About

I'm Todd Patton, and I've been creating visual and audio content for close to two decades under Utopia Media Productions, now Utopia Media Collective.

What started as a passion for music production and video has grown into something I never expected. Today I blend traditional creative storytelling with AI-powered tools to produce animated music videos, book trailers, and small business commercials that look and feel like they came from a full production studio.

My process sits at the intersection of human creativity and AI technology. I write, direct, and produce every project myself, using tools like Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and InDesign alongside AI platforms including Runway, Claude, and Suno. The AI doesn't replace the creative vision. It accelerates it. I still write the concepts, build the storyboards, direct the visual style, and make every editorial decision. The technology lets me deliver cinematic results faster and more affordably than traditional production pipelines.

I'm not interested in mass-produced AI content. Every project gets personal attention, a real creative process, and a finished product that feels intentional, not generated.

This isn't a side hustle I started last month. Here's what nearly 20 years of creative production looks like:

Music: Four hybrid AI music projects released under the Utopia Media umbrella, including J.T. & The Plastic Garden Band (nearly 2 million Spotify streams), Oceans in Orbit, ArcLight, and ZinGroove. I write my own songs and blend my own instruments. Every release is a genuine creative collaboration between human songwriting and AI-assisted production.

Video: Over 300 videos produced for my One Seed One World YouTube channel (11,000+ subscribers), covering gardening, homesteading, and backyard chickens. I also created History with Henry, a series of 19 animated historical videos narrated by Henry the Fox.

Books: Author and illustrator of "The Adventures of Momo & Crinkles" children's book series, plus "The Echostone Chronicles: Seed of Fate" (currently in production). Book layouts designed in Adobe InDesign, published through Amazon KDP.

Digital Products: Created and sold educational PDFs and guides, built with a combination of original content and AI-assisted design and workflow tools.

Whether you're hiring me for a project or looking at what I can do for your organization, here's the short version: I know how to take an idea from concept to finished product using the full range of modern creative tools. I've done it hundreds of times across music, video, animation, publishing, and digital products. I understand both the creative side and the operational side, and I know how to use AI as a real production tool, not a novelty.

Want to work together?