Nikolay Atanasov

Niki Atanasov is visual effects producer and drone pilot with more than 20 years of experience in various areas of 2D and 3D VFX for TV and Film. Niki is responsible for the producing of complete VFX/CGI projects for the film industry as well on set CGI Supervising. He started learning 3D back in 1996 with 3D Studio for DOS and his first job was in 1998 as video editor on Premiere and 3D animator on 3DS Max for local advertising company. In 2001 shortly after his 1 year service in the army he started learning 2D compositing techniques on Maya Fusion and Aftereffects and got a job at the local music television channel (MMTV) as Motion Graphics designer and Virtual Studio online operator and supervisor. Niki's first film work started back in 2003 as 3D generalist at Nu Boyana's WorldWide VFX. At that time he have developed strong skills in modeling, texturing, rigging and animating including character animation as well very good compositing skills and basic understanding of the whole process. Through the years Niki mastered the whole process of the VFX creation, technically and conceptually as well added more skills in his arsenal like matte painting, lighting design, learned se...