RYDON Creative
Ryan Donovan
Award-winning creative producer and director turning ambitious ideas into razor-sharp creative work that moves audiences and drives business results. Principal Creative Producer at Capital One. Founder of RYDON Creative, making AI-powered films held to the same craft bar as live action.
Telly Award/Shorty Award/Screened at the United Nations
Featured
Business Days
Independently produced spot crafted with generative AI models Seedance, Kling, Midjourney and ElevenLabs. Spec work, not commissioned by any company.The idea
Business days are so last century. Money should move at the speed of you.
A restaurant owner, a shop counter, a warehouse, a machinist and a bookkeeper working late all hit the same wall: "Payment delayed: 3 business days." The spot stays with the frustration long enough to feel it, then pays off late at night: a stablecoin transfer confirms onchain, and the line lands. You make moves every day, your money should too.
25 seconds / 16:9 / 1080p / 2026
How it was made
- Visual developmentBuilt the world as stills in Midjourney and Nano Banana before any motion, using structured prompt engineering to set shot composition and a color palette of warm tungsten against cool daylight.
- Character design and consistencyDesigned five characters with reference sheets and held face, wardrobe and grade consistent across 19 shots, generating multiple iterations in Seedance and Kling and choosing the strongest model for each shot.
- Custom on-screen UIDesigned fictional banking and stablecoin interfaces, then regenerated every laptop and phone shot with those designs as references so each screen reads cleanly and carries the story.
- Iterative refinement, edit and soundRefined prompts across rounds, curated selects for performance and motion the way an editor chooses coverage, then cut for color cohesion and built voice, music and sound design with ElevenLabs and MiniMax.
Principal Creative Producer, Capital One
Brand films inside a regulated Fortune 500 bank.
Brand films, broadcast spots and social campaigns, produced from concept through delivery.
Find What Fuels You: Lorenzo's Story
Capital One
Creative Concept Developer
Branded series cut into 30-second broadcast and CTV spots in two days. The YouTube versions passed 9.8M views.
Creating Legendary (& Major League) Customer Experiences
Capital One Café
Producer
A longtime Downtown L.A. Café customer at Capital One's events during MLB All-Star Week 2022.
Unveiling NYC's Newest Café Gem
Capital One Café
Producer
A look inside a Capital One Café in New York City.
Selected work
Documentary, campaigns and award-winning direction.
When We Reach
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Director, Writer, Producer
A three-film PTSD and suicide prevention series, including an animated episode. Telly Award, Best Video Direction (Social Impact).
Yours in Power (Trailer)
The ONE Campaign
Executive Producer, Director, Editor
A three-part documentary on women activists, shot in Nigeria, Benin and South Africa. Screened at the United Nations.
Girls Count (Launch Film)
The ONE Campaign with Droga5 and YouTube
Production Lead
The world's longest digital video petition for girls' education. 750,000 people made videos, helping secure $3B in education funding.
How Africa Is Hacking Its Energy Crisis
Discovery Digital Networks
Co-Producer, with journalist Laura Ling
Filmed in Tanzania. Shorty Award.
About
The idea is the spark. Creative is the fire.
I’m an award-winning creative director, brand strategist, video producer, photographer & content marketer with over 13 years of experience developing high-impact global creative campaigns, brand productions, & experiential activations for Fortune 500 companies, advocacy NGOs, creative agencies, & international organizations.
I’ve led global teams of designers, filmmakers, editors, copywriters & social media strategists to deliver razor-sharp creative that inspires action, cultivates brand equity, and drives business results.
I bring a seasoned background in creative campaign development, film production, video editing, brand redesigns & creative partnership management with consumer brands like Apple, Amazon, & Fossil, as well as media platforms like YouTube, BuzzFeed, & The New York Times.
As generative AI rapidly transforms the creative landscape, I’ve jumped headfirst into AI-powered filmmaking, building new production workflows and mastering emerging tools that are redefining what’s possible. Because keeping a razor-sharp creative mind means staying fluent in the technologies, techniques, and storytelling craft shaping the future of creative production.
I’m currently channeling my brainpower as a Principal Creative Producer at Capital One.
Telly Award / Shorty Award / PR Daily Award
- 2025 to nowPrincipal Creative Producer
Capital One - 2021 to 2025Senior Creative Producer
Capital One - 2024 to nowFounder
RYDON Creative, independent creative studio - 2020 to 2021Creative Production Director & Client Lead
Green Buzz Agency - 2015 to 2020Creative Production Manager
The ONE Campaign
Contact
Let's make something.
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