As a producer and designer, I have an extensive 20+ years of experience in the advertising and CG/animation industry. With all these years comes knowledge, insight, wisdom, and a calm no-nonsense attitude.
I can describe myself as a highly communicative introvert. This means I'm great at collaborating with people, but I do my best thinking alone. To stay sane I never take things too seriously. I often try to make my points via humor and metaphor. I’m always full of curiosity, eager to learn new things, stimulated by art and technology and always willing to serve the projects’ purpose.
Producer by experience
Managing teams, projects, resources, clients throughout the years. I have learned the vast majority of the processes involved in Animation, CG/VFX, and Design as well as having experience in developing new business opportunities.
Creative by opportunity
Having had the chance to creatively drive and influence projects from early stages in constant contact with clients and key creative teams. So far I've had the opportunity to work on 3D animation and motion-graphic design projects, for online and TV, but also many interactive projects, for online marketing.
Interaction-Designer by education
Having a background in interactive media due to my study, along with my years of experience in online advertising, this gives me a valuable insight and understanding on how design and development processes for web sites, apps, and games work, and how to use resources efficiently.
I try to make a living combining what I love and what I find interesting. I love cinema, animation, video games, interesting documentaries, music, mind expanding books, intelligent comedy, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and my dog Moxie.
Pro-tip: You really want me on your Trivial Pursuit team.
CORE SKILLS
PROFESSIONAL
- Client relationship managements / stakeholder collaboration
- Scoping, budgeting, production planning, resource scheduling, post-production coordination
- Team management, mentoring, and support
- Knowledgeable of design and development workflows
- Knowledgeable of Crypto and NFT space
SOFTWARE
- Office: Google G-Suite, Apple iWork, MS Office
- Management: Team Leader, Notion, Teamgantt, Clockify, Dropbox
- Collaboration: Slack, Discord, Google Meet
- Asset and shot mgmt: Syncsketch, Ftrack, Kitsu, Vimeo, and good ol' Google Sheets
- Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, Audition, Maxon Cinema 4D, Webflow, Midjourney
LANGUAGES
- Dutch: native language
- English: fluent (speaking, reading, writing)
COMPUTER
- PC Windows: proficient
- Apple Mac: proficienter
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
the stages of my career so far
Some of these were full-time functions at a company.
Some were my own business. And sometimes I was freelance.
CURRENTLY
CREATIVE PRODUCER
HertZollner.com
Freelance
Free again and looking for new opportunities.
At the moment I'm enjoying my free days, finishing my website, and having lots of chats and cups of coffee with production studios and interesting people. I'm open to anything. I might even consider a full-time function if the offer is interesting.
Feel free to send me a message, if you want to schedule a chat/meeting with me!
April 2022
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January 2023
Producer
Het Nieuwe Kader
Arnhem
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Full-time
Het Nieuwe Kader hired me to help them manage their projects, but also help the creative company adopt a more structured way of working.
For this I’ve enhanced the company's processes and workflows, introducing a number of new management tools to gain better project oversight and making sure all the relevant information gets stored, and found by the right people. Next to this I've introduced more effective thinking to ensure streamlined delivery across every project.
DUTIES INCLUDE
— All client point of contact for financial and production needs.
— Overseeing all projects, ensuring quality and timely delivery, from concept to execution, within scope, budget and schedule.
— Day to day management of full team assignments, ensuring efficient workflow and communication.
— Responsible for assigning tasks and allocating workload, scheduling, briefing creatives, and control the workflows.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
— Next Venue, Tomtit Film, Hippo Creative Studio, Univé, Rederij Cascade, Limburg Marketing, Erfgoed Gelderland
July 2018
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March 2022
Creative Producer
Colorbleed Studios
Utrecht
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Full-time
Just before the summer of 2018 I joined Colorbleed as a full time Creative Producer. Here I would take on the responsibility of overseeing Animation/CG/VFX productions, especially those of the international clients, from pitch till final delivery.
DUTIES INCLUDE
— Client point of contact for all financial and production needs.
— Working with creative leads to establish, maintain and communicate structured production plans, while managing creative vision within scope, budget and schedule.
— Day to day management of full team assignments, ensuring efficient workflow and communication.
