- 01 INTRO

Microsoft / Department of Defense

Design
3D Look Dev
Lighting
Texturing

3D asset library for Department of Defense internal communications. 4-5 month engagement through Indigo Slate. Built hundreds of renders - full scenes plus modular assets with alpha backgrounds so DoD designers could assemble their own presentations. Led look dev, lighting, and texturing from Jonathan Feldman's models. Creative directors used these assets to build client-facing decks.

- 02 discovery

Initial Look Development Explorations

In the project's foundational phase, I led look development with strategic creative autonomy. This intensive exploration yielded diverse compositional studies and mood variations, establishing visual parameters while remaining adaptable to evolving creative direction. This deliberate process created a collaborative feedback loop where team insights continuously elevated our visual direction.

- 03 exploration

Options, Iterations, and Feedback

Showcased here are select explorations from an extensive creative development phase. The iterative workflow demanded rapid concept generation for team evaluation—each piece subject to approval, refinement, or elimination based on strategic fit. This unsentimental selection process, where no concept was treated as precious, fostered honest creative assessment without emotional attachment.

- 04 look dev

Finding the Cover

These compositions were strategically engineered as foundation pieces for internal presentation decks, featuring deliberate negative space to accommodate typography and additional design elements. Each image's visual weight was meticulously balanced to reinforce the client's narrative of precision and purposeful execution while maintaining maximum flexibility for the design team's implementation needs.