CG SKILLS

Visual effects animation (expert field):

  • Fluid dynamics – fire&smoke: FumeFX

  • Liquids : Realflow,  Glu3D

  • Rigid body, fragmentation dynamics: Rayfire/Nvidia(Ageia, Novodex) PhysX, Thinking Particles dynamics

  • Particle effects: Particle Flow, Thinking Particles

  • Volumetric effects – Afterburn, FumeFX (ScatterVL for accurate volumetric lighting), Krakatoa

Modeling – procedural, polygonal, sub-div, sculpt – 3DS Max, Silo, Mudbox

Texturing – Photoshop/3DS Max/Mudbox

Rigging/skinning – Rudimentary rigging/skinning in 3DS Max with CAT

Animation – Understanding and application of Disney/Pixar animation principles, animation in 3DS Max with CAT

Shading, lighting, rendering – Photorealistic mental ray shaders/materials. Both traditional (direct) and modern (indirect) CG lighting skills and understanding; physically correct gamma-linear workflow, photometrics. Fundamental skills with the other poppular raytracers.

Camera tracking – PFTrack

Compositing and post-production – Fusion, Nuke, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 2010 – current: FX artist on several feature film productions in Pixomondo Berlin

Oct 2009 – Jan 2010: Produced the part 1 of the first DVD trainig course about Thinking Particles, for Eat3D

Feb 2009 – May 2009: FX artist on Roland Emmerich’s ‘2012′ at Pixomondo Berlin. Worked in a feature film production environment centered on 3DS Max, with Thinking Particles, FumeFX, Afterburn, Particle Flow and Krakatoa.

April 2007 – Jan 2009: Freelance archtitectural viz. Photorealistic shading, lighting, rendering, compositing.

OTHER CG EXPERIENCE

Spoke at the 2010 End-user event in Utrecht, Netherlands, about layered destruction workflow in 3DS Max

CG workshops lecturer/organizer, New Bulgarian University. Lectures on visual effects, compositing

3DPalace.com low-poly challenge winner, dec 2007 (images in the portfolio)

EDUCATION

Due in 2010/2011: Bachelor in Computer graphics, animation and multimedia – New Bulgarian University, Sofia

Undergrad: 3 years in the Technical University Sofia, Computer sciences

 
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