Computer Skills
Platforms:
Windows / MacOSX / Linux
Software:
Alias/Wavefront Maya / Mental Ray / Vray, 3D Studio MAX, After Effects, NUKE, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Z-Brush, Unity 3D, Syntheyes, PF Track, Boujou, Maya Live, Pro Tools, Reason.
Traditional:
Life drawing, matte paintings, traditional and Byzantine painting, 2D animation, storyboarding.
Special Skills
● Game Design for PC Games (design of backgrounds and characters)
● Wood sculpture
● Sound Effects & Music composition
● Photography
● Bilingual (fluent in Greek)
● Wood sculpture
● Sound Effects & Music composition
● Photography
● Bilingual (fluent in Greek)
Work Experience
ANIMATION FILM DIRECTOR / VFX SUPERVISOR: November 2014 - Present
Director of Animated and Live Action Short Films as well as VFX Supervisor for various projects.
1K STUDIOS: September 2007 - November 2014
VFX Supervisor and Sr. 3D Animator: Supervised and led large-scale projects; specialized in Stereoscopic 3D, Animation, Rigging, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Matte Paintings and Motion Graphics for 3D Blu-Ray / Blu-Ray / DVD Menus, Apps, Trailers, Sizzle Reels, Commercials and Feature Films.
Projects: “Rise of Incarnates,” “Hello Hero,” “Captain America I & II,” “StarTrek: Into the Darkness,” “Tron Legacy,” “Tron,” “Thor I & II,” “IronMan I & II,” “Thunderbirds Are Go,” “Brave,” “Planes,” “Peter Pan,” “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” “Hugo,” “John Carter of Mars,” “Oz: The Great and Powerful,” “Rio,” “Epic Mickey 2,” “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Body Beast,” “Transformers,” “Transformers NFL,” “Indiana Jones Trilogy,” “StarTrek: Motion Picture Collection,” “Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary.”
Awards: The Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award “Home Entertainment Print – DVD Menus” for IRONMAN.
VISCERAL IMAGE PRODUCTIONS: May 2009 – January 2010; September 2010 - January 2011
CG Generalist: Specialized in Stereoscopic 3D, Animation, Rigging, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing and Matte Paintings for IMAX 3D Documentaries.
Projects: “Tornado Alley 3D,” “Arabia 3D”
PACIFIC TITLE AND ART STUDIO: September 2007 - 2009
3D Generalist: Specialized in Stereoscopic 3D, Animation, Rigging, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Matte Paintings and Motion Graphics for Feature Films Trailers, Sizzle Reels and Commercials.
Projects: “Terminator - Salvation,” “Fast & Furious IV,” “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” “4th Kind,” “Bunker Hill,” “Eagle Eye,” “Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” “MGM Logo,” “The Tale of Despereaux,” “Speed Racer,” “Appaloosa,” “Fear Itself,” “Nim’s Island,” “The Happening,” “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan,” “Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk,” “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.”
RED EYE FILMWORKS: March 2007 – August 2007
3D Generalist: Specialized in Animation, Rigging, Texturing, Shading, Lighting, Rendering, Compositing, Matte
Paintings and Motion Graphics for Feature Films, Animated Films, Trailers, Sizzle Reels and Commercials.
Projects: “Tak and the Power of Juju,” “Transformers: Behind the Scenes,” “Zack & Cody,” “Transmorphers.”
TIME LAPSE PICTURES: September 2007
3D Artist: Character rigging & additional character modeling.
Projects: “The Little Mouse That Wanted to Touch a Star.”
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE ANIMATION DEPARTMENT: February 2005 – February 2007
Projects: “Bug Me Deadly” - Character Animation for a short film produced by the Academy of Entertainment and
Technology of Santa Monica College.
CHAMBER OF PLASTIC ARTS (Official State Organization, Greece): 1998 – 2004
2D Artist: Byzantine decorative painting, gold leaf decoration as well as clothes painting.
Projects: “Holy Trinity Cathedral” (Piraeus, Greece); “Saint John Cathedral” (Rendis, Greece); “Church of Metamorphosis” (Itea, Greece); “Public Foundation of the Greek Christian Union (Athens, Greece).”
Education
SANTA MONICA COLLEGE, Academy of Entertainment & Technology, 2004 – 2006
● Certification: Digital Computer Animation & Visual Effects – December 2006
● Scholarship Award: Mary Pickford Foundation Award – 2005 (awarded for extraordinary scholarship in Digital Computer Animation & Visual Effects)
TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL UNIVERSITY, Chalkida, Greece
● Major: Mechanical Engineering, 1999 – 2003
TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
● Specialization in Design of Civil Engineering & Architectural Works, 1995 – 1998
● Scholarship Award: Student of Extraordinary Achievement – 1998
● Scholarship Award: Student of Extraordinary Achievement – 1998