cinematic TVC created for MagneXt, a magnetic construction toy line developed by Mattel. The concept focuses on a single…
This project documents my journey biking across Canada, from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic Ocean, covering a total distance of approximately…
This project was created as a 10-second cinematic TV spot featuring the Halo Scorpion, a canon armored vehicle within the Halo universe reinterpreted…
This project was created as a 10-second cinematic TV spot featuring the Halo Pegasus, a canon vehicle within the Halo universe reinterpreted through…
This project is a mixed reality gameplay prototype developed in Unity, combining physical computing with real-time augmented reality. The experience…
This project is a mixed reality prototype built around a physical Mega Bloks / Mattel rover, combining real-world toy hardware with a Unity-based…
This project is a fully built modular RC-style vehicle system developed entirely using LEGO components, designed to explore physical computing…
This project is a wearable robotic hand system built using Mega Bloks Micro components as the structural base, combined with embedded electronics and…
This project explores motion tracking and visual effects integration using real-world footage combined with 3D animation and compositing techniques…
This project is a motion tracking and visual effects experiment set in a real-world cafe environment. The background footage was captured on location…
This project is part of my early professional work, created during my time at a company where I had limited production access and tools. It…
Robots in the Warehouse is a real-time warehouse automation demonstration showcasing autonomous mobile robots operating within a modern distribution…
This project explores high-end product visualization using Unity HDRP, showcasing how real-time rendering can achieve the level of quality…
This HDRP showcase was created for a Unity workshop I delivered at Boeing, demonstrating the visual fidelity possible with Unity's HDRP water system…
This project was built in Unity HDRP to showcase high-end automotive visualization using path tracing, custom shaders, lighting, and material…
Six Country, Nine City
Robots in the Warehouse
HDRP Ocean & Volumetric Clouds Showcase
WebGPU Automotive Configurator
A project about nothing
HDRP Path Tracing Studio
Talia
Machine01
Shapeshifters
Halo FOD
Magnext TVC
Destiny TVC
TMNT 80s Blockfied
Minions at Cafe
Minion Tracking at Mattel
Minion Mayhem
Gumpaway
Turrentblok Mixed Reality
Rover Mixed Reality
SPARTAN MARK VI
Halo Scorpion TVC
Halo Pegasus TVC
World of Warcraft
Roboblok
Neoshifters
This project was a stylized CG animation created as part of a licensed Mega Bloks campaign featuring the Halo universe in collaboration with Mattel. The goal was to translate the dramatic tone and scale of Halo 4 into a toy-based cinematic language, where the forms remained true to the Mega Bloks aesthetic while the lighting, staging, and atmosphere carried the weight of a serious sci-fi sequence. The piece was inspired by the emotional direction of Halo 4, especially the iconic feeling of Master Chief removing his helmet, and was designed to bring that sense of mystery, scale, and cinematic tension into a short-form animation built around the licensed toy world.
On the production side, the work covered a full CG pipeline, from building the main environments, including the elevator shaft, cryo bay, and armory bay, to preparing assets for animation, rigging, scene layout, animation, shaders, lighting, rendering, and final compositing. A major part of the challenge was balancing the simplified block-based toy forms with a more cinematic Halo-inspired mood, using camera movement, lighting, atmosphere, and composition to make the world feel larger and more dramatic than the physical toy scale. The final visuals were built using 3ds Max and Mental Ray, with final compositing in After Effects and supporting work in Photoshop and Illustrator.
The Master Chief character mesh used in this project was an official production asset provided as part of the licensed project. Character design and source asset credit belongs to the Mattel design team, and the project was part of an approved licensed production process involving Microsoft / 343 Industries.
Disclaimer: This project was produced as part of a licensed commercial animation campaign in collaboration with Mattel / Mega Bloks and the Halo IP, with Microsoft / 343 Industries involved in the approval process. All characters, story elements, designs, production assets, and related intellectual property are owned by their respective rights holders. This portfolio page is presented only as a professional project showcase and production breakdown.
Acknowledging the teams, studios, and collaborators behind the project.
This VFX test explored how a small toy-based Master Chief figure could be pushed into a more cinematic live-action / CG moment. The footage was filmed freestyle on an iPhone 7, giving it a raw handheld feel, then tracked in Boujou 5 to extract the camera movement and bring the shot into a proper 3D workflow. The goal was not just to add an effect on top of the footage, but to make the fire feel like it belonged inside the same physical space as the character.
Inside 3ds Max, I used the tracked camera data to line up the CG elements with the live-action plate. I created a FumeFX flame simulation and selected a strong still frame from the sim as the hero fire shape. Instead of using it like a flat overlay, I treated that FumeFX frame as part of a 3D scene and rendered it while the camera moved around it, giving the shot more depth, energy, and a stronger cinematic feel.
The flame pass was rendered with Scanline and composited back into the original footage in Adobe After Effects, blending the handheld plate with simulated fire, smoke, and atmosphere. The test became a small but effective experiment in mixing practical toy footage, matchmove tracking, simulation, rendering, and compositing into one dramatic visual moment.