NAME
Nick Deligaris
DATE OF BIRTH
20/12/1981
LOCATION
Athens, Greece
EDUCATION
Graphic Design (4 years - Technolocical Educational Institute of Greece).
SPECIALTIES
Art Direction, Graphic Design, Illustration/Digital Painting, 3D modeling.
TOOLS
Wacom Intuos3, Photoshop, 3ds max, ZBrush, Illustrator, InDesign.
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
► Two scholarship awards (2003-2004).
► Winner of the DA/Daz3d/Nvidia "12 months of 3D" contest (2005).
► 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".
PREVIOUS WORKS
Various freelance commissions in illustration, logo design, CD and book covers, website layout and 3D modeling; clients include Lazarus Software (US) (illustration/design/concept art for the game "Dark Throne"), Aventurine S.A.(GR) ("Darkfall" MMORPG developer) (3D modeling-texturing-character rigging/animation), Yafka studio (GR) for The History Channel and National Geographic Channel (US) 3D modeling for the documentary series "Ancient Discoveries" and "Death Masks"), NARC ehf. (IS) (concept art, illustration, branding), The Mountain Corporation (US) (T-shirt designs), Hilden Design (DE) (covers for the "The Kormyr-Saga" Trilogy - Forgotten Realms, "Gorian" Trilogy), On The Rocks (concept art for "Tiltafun" - "Legion of Amon" iPhone games) Image Comics - Comicworld (US-GR) (variant cover for Spawn Gunslinger, 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 (Ballistic Publishing), Art Squared (Rage Publishing).
