Art by Angie Jones - www.stixandjones.comConsulting & Advisory
The Technology Changes. The Deadline Doesn’t.
Fractional Creative & Production Leader | Technology Consultant
Leading Complex Production
Creative direction can move faster than the production systems, tools, and teams supporting it. Sometimes the issues are clear. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes the challenge is knowing what to build next and how to build it to scale.
What is often missing is an experienced, unbiased perspective and the ability to turn complexity into clear decisions.
That’s where I come in.
Ways to Work Together
Fractional Creative & Production Leadership
For teams seeking experienced direction, perspective, and support without adding a permanent executive role.
Advisory & Production Assessments
Focused consulting to evaluate a production, workflow, pipeline, technology initiative, or organizational challenge and define a practical path forward.
Proofs of Concept & Workflow Development
Hands-on development and testing to determine how new tools, technologies, and production approaches can work before committing resources at scale.
Training & Team Enablement
Custom training, workshops, and hands-on instruction that help artists, producers, creative teams, and leaders understand, adopt, and confidently use new tools and emerging technologies.
Why Productions Get Stuck
After working on 150+ productions in film, games, commercials, animation, and VFX, I’ve found that production problems usually come down to three things.
1. The plan is no longer clear.
As pressure builds, teams start solving whatever is directly in front of them. Creative priorities blur, decisions become reactive, and the original goal gets harder to see. On siloed or poorly structured productions, people fill gaps outside their roles, solve creative and technical problems on the fly, and create workarounds that are never documented or shared.
The production may keep moving, but the knowledge disappears with the moment. Reestablishing priorities, ownership, and a shared reference point helps teams solve the immediate problem without losing what they learned along the way.
2. A past decision is still driving the production.
A decision can be the right move at one point. And the wrong decision six months later. Budgets shift, teams change, new information surfaces, and technology evolves. What worked for one phase of production may become a constraint in the next.
The challenge is recognizing when an earlier choice becomes a constraint, then recalibrating the work around what production needs now.
3. The production has become fragmented.
Teams, vendors, tools, assets, and information become siloed. Work gets duplicated, ownership becomes unclear, reporting stops reflecting the full picture, and different groups start solving the same problems in different ways.
The goal is not to add more process. It is to identify where fragmentation creates friction, streamline what can be shared or standardized, and give teams the tools, information, and structure they need to work effectively together.
One informed decision can streamline an entire production, protect the budget, and get better work to the finish line faster.
Where I Come In
I’m brought in when a production, team, or technology initiative needs an experienced, independent perspective and a practical path forward.
I work across creative direction, production leadership, and technology to:
Identify where workflows, tools, communication, or structure are costing time and money
Evaluate AI and emerging technologies against current creative and production needs
Design and test practical workflows and technical approaches before committing resources at scale
Streamline tools, processes, teams, and vendor relationships where complexity lives
Socialize new tools and technologies, helping teams understand their value before asking them to change how they work
Train and enable teams to adopt new tools, workflows, and technologies with confidence
Align creative, production, and technical teams with vendors around a shared approach
Provide senior leadership, problem-solving, and course correction when productions become complex
Selected Impact
Standardized a facial animation workflow across six external game studios, replacing fragmented approaches with a shared production system that improved consistency, reduced duplicated problem-solving, and could scale across vendors.
Restructured animation production across international teams, matching work to team strengths and changing the review cadence to improve quality and output within weeks while keeping the production moving.
Turned more than 80 stakeholder conversations into an actionable studio-wide production strategy, including shared recommendations and a 386-page knowledge hub designed to reduce duplicated work, accelerate onboarding, and make production information easier to find and reuse.
Develop and test hybrid AI production workflows through my own films, working hands-on from creative development through final delivery to determine where generative tools increase productivity, where traditional methods remain stronger, and where production resources are best spent.
Build training and enablement systems that help artists adopt new tools faster, translating unfamiliar technology into practical workflows so teams can become productive without leaving productions stalled while everyone figures out what comes next.
How I Work
I listen. I take notes. I ask pointed questions. The people in the trenches understand where the friction is. The challenge is creating trust in the conversation to uncover the real issues.
From there, I work to test assumptions, identify practical options, and find a path forward.
The goal is not to throw a wrench into production. It is to create clarity so people can make better decisions, eliminate redundant work, use resources more effectively, and keep production flowing.
Because at the end of the day, the work is only as good as the people doing it. And people do better work when they enjoy showing up.
Let’s Talk
If your team needs clearer direction, a stronger production strategy, or a practical path through a creative, technical, or workflow challenge, I’d love to hear what you’re building.