Production Experience

2001 - Present 3D Artist Los Angeles, CA

Compositor/Designer Abissnet Angst Vfx
Cg Supervisor Supima Cotton Sin Factory Media
Lighting TD/ Compositor Sony Pictures Imageworks Beowulf
CG supervisor Sin Factory Productions Supima Cotton
Compositing/Design ABC promos Engine Room
3d/2d Generalist THEM upcoming Fox serial Engine Room
Design/motion graphics TAB energy drink
3d/2d Generalist Digital Kitchen Target commercial
3d/2d Generalist New Wave Entertainment Disney Channel Rebrand
Animation Director Master Cylinder Zach Wylde music video
3d generalist Engine Room NBC 4 HD promo
Instructor 'Maya Fasttrack' Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Instructor 'Introduction to Compositing' Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Instructor 'Lighting and Rendering' Gnomon School of Visual Effects
CG Supervisor Cannon commercial Sin Factory Productions
Lookdev/Lighting TD Engine Room Halloween Town (for Disney)
R&D TD/Compositor Fast and Furious, Tokyo Drift New Wave Entertainment
3d Generalist/Compositor Dark City ReRelease VSquared Labs
3d Generalist/Compositor JC Penney Jam VSquared Labs
Lighting Technical Director Rhythm&Hues Studios Superman Returns
Lighting Technical Director Rhythm&Hues Studios Narnia-The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
VFX supervisor Supima Cotton NY Fashion Week promo
3d Generalist/Compositor Ziggy Marley music video Cartel Post
Designer/Compositor Coca-Cola/Full Throttle campaign
Lighting Technical Director/Compositor Sony Pictures Imageworks Zathura
Hard-surface Modeller Sony Pictures Imageworks Doug Chiang's Robota
Lighting Technical Director/Look development/Compositor Sony Pictures Imageworks Polar Express
3d animator/compositor for Bon Jovi concert visuals, with VSquared Labs.
Set Modeller 'First Flight' Animated Short - Dreamworks SKG
Vistarama HD project for Institute of Creative Technologies
Virtual set and intro animation for 'Last Comic Standing' NBC show.
Trailer design for 'Master & Commander' at Avatar Studios. (3D Artist)
Caesar, TNT miniseries at LookFX (cleanup, dustbust, roto)
Korn DVD menus at V2 Labs. (3D Artist, Compositing, Editing)
Korn concert visuals at V2 Labs. (3D Artist, Compositing)

1996 - 2001 Other Commercial Kuke Pictures Tirana, Albania

Co-owned and art dir. pre and and post production studio.
Directed, managed, effects, audio and editing for TV. Commercials,
music video clips, documentaries, long and short form,
broadcast graphics, web. Clients include Coca Cola,
Siemens, European Broadcast Union, United Nations, World Bank etc.

Skills

3D Maya, 3dsmax,Houdini
Rendering Maya, Renderman, Mantra, 3dsmax, Mtor, familiar with MentalRay, Turtle
Texturing Deep Paint, Photoshop, Painter
Composting Shake, Combustion, After Effects, Digital Fusion, familiar Chalice and Rayz
Editing Premiere, Incite, familiar with Avid
Sound Sound Forge, Cool Edit
Tracking Boujou, Matchmover
Other SPI proprietary, R&H proprietary, Retimer, Stitcher

Languages

English
French
German
Italian
Bulgarian
familiar with slavic languages.

Education and Training

Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Workshop on Set Lighting at California Institute Of Arts with Kris Malkiewicz
Wilshire English Language Center
American University in Bulgaria 2 year studies in Literature, Sociology
Journalism and Intl Relations.
Linguistics High School Tirana, Albania

References and letters of recommendation

upon request