Johnnie Semerad

I grew up in Schenectady New York. Played football and was captain of the wrestling team. My dream was to move to New York City and become an artist. At eighteen I attended Pratt Institute to become the next great American illustrator. The fine art career quickly gave way to a career in computers and special effects. QuietMan was started a few years later. An innovative company with many firsts. The first Beatles music video, the first prime time Emmy for a tv commercial, the first five second tv commercials. QuietMan has won virtually every advertising award, Emmys and even a Grammy. We’ve worked on over 150 Super Bowl commercials. I’ve directed many television commercials, live action and animation. We also developed an extremely robust live animation system that was used on well over 100 projects. Recently I did an animated short that has gotten into over 70 film festivals, won 22 awards and become academy award eligible. I will tell you my greatest joys are my daughters Emma and Dara.