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title: "About Zach Shallbetter"
description: "Meet Zach Shallbetter, the artist, designer and creative technologist behind Creative MCP, open local tools that connect AI agents to creative software."
url: https://creativemcp.com/about.html
author: Zach Shallbetter (https://creativemcp.com/about.html)
modified: 2026-11-03T18:50:41-08:00
site: Creative MCP (https://creativemcp.com/, index: https://creativemcp.com/llms.txt)
copyright: © 2026 Zach Shallbetter (https://github.com/zachshallbetter/creative-mcp/blob/main/NOTICE.md)
---

The person behind Creative MCP

# An artist who builds creative software.

Zach Shallbetter is an artist, designer, and creative technologist based in Spokane, Washington. He founded Snack Studio and created Creative MCP. It brings his Adobe MCP and Blender MCP projects together. The tools connect AI agents with creative software.
Meet Zach

[Image: Illustrated portrait of Zach Shallbetter seated in a vivid, paint-filled creative studio]

Zach Shallbetter · artist, designer, creative technologist

Why Creative MCP exists

## Creative work deserves tools that understand the work.

Creative MCP connects AI agents to the software used by artists and designers. Each implementation gives an MCP client a local path into a creative tool. Instructions and context can meet real documents, artwork, scenes, and timelines.

The aim is practical: make creative software easier to reach through conversation and code. The application and its files stay in the workflow. So does the creator’s judgment.

What makes it different

## Built for creative practice. Clear about its limits.

01

### Close to the work

Local MCP servers connect agents with supported desktop applications and the work already open there.

02

### Made for distinct tools

InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Blender each have different creative surfaces and implementation needs.

03

### Evidence stays visible

The Adobe Capability Atlas separates documented features, automation routes, implementation coverage, checks, and live-app validation.

[Explore the implementations →](https://creativemcp.com/projects.html)[Read the Capability Atlas →](https://creativemcp.com/capability-atlas.html)[Browse the documentation →](https://creativemcp.com/docs/)

A practice across art and technology

## Drawing led to creative technology.

Zach’s practice began with drawing, illustration, comics, and murals. It grew into interface design, interactive media, and creative production software.

For more than twenty years, he has worked between visual storytelling and technical implementation. Recent projects include computer-vision tools for video production. They support rotoscoping, object callouts, and masking. His [InDesign MCP server exposes 137 tools](https://github.com/zachshallbetter/adobe-mcp/tree/main/packages/indesign).

Creative MCP extends that work across Adobe applications and Blender. It connects code and conversation to the tools artists and designers use.

About the creator

## Zach Shallbetter

Zach approaches creative software as an artist who builds his own tools. He wants creators to express an idea, shape the result, and understand what their tools are doing.

Artist · Designer · Creative technologist · Spokane, Washington

[Portfolio zachshallbetter.com](https://zachshallbetter.com/) [GitHub github.com/zachshallbetter](https://github.com/zachshallbetter) [LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/zachshallbetter](https://linkedin.com/in/zachshallbetter)

## Ready to try it?

On a Mac, one installer finds your creative apps and MCP clients, shows its plan, then installs, registers and checks every server.

```
brew tap zachshallbetter/tap
brew trust zachshallbetter/tap
brew install zachshallbetter/tap/creative-mcp
creative-mcp setup
```

[Every setup option →](https://creativemcp.com/start.html)[What the installer does →](https://creativemcp.com/docs/cli.html#installer)