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HMC — Hayes McCarthy  ·  Creative Direction & Content
About HMC

One partner.
From strategy to screen.

At our core, we help brands shape their voice, their content strategy and their creative direction. Great content isn't a deliverable — it's an engine. Built right, it compounds: every film, every launch, every frame strengthening the brand it serves.

What makes us different is real operator experience — building and scaling creative marketing teams and content engines from the inside — paired with executive search experience at True — partnering with and learning from Founders, CEOs and CMOs at some of the most innovative investment partners, media, sports and tech companies in the world.

That work was part of the ignition of HMC. It continues to inform how we see companies evolving, where talent is moving, and what great teams look like to scale for the future.

Meet Hayes

The Golf Collection — Shelter Harbor
Titleist Gear · Club Glove · Air Jordan Golf · PGA & LPGA Tour
The Golf Collection

It is a privilege to be trusted with the Titleist script. For more than six years, HMC has helped bring one of golf's most respected names to screen — product films, campaign photography and the complete 2025 Titleist Gear catalog — leading end-to-end creative and production for on-location shoots across annual campaigns: brand strategy, casting, shot lists, production management, and post. When a brand has spent generations earning its place in the game, the work has one job — honor it.

That same care shaped a full rebrand for Club Glove — the #1 golf travel bag on Tour. We helped define the look, feel, voice and creative direction for a product trusted by the best players in the world, then launched it with the cinematic storytelling it deserves.

Along the way we've been fortunate to work with PGA and LPGA Tour winners — capturing Brian Harman, Bud Cauley, Ryan Gerard and Emily Pedersen at the RBC Heritage and the Ford Championship — and to partner with MacNeil Engineering on the Fast Twist system inside Nike's Air Jordan golf shoes, now carried on more than 500,000 pairs.

Most of all, we're grateful for the places this work has taken us: first light at Wicker Point on Lake Marshall, late autumn at Shelter Harbor, golden hour at Sherwood Country Club, the Newport Bridge framing Jamestown's 9th green. Tremendous people, iconic brands, and some of the most stunning settings in American golf. It never gets old.

“Working with HMC has been an exceptional experience. Not only do they deliver engaging content, but they do so with velocity. Their passion, care, and expertise shine through in every project.” Mike Reffitt · General Manager, Club Glove
6+
Year creative partnership with Titleist Gear
15+
Brand & club partners · Led the Club Glove rebrand
30+
Productions across courses, products & events
10
Clubs from Shady Canyon to Shelter Harbor
Play the Golf Reel
Play the Golf Reel
HMC Golf
Sizzle Reel
The full range — courses, products and events, coast to coast.
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Sizzle Reel
Titleist Gear
Players4 Carbon
First light and morning dew on Wicker Point's Coore & Crenshaw course.
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Players4 Carbon
Titleist Gear
“Fortunate Son”
A spec ad cut from real moments on the Wicker Point shoot.
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“Fortunate Son”
Titleist Gear
LinksLegend
Shelter Harbor sets the stage for a new standard in premium golf bags.
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LinksLegend
Titleist Gear
Onyx Collection
Sleek and stylish at Hopkinton Golf Club.
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Onyx Collection
Club Glove
Product Launch
A premium studio build for the #1 travel bag on Tour.
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Product Launch
PGA & LPGA
Range Reactions
Tour pros on what makes Club Glove #1 — from Hilton Head to Whirlwind.
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Range Reactions
Air Jordan Golf
MacNeil Engineering
The Fast Twist system over Newport Harbor at Jamestown GC.
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MacNeil Engineering
The Golf Playlist — hover to preview, click to play
Hasbro — Cake Mix Studios
Hasbro · Cake Mix Studios · Universal
Cake Mix Studios

Hayes arrived at Hasbro as a cinematographer and editor — and found himself working directly with CEO Brian Goldner and leaders at Paramount and DreamWorks, creating the content that helped retailers fully imagine the possibility of Transformers — what would become one of the top-grossing movie franchises of all time. That early trust set the tone for everything that followed.

The years brought once-in-a-career moments: partnering with Universal on CGI animation for Universal Beijing, and editing the tribute film for George Lucas's induction into the Toy Hall of Fame — an honor so overdue the only real question was how he wasn't already in it.

Then came the partnership that changed the playbook. It began with early innovation — leveraging the Unreal Engine in visual effects and virtual production before most studios knew what it could do — and grew into the Hasbro × Epic Games collaboration behind NERF Fortnite and Monopoly Fortnite — the most successful product launches ever for each brand, driving nearly $1B in incremental revenue.

By the end, that cinematographer was leading a fifty-person studio spanning broadcast, social, animation, original IP, visual effects, virtual production, motion capture, motion control, edit, color and sound — working across iconic brands like Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers and NERF, and creating custom partnership content for Amazon, TMall, JD, Duracell and more. Grateful doesn't begin to cover it: fourteen years alongside tremendously talented people, in service of brands generations grew up with.

