AI Creative Lab
Explore what AI can actually do for your brand.
Creative exploration, visual directions, production tests and workflow recommendations — with an honest read on where AI helps and where it does not.
For teams evaluating AI
AI can generate anything. Experience knows what to make of it.
Creative Production Director — AI, CGI & Motion
30 years of creative production combined with Generative AI, CGI, Motion and Postproduction — turning new possibilities into production-ready visual communication.
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Creative Production for the AI Era
Positioning
Generation is easy. Production is the difference.
Generative AI has fundamentally changed visual production. Creating an impressive image is no longer the difficult part.
Creating a consistent visual language, protecting the brand, controlling detail, integrating CGI and motion, and turning an idea into final, production-ready assets still requires experience.
That is where creative direction meets AI production.
One pipeline
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30 YEARS
Creative production
AI + CGI + MOTION
One pipeline
GLOBAL BRANDS
adidas, Nike and others
CONCEPT → FINAL
End to end
Selected work
World-class production existed before AI. AI expands what is possible.
Campaigns, retail environments, product films and brand systems for international clients — shown by what the work had to solve, not by the year it was made.
Capabilities
One creative pipeline.
Six disciplines, one responsibility. Nothing is handed over between a strategist, a generalist and a finishing house — which is usually where the visual intention gets lost.
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Creative Direction
Concept development, visual direction and campaign thinking. Deciding what should exist before deciding how to make it.
Concept · Visual direction · Campaign architecture · Art direction
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AI Creative Production
Generative image and video production integrated into professional workflows — directed, art-directed and controlled, not prompted and hoped for.
Generative image · Generative video · Reference systems · Iteration control
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CGI + 3D
Cinema 4D, Redshift and hybrid AI/CGI production. Where a shot has to be exact — a real product, a real proportion, a real material — it gets built.
Cinema 4D · Redshift · Look development · Product visualisation
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Motion + Film
Motion design, AI video, commercial content and film. Timing, rhythm and edit are where most generated material still falls apart.
Motion design · Edit · AI video · Commercial · Imagefilm · Music video
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Postproduction
Adobe Creative Cloud, compositing, retouching, finishing and delivery. The stage that decides whether an image survives a brand review.
Compositing · Retouching · Grading · Finishing · Delivery specs
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AI Production Systems
Reproducible workflows and visual systems for brands. So the second campaign looks like the first one, and the team can run it without me.
Workflow design · Visual systems · Documentation · Team enablement
From generation to production
AI is only one part of the pipeline.
Six stages between a brief and a campaign-ready asset. Generative AI makes one of them dramatically faster. It does not remove the other five.
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Creative Direction
Idea, message, visual territory. The part no model can brief itself on.
What should we create?
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AI Exploration
Fast, wide, deliberately unfinished. Exploration is cheap now — that is the actual gift.
What becomes possible?
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Visual Control
Reference systems, locked parameters, repeatable setups. One good frame is luck; two hundred is a system.
How do we achieve consistency?
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CGI / Design / Motion
Products, proportions, typography, motion, anything that has to be exactly right. This gets built, not generated.
What needs to be built beyond AI?
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Postproduction
Compositing, retouching, colour, cleanup. Where generated material becomes brand material.
How do we control every detail?
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Final Assets
Formats, versions, resolutions, delivery. A campaign is not one image — it is two hundred files.
How does it become campaign-ready?
Engagements
Five ways to work together.
Defined scopes rather than open-ended retainers — so a first project can start small, and a working relationship can grow from a result rather than a promise.
AI Campaign Prototype
Turn an idea into a production-ready visual concept.
Key visuals, visual language, AI and CGI tests, motion tests and a campaign prototype you can put in front of a decision maker.
For pitches and pre-production
AI Creative Production
From briefing to final assets.
Creative direction, AI generation, CGI, motion, compositing and final production. One responsibility from first idea to delivered files.
For live campaigns
AI Brand Visual System
Build a visual language that can scale.
Consistent, reproducible AI-driven brand imagery and the production workflows behind it — documented so your team can run them.
For brands producing continuously
AI Creative Workshop
AI Creative Production for brands and agencies.
Hands-on workshops for marketing, brand and creative teams. Real briefs, real tools, real output — not a slide deck about the future.
For in-house teams and agencies
For agencies
Your external AI creative production partner.
Extend your creative and production capabilities without building an entire AI production department.
I don’t compete with the agency. I work behind it — under your name, to your creative lead, on the parts of the pipeline where AI, CGI and motion have to come together and hold up.
Next step
Have a project in mind?
Campaign, AI experiment, CGI production — or simply a question about what AI could realistically make possible for your brand.
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