CLIENTS INCLUDE
— Joe Public: OHRA, ATKPLN: Oncor, Framestore: Shoe Carnival, Selmore: KNGF, Alfred: SNS, Boutiq Films: Migros, Ferrero, Superhero Cheesecake: Porsche, Bacardi, Anomaly: T-Mobile
July 2014
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July 2018
Motion-graphic designer, Founder
Aboki Studio
Arnhem
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Self-employed
At the end of the economic crisis, I sold my Amsterdam house and I moved to Arnhem. During these years I transitioned to a more producer / director role. I acquired several projects from agencies in the "Randstad" and produced them in Arnhem, hiring people on the fly, when needed to take care of all the more advanced or tricky aspects of the production.
MY RESPONSIBILITIES
— Acquiring, pitching, budgeting, planning, all client contact
— Producing 3D animation projects, promos, explainers, 3D visualisations
— Taking care of most of the Motion-graphic design and 3D animation myself...
— Hiring freelancers when necessary to achieve higher standards and advanced details
CLIENTS INCLUDE
— Kuraray Noritake, TBWA/United: Adidas, Venour, OMRON, XXS, Yune, GreyPossible, Brand+Story, GameHouse
May 2011
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July 2014
Freelance Motion-graphic designer
Plastic Tolstoy
Amsterdam
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Freelance
When "Flash died", I decided to focus myself more on motion-graphic design and 3D animation. The following years I did many freelance projects and some of them I'm really proud of.
June 2008
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April 2011
Senior Motion-Graphics Designer
Media Republic
Amsterdam
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Full-time
This agency convinced me to join them full-time to become design lead on an ambitious, sci-fi style, vfx heavy, interactive campaign for Philips.
After this project I continued working on many more projects and online campaigns.
MY RESPONSIBILITIES
— Creative lead and interaction designer on a number of ambitions campaign sites
— Motion-design, 3D animation, and a little bit of visual design for flash sites and games
— Keying of actors, simple VFX and post production tasks (lots of "fix-it-in-post" things)
CLIENTS INCLUDE
— Philips, Unilever, AXE, KPN, Samsung, Simyo, G-Star RAW, Nuon
August 2007
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April 2008
Creative jack of all trades
Hertje.com
Amsterdam
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Freelance
Various freelance jobs as a jack of all trades visual and motion designer. Animated storyboards for tv-ads. Some 3D animation for flash sites.
Designed DVD motion graphics for several titles of Universal Documentaries, amongst others.
I also produced an online game for Peugeot, which was fun.
January 2003
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July 2007
Interaction Designer, Motion-graphic designer, Co-founder
Refunk
Amsterdam
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Full-time
When Flash came out with video support. I saw an opportunity, so I teamed up with my 2 friends and we pitched a video heavy campaign site for 180/Adidas and.... We won the pitch. The site was a success and we liked the collaboration, so we decided to start our company: Refunk. Our office was on the Prins Hendrikkade, close to the Amsterdam train station.
MY RESPONSIBILITIES
— Lots of Motion-graphic design work and creation of 3D assets for our projects
— Client point of contact, Project manager, managing clients, vendors, budgets, pitching, and giving creative direction.
— Writing treatments, and creating high-level designs of our projects
CLIENTS INCLUDE
— 180bv: Adidas, EuroRSCG4D: Volvo, Nokia, NMBS, Rabobank, Ogilvy, Spring, Eden Design: Ahrend, Blast Radius: EA
October 1998
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July 2001
Interaction designer
Magic Minds
Amsterdam
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Full-time
During my study I joined this nutty internet startup as a part time designer. Once my study was over I joined full-time. During these tumultuous "internet-bubble" times, Magicminds went through a period of boom and bust.
MY RESPONSIBILITIES
— Functional and visual design of new web-site projects
— Creative lead on design and development of a gamified auction site (first ever built in Flash) for Bart Smit
— Writing concepts/formats for online MMO games (today you'd call them "metaverse")
— I started up the 3D animation department, recruited 2x animators
EDUCATION
HKU
interaction design 1996-1999
Utrecht School of the Arts,
Faculty KMT, in Hilversum
Around 1994 I applied to the Interaction Design course of the HKU, a renowned media art-school in the Netherlands.
During the 4 years I was there, the study went through a major change of direction due to the sudden emergence of the "world-wide-web". I spent most of my time on audiovisual multimedia with lots of animation and video.
