Meet The Team

Our Story

Nairoreel Productions is a video production company we founded in Nairobi, Kenya in 2024. We both finished high school in 2023 and hit a gap before university. Rather than waiting it out, we started teaching ourselves: Adobe After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Blender. We launched a podcast called The Genzennial partly to stay accountable to the learning.

Most of the education came from YouTube. Chris Do, an Emmy Award-winning designer and founder of The Futur channel, was one of the bigger influences. His focus was less on technique and more on how to run a creative business: charge based on value not hours, and know how to hold a client conversation without folding. Other channels went deep on cinematography, lighting, and production breakdowns. Between all of it, we were building real working knowledge.

Over time we went in different directions. Bill got more interested in photography. Brandon kept going deeper into Blender.

By the end of 2024, we had a finished piece to show for it. The KFC spec ad was our first full 3D production, built as a self-set challenge. Blender for the whole 3D pipeline, DaVinci Resolve for editing and sound. Our laptops couldn't handle the heavier renders, so we used Google Colab to run those jobs in the cloud and pulled the outputs back locally. It worked.

Bill shot weddings and local events in the meantime, and joined his father on documentary work for government projects in rural Kenya, including fieldwork around the Nile Basin in northern Kenya. Then he got access to shoot Nairobi Fashion Week. The black and white image of the model you see across this site came from that day.

Maria Yusufali joined us as Communications Director after that.

Brandon is now working with EmberGen for fire and smoke simulations. Bill shoots more video alongside the photography. Our core tools are Blender, DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, and Final Cut, with Marvelous Designer in the pipeline for cloth work. Rendering runs on cloud GPUs rather than the machines on our desks, which is what lets us take on shot counts our own hardware could never finish. Tranzit, a two-part CGI short, is the biggest production so far. There's more coming.

What We Make

The studio splits across three kinds of work, and most projects pull from more than one. A brand film might be shot on location and then extended with 3D. A product launch might be entirely computer-generated, with no camera involved at all. Because the shooting and the 3D happen under one roof, we scope a project by what it actually needs rather than by what one specialist happens to offer.

The rows below are a sample from each category. We add to them as new work ships.