Lecturers

Lecturers 2013

Lecturers in Computer Space 2013:


Martin Punchev 2D/3D character concept artist. He started as a 3D modeller in the advertising industry, then turned his head to his real passion - computer games. He has worked as a Technical Art Director at Masthead Studios and is currently freelancing in concept art, illustrations and sculpting characters for world-famous computer games and 3D prints of toys. Personal website Behance CGHub	Tsvetomir Georgiev Started as a character artist in the industry of computer games, Tsvetomir is now one of the best character artists in the world. He works for the Hollywood-based The Aaron Sims Company and has created creatures and concepts for movies such as "Transformers 3", "Clash of the Titans", "The Green Lantern", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", "Percy Jackson & The Lightning Thief" and many more. CGHub	Miroslav Petrov Illustrator, concept artist, art director and passionate gamer. Started drawing at the age of 16, while still playing computer games 10 hours a day, he is now a renown artist, doing freelance art works for some of the best companies in the field of computer and board games. Personal website Behance CGHub

Kremena Ganeva Compositing artist with huge experience as Senior Compositor and Compositing Supervisor for movies like "Pacific Rim", "Olympus Has Fallen", "The Expendables" and it's sequence, "Conan The Barbarian", "Spiders 3D", "Rambo IV" and many more. She is currently employed at Worldwide FX and formerly worked in VFX houses like Pixomondo and Ghost A/S. Vimeo IMDB	Alessio Bertotti 3D generalist and compositor, really passionate about Computer Graphic and Visual Effects. Worked as a compositor and visualizer at Pixomondo on the feature film "After Earth", commercials for BMW and Mercedes-Benz, as well as many other projects. Has vast experience in the advertising industry. Personal website Behance	Hristo Velev FX Artist / Technical Director and tutor. He is specialized in destruction and complex dynamics. He has showed his abilities in studios like Scanline VFX and Pixomondo, working on top-notch Hollywood projects like "Iron Man 3", "Sucker Punch", "2012", "Hinderburg" and "Red Tails". He has published several tutorials, related to particle simulations in Eat3D.com and fxphd. Personal website Youtube Vimeo

Florent Cachot Artist, specialized in matte painting, compositing and FX. Worked in several VFX companies such as Mokko Studio and Vision Globale, where he created CG snow and different effects for the movie "Upside Down", as well as freelancing and working for other companies. Personal website Behance	Timucin Ozger FX Artist / Technical Director with broad knowledge of every aspect in the 3D process, but focused on creating natural phenomena and desctruction. He works as a professional on Hollywood productions like "Olympus Has Fallen", "Hercules 3D" and TBA titles like "Homefront" and "The Expendables 3". Vimeo IMDB	Pedro Rivero He is a producer, director and screenwriter of “Birdboy” (2010), Goya Award for the Best Spanish Animated Short Film. Producer, director and screenwriter of "La Crisis Carnívora" (2007), the first Spanish feature film in Flash animation for theatres. Screenwriter for several TV animated series and for the feature film "Goomer", Goya Award for the Best Spanish Animated Feature Film 1999. President of the Basque Screenwriters' Guild 2002-2008. Author of theatrical plays and comic books. IMDB

Ass. Prof. Yohan Yotov He is an assistant professor in the "Graphics" department in the National Academy of Art and for 20 years now he gives his knowledge to the youth. He specialized in intaglio in the Academy for Applied Arts in Vienna. As conduct business, he had teached lectures, participated in workshops, prepared a PhD student and did a mural in countries like Mexico, China, Mongolia, Switzerland. He also had solo exhibitions in Mexico, Equador, Germany, Austria, Poland, Mongolia. For the last several years he teaches Fine Graphic Arts in New Bulgarian University in Sofia.	Damyan Damyanov An artist who is currently teaching "Poster and visual communication" in the National Academy of Art. His work includes numerous book covers, posters, illustrations, postage stamps. He was part of numbers of poster exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad and has two solo exhibitions - in 2009 at the NAA, and in 2011 at the "Helicon" bookstore in Sofia. Curator and participant in the poster exhibition "A Caravan of the Ten Words" in 2009. Author of history of poster and graphic design related articles in the ProGraphica magazine.	Robert Baramov The Varna-born artist graduated at the "Graphics" department in the National Academy of Art in 1994. He is well-known all around the world. He has participated and has been curator in more than 30 international graphic forums in Bulgaria, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Finland, Germany, Spain, Japan, South Korea, China, etc. and has dozens of solo exhibitions and awards in the field of miniature graphics and ex libris. His skills include dry point, etching, in all classical variants plus the possibilities, that the nowadays technologies offer, the skill level enough to be taught at art schools

Doncho Koev Born in 1961 in Sliven, he graduated The University of Veliko Tarnovo in 1991. He works in the area of graphics, miniatures, ex libris, drawing, etc. He has participated in international competitions for graphics and ex libris in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Estonia, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, New York, Taiwan, etc. Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists and the International Association of Plastic Arts. He works in the PMG "Acad. Nikola Obreshkov" - Burgas.	Nikolay Treyman Leading Bulgarian photographer. He is the manager of “Treyman Brothers” photo studio and the leader of the photo club “Paralax”. Made a lot of photo exhibitions among which “The Marsh” and “Orthodox Bulgaria”. He teaches "Philosophy of photography" in Sofia University and is the lead editor of the "Fo - books" library, related to aesthetics and theory of photography.	Ivan Maslarov - Jumbo Creator of the Photo Cafe website. He has graduated with "Cinematography" at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia and the New York Institute of Photography, and has more than 25 years of practical experience in the area of photography. www.photocafe.pro

Lukas Lancko Born in 1984 in Slovakia. After finishing university studies he fell in passion with digital art and computer graphics as completely autodidact. At present he work as freelance graphic designer focused on creating digital illustrations, matte-painting, retouch and postproduction but he also keeps moving forward towards new advanced production techniques and area of 3D graphics. www.isisdesignstudio.com	Mehmet Ali Uzunselvi A pianist and composer. He started his musician life, first with trombone, and then percussion. Gradually, he changed his way to the piano and composition on his musical journey. He studied orchestration with Hasan Uçarsu, counterpoint and fug with Özkan Manav M.S.G.S.Ü Conservatory. Also he studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm in Mozarteum. His works are played in United Organization. In his works of art, the composer evaluates many of the music traditions from Middle East to Far East’s besides the gaining’s of modernism, especially with the instruments of the musicians. The composer, who uses advanced instrument high technique in his works, evaluates the microtonal sound material both within the light of the modernism of the West and within the frame of the modal wisps in the music traditions of the East.	Martin Pflanzer After finishing his bachelor degree of “Art and Multimedia” at the LMU Munich from 2007 to 2010, he lives and works as graphic designer, assistant professor and media artist in Munich. Actual projects are children theatre plays with the group Theater Continental (www.kindertheater-muenchen.info) and media-installations for the exposition www.bildweltkrieg.de.

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