1 → 50
From cinematographer to leading a 50-person studio
$14B
Company scale at peak · from $4B
~$1B
Incremental revenue · Hasbro × Epic Games
14
Years of creative leadership at Hasbro
Play the Studio Reel
Play the Studio Reel
Cake Mix Studios
The Studio Reel
Hasbro's internal creative agency, production and post studio — a highly recognized northeast leader in brand content, innovation and growth.
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The Studio Reel
Hasbro
Virtual Production
In-studio rear projection and green screen real-time virtual production, tracking and compositing.
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Virtual Production
Hasbro
Motion Design
Built and led a brilliant team of motion designers, animators and VFX artists — bringing the world's most iconic brands to life through design.
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Motion Design
Hasbro × Universal
Transformers Animation
Character animation for Universal — Bumblebee and the Autobots brought to life.
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Transformers Animation
Hasbro
Motion Control
Led research, purchase, training and use of the Mark Roberts Bolt Jr — repeatable, precise, dynamic camera moves for stunning cinematic shots.
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Motion Control
Original IP
Cubby Hill
Original IP animation created in partnership with Hasbro's product development team.
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Cubby Hill
The Studio Playlist — hover to preview, click to play
Behind the scenes
The Cake Mix Studios team
The People
The Cake Mix Team
Fifty artists, animators, editors, producers and engineers — the people behind fourteen years of work worth being proud of.
Transformers commercial diorama with Bolt motion control
On Set
Transformers Commercial
Diorama build · Bolt motion control
Wide view of Cake Mix studio during a commercial shoot
The Stage
The Studio Floor
Mid-shoot · virtual production wall live
Cake Mix Learning Series with Paul Dowling of Ringling College
Culture
The Learning Series
Hayes brought leaders from across industries into the studio — here, Paul Dowling, Ringling College Animation
Conor and Liam recording dialogue for Cubby Hill
In the Booth
Cubby Hill
Conor & Liam laying down dialogue
Hayes with R2-D2
Good Company
R2-D2
The George Lucas tribute era
Hebron Academy · Lifestyle & Education
“Maine”
Hebron Academy
“Maine”
The flagship — a brand anthem set to Noah Kahan's music. The creative north star for everything that followed.
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“Maine”
Hebron Academy
2026 Admissions
26K+ views on Instagram — the film that anchors the admissions landing page.
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2026 Admissions
Hebron Academy
Discover Hebron
An extended tour of the campus and what makes this part of the northeast so special.
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Discover Hebron
The Hebron Playlist — hover to preview, click to play

As an alum of Hebron Academy and the father of two Lumberjacks, Hayes saw an opportunity for Hebron to tell a greater story about this special place. What began as a film became a full transformation partnership — the school's complete creative, content and communications engine, built over a year.

It started the right way: listening. A competitive analysis of seven New England boarding schools, more than 300 alumni survey responses, and fifty community conversations with students, faculty, alumni and parents shaped everything that followed.

The creative north star is “Maine” — a brand anthem set to Noah Kahan's music, created as a spec piece to show what investing in popular music could mean for the school. Every piece of content that followed asks one question: does this feel like Maine?

From there the engine grew — admissions films that anchor the recruiting funnel, sport-specific athletics content, a YouTube architecture and a 20-plus page website rebuild. The result is a living content system with over 160 assets that now operates independently with Hebron's extended team. We're grateful to a community that trusted us with its story — and to a campus that makes every frame beautiful.

160+
Assets in the Hebron content engine
26K+
Instagram views · 2026 Admissions Video
323
Alumni survey responses · 62% open rate
20+
Pages rebuilt at hebronacademy.org
Play “Maine”
Play “Maine”

Audiences expect more than a message. They want to feel something real. So we don't make content — we make moments that move, built to perform and made to last.

The Work

All Sports Lifestyle Consumer
Titleist Gear — Players4 Carbon
Titleist Gear
Players4 Carbon
Titleist Gear — “Fortunate Son”
Titleist Gear
“Fortunate Son”
Titleist Gear — LinksLegend
Titleist Gear
LinksLegend
Titleist Gear — Onyx Collection
Titleist Gear
Onyx Collection
Club Glove — Product Launch
Club Glove
Product Launch
Club Glove / PGA & LPGA — Range Reactions
Club Glove / PGA & LPGA
Range Reactions
Air Jordan Golf — MacNeil Engineering
Air Jordan Golf
MacNeil Engineering
HMC Golf — Sizzle Reel
HMC Golf
Sizzle Reel
Hebron Academy — “Maine”
Hebron Academy
“Maine”
Hebron Academy — Discover Hebron
Hebron Academy
Discover Hebron
Hebron Academy — Alumni Admissions
Hebron Academy
Alumni Admissions
Hebron Academy — Campus Life
Hebron Academy
Campus Life
Hasbro — Cake Mix Studios Reel
Hasbro
Cake Mix Studios Reel
Hasbro — Motion Design
Hasbro
Motion Design
Hasbro — Virtual Production
Hasbro
Virtual Production
Hasbro / Universal — Transformers Animation
Hasbro / Universal
Transformers Animation
Hasbro — Motion Control
Hasbro
Motion Control
Hasbro · Original IP — Cubby Hill
Hasbro · Original IP
Cubby Hill
What we do
Brand Voice & Creative Direction
Clarifying who you are, how you sound and how you show up across every channel and touchpoint.
Content Strategy & Execution
Cinematic launches, brand anthems, virtual production, motion control and motion design — strategies rooted in brand truth and built to travel.
AI Integration & Adoption
Helping brand and marketing teams understand and integrate AI in a way that actually fits how they work — at the forefront of AI-accelerated creative.

Let's make something
that moves.

Brand films, product launches, content engines, creative teams. One partner, from strategy to screen. No form required — but it helps us move faster.

Prefer email? hayes@hayesmccarthy.com  ·  Executive search: hmcsearch.com