Evgeni Tomov

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Name: Evgeni Tomov
born: former Soviet Union
Location: Bristol, UK
Work at: working as a Production Designer for Aardman Animations on a new CG feature film produced with Sony Entertainment.
Awards: He was nominated for an ANNIE award this year (2009) for Best Production Design for a feature animated film.
Website: www.evgenitomov.com

Biography:
EVGENI TOMOV is an acclaimed Production Designer, Conceptual Artist and Illustrator specializing in feature animated films, animated TV series and shorts.

Born in the former Soviet Union, Tomov studied at the Nikolai Pavlovitch University of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria from which he received a master’s degree in Fine Arts and Illustration in 1986. In 1990, Tomov moved to Montreal, Canada, where he worked as an Art Director and Illustrator for various Advertising Agencies, working on accounts such as Royal Bank of Canada, L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal (OSM) and Lotto Quebec.

In Montreal, his interest focused on the world of animation and he began work on numerous children’s TV series for the large Canadian studio CINAR Animation. Engaged as an Environment Design Supervisor for CINAR, he developed the series Animal Crackers and Mona the Vampire. During this time he also worked as a background painter for the Cactus Animation series Fennec le Détective. Tomov’s pursuit in art direction fanned out to encompass projects in computer games as well, developing Fas Antiquitas (project not completed by developer) and Circus Tycoon. In 1997 his role as Assistant Art Director on the animated short The Old Lady and the Pigeons saw his first collaboration on an Oscar® nominated film.

From 1999 to 2002, Tomov worked as the Art Director and Production Designer on the critically acclaimed animated feature film The Triplets of Belleville. The film was an Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, and received acclaim at numerous other film festivals. Nominations and awards included an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Feature. Following the completion of Triplets of Belleville, Tomov again collaborated with Director Sylvain Chomet in Scotland as Production Designer and Art Director for Chomet’s newly established Studio Django, working on the development of the 3D-animated film Beaks!; 2D-animated film Barbacoa and the 2D-animated feature The Illusionist, for Pathé Pictures International (currently in production).

As of 2006, Tomov has been working in London, England as Production Designer on the 3D-animated feature The Tale of Despereaux, for Universal Pictures.

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