Blind: Flying Type from john dretzka on Vimeo.

Client: Brighthouse Networks
Studio: Blind
Creative Director: Tom Koh
Producers: Keith Bryant and Amy Knerl

Last Fall I was at Blind in Santa Monica re-packaging this previously animated series of spots for Brighthouse Networks. My duties for these spots include footage replacement, type design, color changes and versioning.

The Core: UI Design from john dretzka on Vimeo.

Client: Ogilvy/ Cisco
Studio: The Core (www.thecore.la)
Creative Director: Chris Hoffman
Executive Producer: Chad Feeback

Designed and animated two of the screens featured in this live action spot for CISCO. The ones I was responsible for were to the left (radar screen) and the right ( calendar ) of the largest monitor.

SSION: WOMAN from john dretzka on Vimeo.

This video was animated for Boy: The Movie, a film directed by Cody Critcheloe. Cody is the nexus of art-punk force, the SSION. Last Summer he contacted me to animate the finale of his movie. It was to be executed in a style that was to be radically different from his previous body of work. To accommodate him, I dusted off my 3D software and set off to make something nuts.
The result was, as described by Alice Thorson of the Kansas City Star, a ” phantasmagorical celebration of women”. I am pretty happy with that summary.

Director: Cody Critcheloe
Design, Animation and Compositing: John Dretzka
Videographer: Drew Bolton

Extra Special thanks to Gene Sung and Alex Dervin. Without their generosity I would have been stuck doing this whole thing on my laptop. Which would have sucked.

In the process of  posting a stash of old design work to my Picasa site. Check it out!

This summer I was commissioned by Cody from SSION to do a music video for a screening and dvd release. I will be posting the video soon, It’s nuts.

A visualization that shows how flat screen technology can be used to show works of modern art in a new light.

Above are a handful of live action to end tag transition ideas. They were designed for a :30 broadcast spot promoting the Broadway revival of HAIR The Musical. The spot was directed by Kurt Matilla and produced by Alex Dervin.

The above web mock-up and type treatment below were done for a production company re-brand.

And another web mock for director/ editor Kurt Matilla.

Concept frame designed for (possibly) upcoming documentary on the Hmong in the United States. The look was inspired by traditional Hmong story quilts. I wanted to demonstrate how a very simplified folk art style could function in a motion graphics context.

Style frame executed for a clients spec pitch. It’s a spooky forest from a video game I’ve never played called Maple Story.