Hert Zollner

CREATIVE PROJECT MANAGER

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I started out making the work.

Now I make sure it gets made.

I grew up around artists, both my parents made art for a living, so I know the drive of talent up close. I chose the practical path: interactive media, design and animation, creativity that gets finished and pays for itself. I made that work myself for years, so I know it from the inside. What I'm better at is making sure it gets made.

By now AI runs all the way through how I work. Not a trick to save time, more a new way of making and producing. I stopped seeing it as a threat to creativity a while ago, more an accelerator of it and a bar that keeps rising. The old holy house is gone, and I'm fine with that.

As a manager, two things count: the result, and the people who make it. You don't hit a deadline by burning down your studio, you hit it by building a team that grows, learns and gets better with every project. That way every job makes the studio stronger, and the effect compounds.

Trust and respect always run both ways, otherwise they're worthless.
You build them by talking, being clear, and giving room.

LATELY

Postoffice

Stepped in as producer and took a VFX/AI commercial from briefing to final delivery, as the client's primary contact. That spot, Peperami's "Be Bold, Be Meaty", was full of sheep with mullets.

Boutiq Films

A studio I've worked with for years, from producing high-end commercials to recent AI work. On Fleet of One I was hands-on as an AI artist, an AI-made sailing film shortlisted for the Metamorph Award 2026.

Colorbleed

Creative producer on high-end CGI and VFX for international clients. Proud of the T-Mobile GOGOGO Deals commercial: smartphones toppling like dominoes, CGI and live-action seamlessly blended, and thanks to the media budget, all over the Netherlands for months.