We’re looking forward to introducing you to Alec Jerome. Check out our conversation below.
Hi Alec , thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What are you most proud of building — that nobody sees?
I’m proud to have built my personal brand ecosystem over the last several years. All of my once small time ideas have become things my community references constantly and it reminds me that there was a time where I felt an enormous pressure to proliferate my ideas while starting from ground zero. Now I have concepts that are interchangeable and compatible.
For example, my brand 3DPPL can be used to create content for my other brand Itsnateazy and both of those brands can be featured inside my show DreamLink.Mobile all while I can make personal stuff from my main/personal page Alecjerome.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Alec Jerome Kreisberg, a multimedia artist, multi-instrumentalist, and as I like to describe myself, a multidreamer. Throughout my lifetime I’ve juggled audio and visual art in the forms of creating cartoons, movies, music, games, and short-form content for social media.
I started learning music and 3D animation at a very young age, which was rare for an early 90s millennial. In a way, I always felt like a Gen Z or even Gen Alpha prototype, shaped early by software and digital play. With access to the esoteric program Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, I was experimenting as a virtual filmmaker at just 5 years old.
I started a YouTube page in middle school that gained some local success and launched me into a lifetime of creating funny content alongside my art and music. What began as skits and oddball videos eventually became a way of life, and over time I found ways to combine humor, visuals, and sound into a single practice.
A few years later, I won third place in a newspaper drawing contest, with the prize being an Xbox. That console, paired with a borrowed Spanish copy of Halo 2, unexpectedly set me on my path. I stumbled into a community of underground machinima creators, recording footage with a capture card and piecing together films on a cracked version of Sony Vegas. The Halo 3 cinema mode gave me my first true taste of digital filmmaking inside a game engine, foreshadowing my later work with professional tools like Cinema 4D, Blender, Unreal Engine, and Unity.
After graduating from the music magnet program at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High and enduring the loss of my mother to cancer in 2011 and one of my closest collaborators to a train accident in 2014, I became hypervigilant about pursuing my career as a full-time artist. Those tragedies cemented my unshakable commitment: never stop creating, and always see projects through.
I went on to work with a wide array of artists in the Miami community, contributing graphics, music videos, sound design, and animation while sharpening my own craft. Graduating from New World School of the Arts College (UF) in 2018, I launched my brand 3DPPL, positioning myself as a pioneer in 3D art and augmented reality. My filters for Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat accumulated millions of impressions and were used by celebrities and emerging artists alike.
At the same time, I was developing Itsnateazy, a satirical 2D hand-drawn cartoon exploring the absurdities of youth culture in Miami. What began as an animated series has since evolved into a community-driven forum where people can submit their real-world grievances, blurring the line between art and lived experience.
In 2020, I hosted my own studio in the Design District, introducing the Miami scene to glitch art, VR, and immersive tech while reactivating the city’s dance music pulse with hybrid art-and-music parties.
The crypto and NFT boom was another turning point, pushing me deeper into the digital art world. Even after the market cooled, the hunger to keep experimenting remained. Around that time I connected with one of the best Smurfs in town who was running a hidden theater in Little Haiti. Over two years we developed Dream Arcade, a surreal live show born from one of my earliest dreamscapes: a retro arcade machine that could teleport dreamers to alternate worlds. The shows combined live performance, VR and AR, costumes, and cinematic animation in ways Miami had never seen. When the theater run ended, the project transformed into DreamLink Mobile, a portable, satirical spin on the cable company model. Tired of dreaming alone? Now you don’t have to. DreamLink Mobile, download the app today and start multidreaming, baby.
As AI technology accelerated, so did my practice. My focus shifted from purely 3D and film-based production to integrating generative AI into performance, video, and interactive art. One of my most notable projects to date was producing a 2025 music video for Promiseland featuring Julian Casablancas, melding AI with live action to create a new kind of hybrid visual language.
I am also deeply active in music. As a violinist, cellist, guitarist, vocalist, bassist, and synth player, I produce original material in collaboration with Eternal Studios Miami. In 2023, I lost my close friend and collaborator Gino Cortazar, a beloved Miami musician. In the wake of his passing, I created a posthumous music video and rollout content for his work, employing AI not as a gimmick, but as a way to preserve and honor his legacy. It became, in many ways, proof of an ethical and deeply human use of AI in art.
Today, my work continues to branch across multiple fronts:
3DPPL is still active, offering clients unique content that incorporates 3D workflows and immersive design.
Itsnateazy lives on as both animation and a communal outlet for people to air their everyday frustrations.
Dream Arcade and DreamLink Mobile remain central, evolving platforms for shared dream experiences.
SlopHouse.TV, my new collaboration with a local Miami comedian, serves as a home for the worst (and funniest) “slop” we accidentally or purposely generate using AI.
And my long-running concept Jazz Lawyer, first sketched in high school back in 2010, has recently resonated with both the music community and, fittingly, the lawyer community.
Through all these incarnations, from YouTube skits to Halo machinima, from Dream Arcade to posthumous tributes, the thread remains the same. My work is about bending mediums, bending genres, and bending reality, always pushing toward the next experiment, the next laugh, the next dream.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. Who taught you the most about work?
Working with my brother Aaron over the last 10 years taught me the importance of resilience and finishing what you start in filmmaking and editing. More than a decade ago, we would push through 10–12 hour editing sessions when I still had so much to learn. Those long days set the foundation for my discipline and work ethic. Together, we’ve always taken pride in going above and beyond for our documentary clients, and that same commitment has carried over into my personal work as well.
What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
My life was heavily impacted by the death of my uncle, godfather, and mother both as a result of cancer. Losing such close family to natural causes made me realize at a young age that everything is out of our control except for our reactions.
Later in life after losing two of my very close friends and ironically musical collaborators who both played guitar I went through periods of depression that led to periods of extreme lethargy, depression, and lack of self care in terms of sleep, diet, and exercise.
These events laid a foundation for a rocky long term romantic relationship that was more based on shared trauma rather than true compatibility.
At this point in my life I feel I’ve healed and grown far passed the depths of the effects of these situations and hope I help others avoid certain pitfalls in life and not succumb to an overindulgence in depression and self isolation.
Everyone has a different path but I truly believe my passion for making music regardless of whether or not I’ve published much have it has guided and protected me and led me to more meaningful relationships.
Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? Is the public version of you the real you?
It’s taken a while but I finally feel like I’ve managed to share my inner world with the public and kind of show many sides of myself through my various forms of expression.
Okay, so before we go, let’s tackle one more area. Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
Definitely the former. I knew from a very young age I would be an artist that was involved in music and animation. I had “professionals” in college try to tell me to focus on only one path but they didn’t understand that for me the only path forward was for my work across all mediums to be in a constant ecosystem with each other.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.alecjerome.com
- Instagram: alecjerome
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alecjeromekreisberg/
- Twitter: https://x.com/jaquebeast
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alec.AK/?locale=es_LA
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Alec.Jerome
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/alecjerome
