Hristo Velev

Hristo Velev

Senior FX Artist / 15 yrs

Sofia, Bulgaria

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Visual Effects Supervisor

Comandante (2023)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Saint Seiya (2023)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Phi 1.618 (2023)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)

Visual Effects Supervisor

Space Sweepers (2021)

VFX Supervisor

Tokyo Ghoul: 'S' (2019)

VFX Supervisor

Shanghai Fortress (2019)

VFX Supervisor

The Wandering Earth (2019)

VFX Supervisor

2.0 (2018)

VFX Supervisor

Hunter Killer (2018)

VFX Supervisor

Category 5 (2018)

Lead Effects Artist

Scales: Mermaids Are Rea (2017)

VFX Supervisor

The Three-Body Problem: I (2017)

VFX Supervisor

Watch Dogs 2 (2016)

Lead Effects Artist

Mojin - The Lost Legend (2015)

Division Lead Efffects Artist

Impossible (2015)

FX Artist

The Salvation (2015)

Viy (2014)

VFX Crew

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)

FX artist

Iron Man 3 (2013)

CG Fx Artist

Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2013)

Digital Artist

Man of Steel (2013)

FX Artist

Red Tails (2012)

Digital Artist

Sucker Punch (2011)

FX artist

Hindenburg (2011)

CG FX Artist

2012 (2009)

Work History

  • Managing Director / FX Lead

    Bottleship VFX

    September 2013 - Present

  • FX Artist

    ScanlineVFX

    March 2012 - February 2013

    Destruction effects

  • Lecturer

    FXPHD

    June 2011 - October 2011

    Taught a course on visual effects techniques with 3DS Max

  • FX artist

    SSVFX

    August 2011 - August 2011

    Digital destruction; car-desert sand interaction - RND and shot work.

  • FX artist

    Pixomondo

    February 2010 - August 2011

    FX work feature film productions.
    -'Sucker Punch' and 'Hindenburg' - destruction of an airship crashing into the ground. Steel structure breaking and deformation, cloth structure.
    -'Red Tails' - destruction of a train engine and cars, environment interaction, smoke and explosions.

  • Training DVD author

    Eat3D.com

    2009 - 2010

    Training material author and presenter

  • FX artist/TD

    Pixomondo

    February 2009 - May 2009

    Did FX work (10 shots) under the lead of Mohsen Mousavi on Emerich's '2012'. Workflow used 3DS Max, centered on Thinking Particles, with FumeFX, Krakatoa, Afterburn, Particle Flow.
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Education

  • New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria

    2006 - 2009

  • New Bulgarian University, Sofia

    2004 - 2007

  • Technical University Sofia

    1999 - 2003

  • Computer sciences profiled highschool

    1994 - 1999