| GENERAL INFO |
| Name: |
Nikolay Vasilev Mihaylov |
| Mobile: |
+359 888 650 441 |
| E-mail: |
nixon@nixonanim.com ; niko_mih@abv.bg |
| ICQ number: |
25185031 |
| Skype: |
nixonman |
| Web site: |
www.nixonanim.com |
| Birth date: |
20.03.1978 |
| Nationality: |
Bulgarian |
| Marital status: |
single |
| Military service: |
served, april 1998 |
| Languages: |
Bulgarian - mother tongue; English - excellent; Russian - spoken; French - spoken. |
| MAJOR INTERESTS |
| Drawing, classical animation, 2D/3D CGI and animation, architectural visualization, special effects, compositing. Journalism and PR. Sports - tennis, swimming. |
| PROFFESSIONAL ADVANCE |
| 11.2004 |
University of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy - Sofia. Teacher in the faculty of Architecture, "3ds max basics" course. |
| 06.2003 - present |
Design studio Artec - Sofia. Consultant and supervisor for architectural visualization and animation. 08-2005 - 11-2007 - Animation Director in Artec media. |
| 12.2003 - present |
3dbg.com - the bulgarian 3D web portal.
One of the founders, writer, editor, moderator. |
| 04.2002 - 07.2003 |
Department "Cinema, advertising and showbusiness" at NBU.Concept, design, realization and maintenance of the web-site of www.nbu.bg/cinema |
| 03.2002 - 06.2005 |
"Cinemaq" Ltd. Graphic design, animation, special effects for TV and film productions, adverts. Head designer for the TV shows "Troublemakers", "Laterna magika", adverts for Germanos Bulgaria. Design, animation and direction of spots for TV MDR, Germany. |
| 03.2001 - 01.2002 |
Studio "Dynamate" - co-founder and CEO with partners George Dimitrov, George Vrabchev and Rusi Hristov. |
05.1996 - 02.1997 |
Programme house "TIVIA" - Cable Television Globo, ditigital video editing with Fast Video Machine and 3D graphics with 3D Studio R4. |
09.1999 |
Channel 1, Bulgarian National Television. Creation of the graphics and animations. |
04.1999 - 08.2000 |
"Kuku Film" Ltd - 2D/3D graphics, digital video editing with DPS Velocity, for the TV show “Night Magazine” |
1993 - present |
Architectural bureau MNM interior and exterior visualizations of commercial and residentianl buildings. |
| EDUCATION |
| 11.2004 - 07.2005 |
Chairman of the student body in NBU. |
| 08.2003 - present |
"entelegentno" - New Bulgarian University's student magazine. Writer, graphic designer and developer of it's website - entelegentno.nbu.bg. |
| 2001 - 2002 |
Part of NBU university's tennis team. The team classified sixth on the republican students contest in 2002. |
2000 |
"Animation movies" at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Full program. |
| 1998 - 2000 |
Technical University, Sofia - specialty "Communication tech and technology", after class. |
1995 |
Finished high-school in 125-th School in Sofia, with study of foreign languages, profile english and french with an avarege of Very Good 5,47. |
| COMPUTER SKILLS |
Hardware |
General assembly, configuration and tuning of PCs. |
Software |
Operational systems: Administrator maintenance of Windows 9x, Windows NT Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional; User level - Silicon Graphics IRIX ver. 5.2.
Applications: Microsoft Office; Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit Archiecture, 3D Studio, 3ds max, 3ds VIZ, Combustion; Softimage|3D, Toonz; Mental Ray, V-ray, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Dreamweaver.
"Master" level from brainbench.com on 3ds max, with score 4.13 - 12-th December 2000. |
Internet |
Experienced in navigation and search. Advanced in web design.
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| PROJECTS |
| 11.2004 - 05.2005 |
NBU. Project for the creation of a Student body. Co-author, chairman and organizer. |
| 02.2004 |
National Arts Academy. Computer graphics art club. Co-founder, lector. |
| FILMOGRAPHY: |
| 2005 ã. |
"Contrajour" - student's animated short film, directed by Petya Hristova. CGI, editing. New Bulgarian University. |
| 2004 ã. |
"The Dream" -
student's animated short film, directed by Desislava Boneva. CGI, editing. New Bulgarian University. |
| 2004 ã. |
"Horns ahead" -
ñstudent's animated short film, directed by Zhivko Arsenov. CGI, editing. New Bulgarian University.. |
| 2004 ã. |
"Legend of the white boar" -
TV feature film for Channel 1, Bulgarian Nation Television. CGI animation and effects. Producer - Cinemaq. |
2003 ã. |
"The pink pelican reserve" -
TV feature film for Channel 1, Bulgarian Nation Television. CGI animation and effects. Producer - Cinemaq. |
| 2000 ã. |
"Rupture" -
music video. Script, art design, direction, 3D modeling, texturing and compositing. Producers - Nikolay Mihaylov and Rusi Hristov. |
| AWARDS |
| 2002 |
NBU, department "Cinema, advertisement and showbusiness". Chosen for the most active student from within one thousand people. |
| 05.2001 |
Audience award at the 5-th Cinema festival in New Bulgarian University for the animation "Rupture". |
10.2000 |
Nominated for computer graphics at the XII-th international forum "Computer Space 2000" |
10.2000 |
1-st place for computer animation at the XII-th internatioanl forum "Computer Space 2000" with the music video "Rupture", made with Rusi Hristov (animation) and Kubrat Cakov (music).
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10.1999 |
3-rd place for computer graphics at the XI-th international forum "Computer Space'99" |
| PUBLICATIONS: |
| 07.2004 |
"Color by Vray" -
article in issue 26, Capital Light magazine, about the success of bulgarian cg software. |
| 12.2003 |
"Why the students aren't what they are" - article in issue 11, entelegentno magazine, NBU about the bad experiences in a student's holiday. |
| 12.2003 |
"The new soul of animation" -
article in issue 11, entelegentno magazine, NBU about the transfer from classical to CG animation. |
| 08.2003 |
"I, robot " -
article in EGOIST magazine about the history of digital actors. |
| 06.2003 |
"3D Jouney to Copenhagen" -
article in issue 8, entelegentno magazine, NBU about my journey to the 3D Festival in Copenhagen in May. |
