Recent Work

  • 2025 Reel

    Direction, documentary films, and motion graphics from the last 15 years.

  • Xbox Programming and Events Documentary - Tina Summerford (Wood)

    Making The Moment: Documentary

    Role: Creative Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2025, I created an hour long documentary that chronicles the unifying moments that define the Xbox Programming & Events team.

  • A spaceship crash site on a rocky, desert-like planet with towering rock formations, a double sunset or eclipse in the sky, and several astronauts near the wreckage.

    Atlas

    Role: Game Experience Director
    Company: NetEase

    Atlas is a canceled third person sci-fi game created at Jar of Sparks between 2022-2025.

  • Awakening Teaser

    Role: Studio Creative Director
    Company: Jar of Sparks (NetEase)

    Jar of Sparks studio site 2023 launch video created in partnership with Territory Studios UK.

  • Master Chief and the Weapon meeting for the first time.

    Halo Infinite: Narrative

    Role: Narrative Experience Director
    Company: Microsoft

    From 2018 to 2021, I led a team of over 100 people to create more than 2.5 hours of in-game cinematics and dozens of hours of storytelling content.

  • Logo of the game Halo Infinite with a large futuristic tower and mountainous landscape in the background under a starry sky.

    Halo Infinite: E3 2018

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2018, I led a team of around 50 people to open Xbox’s E3 2018 show with this short teaser for Halo Infinite.

  • Promotional poster for the video game Halo Infinite featuring the game's logo, a background of glowing lines, and a silhouette of a futuristic armored soldier on the right side, with the words "Discover Hope" below.

    Halo Infinite: E3 2019

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2019, I led a team of around 60 people to close the last Xbox E3 show with this 8 minute trailer for Halo Infinite.

  • A futuristic digital display with the word 'OVERRIDE' in red across a digital grid background.

    Halo Infinite: Season 2 Teaser

    Role: Narrative Experience Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2022, animated, modeled, and composited this short teaser that aired before a Halo Infinite live-stream.

  • Futuristic robotic interface with the word 'Broadcasting' highlighted in neon text, featuring robotic arms, digital data, and sci-fi graphical elements.

    Halo Infinite: Season 4 Unfinished Teaser

    Role: Narrative Experience Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In May of 2022, one of my last projects at Halo was the end-to-end production of a 3D trailer for Halo Infinite’s 4th seasonal offering.

  • Master Chief with the text "Project Olympus The Promise" overlaid.

    Halo Infinite: Pitch Documentary

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In October 2017, created a 22-minute documentary used to green-light funding of Halo Infinite.

  • Project Olympus: Why We Fight - The Early Beginnings of Halo Infinite

    Halo Infinite: Why We Fight Documentary

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In early 2017, I created 10-minute documentary on the current state of Halo Infinite for the internal game team.

  • Close-up of a black gaming controller with a sleek design, partly inside a headset, against a dark background.

    Halo VR

    Role: Creative Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2017, Halo Studios (343) was looking for a way to bring the presence of the Halo universe into virtual reality.

  • A man appears on a futuristic digital screen with interface graphics, including the text 'Keyword Flag' and a medical cross, in what seems to be a high-tech medical or research environment.

    Halo: Nightfall Second Stories

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2014, I created 15 short films that debuted along side the premiere of Halo: Nightfall.

  • Desk with two screens displaying sci-fi themed content, a black t-shirt, metallic mug, and various items inside a gray compartment, with a central emblem reading 'Founder 343 Industries'

    Halo Crate

    Role: Creative Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2015, I was asked to imagine what a subscription box could look like for the Halo consumer products team.

  • Logo of the Halo Channel.

    Halo Channel App

    Role: Creative Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2013, I led a team of around 40 people create an interactive TV app, mobile experience and PC application based around Halo.

  • Blue digital background with the text 'HALO iMessage Sticker Pack'

    Halo iOS Sticker Pack

    Role: Director
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2016, created a fun animated Halo sticker pack at the dawn of the iOS functionality.

  • Close-up of Master Chief's armor set, with text indicating it's related to 'Making Halo 4: A Hero Awakens, Part 1'.

    Making Halo 4: A Hero Awakens

    Role: Lead Video Editor & Motion Designer
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2012, I created a three-part, 35-minute, documentary series on the making of Halo 4 for the Xbox 360.

  • Halo 4: Composing Worlds Documentary Image

    Halo 4: Composing Worlds Documentary

    Role: Lead Video Editor & Motion Designer
    Company: Microsoft

    Sporadically in 2011 and 2012, I spend around a month in Bristol, England documenting and interviewing the creators of Halo 4’s music.

  • Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Logo

    Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Documentary

    Role: Lead Video Editor & Motion Designer
    Company: Microsoft

    In 2011, I created an 18-minute documentary series on the making of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary for the Xbox 360.

  • A woman with orange hair posing on a military vehicle in a desert. She is wearing a beige top, a brown skirt, and leopard-print high heels. There are fighter jets flying in the sky in the background.

    USO Presents: VH1 Divas

    Role: Staff Designer
    Company: Imaginary Forces

    Show packaging for a 60 minute special that aired on VH1 December 5th, 2010.

  • Green school lockers with one locker door open showing a crumpled paper on the black and white checkered floor, with scattered papers and a crumpled piece of paper in the foreground.

    Disney XD Branding

    Role: Intern Designer
    Company: Loyalkaspar NYC

    In 2008, I worked as an animator and designer at Loyalkaspar on the branding efforts for Disney’s (then) new channel Disney XD.

  • Kellogg's Fiber Plus Antioxidants snack box with dark chocolate almond flavor, featuring images of the snack and a logo.

    Kellogg's Fiber Plus

    Role: Intern
    Company: King & Country

    In 2010, I modeled and animated various elements for a nationwide commercial.

  • Colorful promotional graphic for Comedy Central's "Roast of Joan Rivers," featuring shiny, gold, pink, and purple text with a smoky background and stage lights.

    Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers

    In 2009, I worked at King & Country LA modeling and animating elements for the Comedy Central roast.

  • A young woman in a white dress holding hands with a young man in a denim shirt outdoors during sunset.

    Empire

    Role: Student
    Location: Savannah College of Art & Design

    2010 MFA Thesis project created with Imaginary Forces director Alan Williams.