Curriculum Vitae
Graduated in Fine Arts (Sculpture) in 1978 from the Bulgarian National Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Art Nicolás Pavlovich, Sofia. Following several years at Boyana Studios as an animator, he worked as an art director and animator for commercial campaigns in Harare, Zimbabwe (1989–2000). Since 2001 he has been based within the tertiary academic world, teaching primarily Life Drawing, Animation Design and Visual Communication Foundation — in Bogotá from 2001–2010, and in Johannesburg from 2011. His fine art work is held in private collections in Canada, the United States, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Bulgaria, Colombia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He is currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Human anatomy and comparative anatomy, animation design, character design and visual communication foundation, taught to first- and second-year students.
Introduction to drawing and academic drawing / figure in context; development of scientific drawing and illustration — ethnographic types, flora and fauna, and ecosystems related to the Botanical Expedition of the New World (Hispanic and Republican period, 17th–18th century France, Spain, England).
Traditional animation, taught to fourth-year Graphic Design students.
Trained emerging illustrators in character development, composition, colour and layout.
Stop-motion and plasticine animation for campaigns including Impala Soap and Air Zimbabwe, and original puppet character design for Zimbabwe Insurance Company.
Caricatures, stop-frame and stop-motion animation projects, corporate identity design and agency poster execution.
Directorial debut Cube and Sphere (volumetric clay and plasticine animation, 1984–85). Contributed to Pirates, shown at the Festival of Red Cross and Health Films, Varna, 1981. Worked with animator Nikolay Todorov on Grandomaniya and Garsoniera (1979) — the latter a Golden Palm nominee for Best Short Film at Cannes, 1980. Traditional 2D animation and character design.
The Book of Olfo, Moon, Moon, Moon and By the Ways of the Rope (unpublished).
Illustrated two books in the popular-science series KAWI, including Renewable Energy Challenges, for UNESCO's African Publishers' Network.
Illustrated a series on four southern African ecosystems for the magazine's youth environmental-education content.
Economic caricatures on the country's current economic conditions.
Background and texture design for posters and illustrations. Sculpted the logo for the Southern African Film Festival (1996); illustrated The Earth Is Our Mother, a poster for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development.
Illustrated a songbook of traditional and newly written Latin American children's songs (Editorial Norma).
Referee contact details are available on request — left off this public page for privacy.