Brian Drewes: AI & Human Provenance

Brian Drewes: AI & Human Provenance

I’m interested in how creative work scales without losing its integrity. My career has lived at the intersection of storytelling, technology, and production reality—where ambitious ideas meet real constraints. I focus on the systems beneath the work: how teams collaborate, how decisions accumulate and how tools quietly shape what’s possible. This becomes ever more important with Generative Ai and hybrid pipelines

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Recent Work:
focus on the practical deployment of artificial intelligence in creative and production environments—particularly issues of workflow design, human oversight, authorship, provenance, and organizational trust.

ZERO VFX
Co-founded and led the company for over a decade, helping establish it as a respected creative studio known for both artistic excellence and technical rigor. In 2022, ZERO VFX was acquired by private equity and is now part of a global alliance of studios.

ZYNC
Served as CEO and named inventor of ZYNC, the industry’s first cloud-based rendering platform. ZYNC enabled studios to access elastic compute at scale and materially changed production workflows across film and television before being acquired by Google in 2014.

I’ve worked across creative, technical, and executive roles and bring a systems-level perspective informed by real production constraints and long-term operational considerations. I enjoy conversations with people thinking seriously about these questions.