Michael M. Kadrie
Creative Director | Producer/Director | Writer | ActorMichael has been entertaining people most of his life. At an early age, he started playing drums, acting and working on his artistic abilities. He began acting in summer theater and would later appear in TV commercials and land extra rolls in feature films. Music soon took over as his main passion and by the time he was 19, Michael was playing in front of large crowds.
In 1986, Michael would put his acting to use by combining his improvisational skills with his natural ability to mimic famous voices, such as Bullwinkle, and began making regular appearances on the Scott Paulsen Radio Show on Pittsburgh’s, WDVE. This would soon parlay into a short-lived career in doing voice-overs for radio commercials.
In 1991, Michael would get his first taste at producing music as he entered the studio to co-produce a charity song to which he penned the lyrics. Dream Makers was a local “We Are The World” type effort where he gathered musicians of all types from around the Pittsburgh area to take part in singing and playing on the song that would get notable air play as well as a Rockumentary that would air on TV. 5 years later, he was at it again. Only this time, Michael decided to produce a full-length CD of local bands performing classic rock hits. And the Power-hitters Tribute to Classic Rock was recorded and released to raise money for the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation.
To further his advancement on his design capabilities, Michael decided to attend Duquesne University in Pittsburgh to obtain a degree in Multimedia Technologies. It was here that Michael fell in love with everything related to Multimedia Design including computer animation.
In 2009, Michael formed a division of his company Atlas Design Group that was to become Zoetifex Entertainment. Almost immediately, he got the chance to put together a demonstration of Zoetifex’ animation capabilities, for a gentleman in New York who was looking for a company to produce a new TV Series based on re-hashed vintage audio. So Michael came up with the idea of taking the audio from Alfred Hitchcock’s 5 minute long trailer for his movie “The Birds”. Michael then began to build his pipeline of talented artists. People who have worked for the largest animation studios from around the world. And since January of 2010, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Birds (Animated Short) has now appeared in three film festivals all around the world, and has been featured on such sites as Aniboom, where it has gained much notoriety.
In the years since, Michael has been hard at work continuing to build the Zoetifex pipeline, make key relationships and create new projects that will become future productions for Zoetifex Entertainment.
A BRIEF SNAPSHOPT OF MY EXPERIENCE
Creative Director – 24 years Experience
Creative Agency – 13 years Experience
Producer – 28 years Experience
Director – 23 years Experience
Public Speaker – 17 years Experience
Writer – 21 years Experience
Career Objective
To serve as creative director/producer for companies that will allow me to utilize my creative, communication, leadership and management skills, and to benefit those who are focused on continued improvement of their creative product, organizational growth and the success of their clients.
Career Highlights
• 20 ✚ years experience as creative director art director
• Served as Producer/Director/Creative Director for dozens of VFX projects and 2D & 3D animated films/projects
• Solely responsible for all marketing collateral for the #1 Broker/Dealer in Pittsburgh (per Pittsburgh Business Times)
• Assembled a leadership team to purchase Atlas Design Group from BlueVase Securities
• Serving as featured judge for the Web Awards since 2001
• Branded, ID’d and helped develop UI/UX for new social media mobile app
• Providing expert advice and helping shape the curriculum of Pittsburgh Technical College as a member of their Board of Advisors since 2001
• Grew Atlas Design Group to over 100 clients, both locally and nationally, in more than a dozen markets within 6 years
• Conceived and lead production of Piece of the Pride (flash-based on-line application) for CalU and Nationally
• Conceptualized and created animated intro to CalU Football games for their stadium’s new Jumbotron
• Conceptualized and Produced an animated short that has appeared in several film festivals world-wide
• Created Motion Graphics Animation for VisitPittsburgh that won the 2013 Silver Telly Award
• Public Speaker to students entering into the field of animation and other creative design fields and to other business owners in the industry
• A career of helping companies from start-up to Fortune 500 realize a vision and/or new direction for their Brand
Demo Reel
Last Updated 2024
My latest Demo Reel that is a diverse display of my career’s work. A lot of my career is in here. Freelance work, Atlas Design Group, Zoetifex Entertainment, Apple Box Studios and The Chronicles of Christ. All are represented in the minute and a half reel. For a better look at some of these projects, I invite you to check out my Animation and Video Portfolio.
If you have any questions about my work, or you have a video project that you need my help with, please feel free to Contact Me.
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