Troy Pereira

Creative Technologist & Consultant

Award-winning AI campaigns for PUMA, Manchester City, and Olympique de Marseille. Built on custom workflows, directed end to end.

SelectedWork

5 works · 2023–2026
01/052024–2026

PUMA A.I. CREATOR X MANCHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB

AI-driven creative direction for Puma's Manchester City partnership.

Kit Launch2026/27 Third · On sale 27.08.26
The Manchester City 2026/27 PUMA third shirt, white with a central two-tone sash, half sky blue and half navy
Winning design

Elliott, a lifelong City fan. Made it on his lunch break.

The fan design became the kit.

Fans wrote prompts. PUMA AI Creator turned them into kit designs. A public vote picked one. The winner is no longer a concept. It is Manchester City's 2026/27 third kit, worn on pitch and sold in the shop: the first fan-designed AI kit in professional football to do both.

White base, central two-tone sash: half sky blue, half navy, on a subtle gradient.

180,000+
Fan designs submitted
200+
Countries represented
1.7M
Design ratings cast
1
Now on the pitch
Try it onManchester CityGallery: Players try on our fan-created 2026/27 PUMA Third kitOpen the gallery
Award

Silver Trophy for Best Use of Technology at the 7th Annual Hashtag Sports Awards (2025). PUMA AI Creator, developed in partnership with Manchester City and DEEPOBJECTS, was recognized for letting fans co-design the club's 2026/27 third kit using generative AI.

04/052025

STUDIO HALIA - INFINITE PLAY / FACEVALUE

Immersive AI-generated experience for Studio Halia's exhibition.

About

Troy Pereira

Creative Technologist & Consultant

I'm Troy Pereira, a creative technologist based in Edmonton, Canada. I take generative AI from brief to shipped product for global brands: designing the system, building the pipelines, and directing what comes out of them.

At FTR World and DEEPOBJECTS, I lead PUMA's AI Creator platform. With Manchester City, fans prompted 180,000 kit designs from more than 200 countries, a global vote picked one, and it became City's 2026/27 third kit, the first fan-designed AI kit in professional football worn on pitch and sold in store. The Marseille edition followed, and I rebuilt the platform for its next activation: generation moved from self-hosted ComfyUI onto Google's Gemini image API, with head-to-head ELO ranking, vision-model moderation, and abuse and spend controls.

That means custom ComfyUI backends, LoRA training, system-prompt design for moderation and safety, agentic engineering in Cursor, and production apps on Google Cloud. Alongside it I direct AI shot pipelines for TRYP Studios' sphere-format music films: approval gates before anything generates, provenance on every asset. The World Cup 2026 campaign with Salehe Bembury runs in parallel.

I was trained as a scientist first: M.Sc. in Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The habit that carried over is building systems that produce the same result twice.

Proficiencies
  • Custom ComfyUI pipeline architecture
  • Brand & character LoRA training
  • AI film direction
  • Generative campaign production
  • Multi-agent workflow engineering
  • GPU render orchestration
  • Rights, likeness & provenance
  • Vendor & partner management
Stack & Capabilities

Toolsof the Trade

The working stack behind award-winning campaign work. The products turn over every quarter; the pipeline judgment is what travels.

01/06

Image Generation & Finishing

  • ComfyUI
  • FLUX.2
  • Nano Banana Pro
  • GPT Image 2
  • Midjourney V8.2
  • Seedream 5.0 Pro
  • Qwen-Image-Edit
  • ai-toolkit
  • Krea
  • Magnific
  • Topaz Gigapixel
  • Adobe Photoshop
02/06

Audio, Voice & Music

  • ElevenLabs v3
  • ElevenLabs Music v2
  • Suno v5.5
  • Google Lyria 3.5
  • Stable Audio 3
  • Respeecher
  • Kits AI
  • iZotope RX 12
  • Ableton Live 12
03/06

Video, Motion & Post

  • Seedance 2.5
  • Kling 3.0
  • Runway Gen-4.5
  • Runway Aleph 2.0
  • Google Veo 3.1
  • Wan 3.0
  • MiniMax Hailuo 3.0
  • WAN-Animate
  • Higgsfield
  • Topaz Astra
  • Adobe After Effects
  • DaVinci Resolve Studio
04/06

3D & Realtime

  • Blender
  • TouchDesigner
  • Unreal Engine 5.8
  • Cinema 4D
  • Substance 3D Painter
  • Rodin Gen-2.5
  • Hunyuan3D
  • Postshot
  • three.js
05/06

Production, Rights & Delivery

  • Frame.io
  • Figma
  • Notion
  • Airtable
  • StudioBinder
  • Frontify
  • Adobe Firefly Foundry
  • Content Credentials (C2PA)
06/06

Agentic Engineering & Infrastructure

  • Claude Code
  • Claude Agent SDK
  • Cursor
  • Codex CLI
  • v0
  • n8n
  • fal
  • ComfyDeploy
  • Modal
  • RunPod
  • Google Vertex AI
MCP & CLI Setup
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Custom MCP servers
  • Blender MCP
  • Vercel MCP
  • Docker MCP Gateway
  • Hooks & skills
  • Subagents & agent teams
  • Headless / CI agents
  • RAG & context pipelines
Currently Building
  • Blender CLI
  • Headless render pipelines
  • Agent-driven 3D
Models
  • Claude Opus 5
  • Claude Fable 5.1
  • GPT-6 Astra
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro
  • Grok 4.6

Contact

Get in Touch

Interested in working together? Have questions about AI implementation? Feel free to reach out.