Art Director - Illustrator

Skills:

• Graphic design with Adobe, Macromedia and Corel products
• Art direction, illustration, storyboard, matté painting, concept art
• Modeling with 3D Studio Max, XSI Softimage, Z-Brush, MudBox, Silo (basic knowledge)
• System administration, hardware and software maintenance and upgrades
• Considerable experience in disaster recovery, performance tuning, system reliability and security
• Technical support of desktop systems
• Using Genius and Wacom Pen Tablets
• Digital and analog drawing, painting
• Digital and analog photography

Hardware:

• PC Desktop systems and home computers
• Digital cameras and analog cameras

Software:

• Microsoft Windows (Vista, XP, 98, 95)
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
• Adobe CS4 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, In-Design, Flash) and older versions
• Corel Draw X3 and older versions
• Corel Painter
• Modeling with XSI Softimage, Z-Brush, MudBox, Silo, Vue
• Adobe After Effects, Fusion (for color correction)

Work Experience:

04/2008 –present (full-time)
»Open Studio« Animation and postproduction studio (openstudio.rs) Belgrade, Serbia.

• Currently employed as a full-time art director
• Duties: concept art for commercials, character concept art, storyboard, illustration, matte-painting, graphic design, color correction, making decisions of what is good enough in artistic way.

07/2007 – 12/2007 – present (freelance)
Book publishing Company »Gumboot Books«, (gumbootbooks.ca) Vancouver BC, Canada.

• 5 months contract job as Illustrator and Graphic Designer.
• In January 2008 additional logo design for book packages.

06/2005 – 06/2006 (freelance)
Book publishing Company Kreativni centar (kreativnicentar.rs) Belgrade, Serbia.

• Contract job as an Illustrator. I have illustrated two YA novels.
• Those illustrations are published in books: “Johnny Coffin School-dazed” and “Johnny Coffin Diaries” (“Džoni Kofin i tajanstvena svetlost” i “Dnevnik Džonija Kofina”).

10/2003 – 03/2005
Office3000 Multimedia Studio, Novi Sad, Serbia.

• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• 3D modeling of industrial products and packaging
• Art direction of 3D based TV commercial

2001 – 2003 (freelance)
Zavod za izdavanje udzbenika Book and textbook publishing Company, Novi Sad - Belgrade, Serbia

• Graphic Design
• Illustration
• Pre-press

06/1999 – 10/2001 (full-time)
Piperi Public printing firm, Novi Sad, Serbia

• Graphic Design
• Pre-press

Education:

• 4 years Academy Of Arts University Of Novi Sad – bachelor degree in Graphic Design.

Exhibitions:

• Muzej Matice Srpske Novi Sad, Serbia. 2005.
• Galery »TABLEAU« Novi Sad, Serbia. 2005.
• Goethe-Institut Belgrade, Serbia. 2007.
• The High School of Art and Design “Bogdan Suput” Novi Sad, Serbia. 2008.

Miscellaneous Skills and Training:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent PC computer skills.
• Basic MAC computer skills.
• Art-director with modern concept.
• Drummer - percussionist.

Languages:

• Serbian - Fluent - Full Knowledge
• English - Conversational - Advanced