NAME

Nick Deligaris

DATE OF BIRTH

20/12/1981

LOCATION

Athens, Greece

 

EDUCATION

Graphic Design (4 years - Technolocical Educational Institute of Greece).

SPECIALTIES

Graphic Design, Illustration / Digital Painting, 3D modeling.

TOOLS

Wacom Intuos3, Photoshop, 3ds max, ZBrush, Illustrator, InDesign.

AWARDS / NOMINATIONS

► EMMY Award nomination (2010) in the category "OUTSTANDING INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN A CRAFT: GRAPHIC DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION", for artwork in the History Channel show "Death Masks".

► Winner of the DA / Daz3d / Nvidia "12 months of 3D" contest (2005).

► Two scholarship awards for having the highest grades while studying graphic design (2003-2004).

PREVIOUS WORKS

Various freelance commissions in illustration, logo design, CD and book covers, website layout and 3D modeling.
Clients include Fantasy Flight Games (US) (illustrations for "The Lord of the Rings" TCG), Yafka studio (GR) for The History Channel and National Geographic Channel (US) 3D modeling for the documentary series "Ancient Discoveries" and "Death Masks"), Lazarus Software (US) (illustration/design/concept art for the games "Dark Throne" and "Dark Curse"), Aventurine S.A. (GR) ("Darkfall" MMORPG) (3D modeling-texturing-character rigging/animation), NARC ehf. (IS) (concept art, illustration, branding), The Mountain Corporation (US) (T-shirt designs), covers for the german editions of "The Cormyr Saga" - Forgotten Realms trilogy, "Gorian" Trilogy, (Blanvalet - Randomhouse), On The Rocks (concept art for "Tiltafun" - and and an unreleased iPhone game) Image Comics - Comicworld (US-GR) (variant cover for Gunslinger Spawn, cover colors for Spawn Godslayer).

EXPERIENCE WITH:

graphic design, website layout, logo design, traditional and digital illustration, concept art, GUI design, 3D modeling (low and high poly) / unwrapping / texturing, game design and 3D engine optimization, 3D character rigging and animation, Flash animation

FEATURED IN:

various websites / magazines (DeviantArt, CGSociety, CGHub, ItsArtMag, DigitalArtSecrets, ImagineFX and others), Daz3D / NVIDIA calendar 2005;
the books: Elemental2, Exotique2, Exotique4, D'artiste: Character Design, (Ballistic Publishing), Art Squared (Rage Publishing).