Nov 27, 2011
Evgeni
Tomov, is a Production Designer, Conceptual Artist, and
Illustrator specializing in feature length and short animated
films, and animated TV series. Originally from the former
Soviet Union, Evgeni moved
to Montreal, where he worked as an Art Director and
Illustrator for several advertising agencies.
In 1997, his role as Assistant Art Director on the animated
short The Old
Lady and the Pigeons was his first collaboration on
an Oscar® nominated
film for French animation director Sylvain
Chomet.
Evgeni again
worked with Sylvain
Chomet as Art Director and Production Designer on
the Oscar® nominated
French animated feature The
Triplets of Belleville.
Evgeni worked
at Chomet’s Studio
Django in Scotland on film development, including working as
development art director for the Oscar® nominated
animated feature The
Illusionist, a bittersweet tale of a French magician struggling
to survive in a world that no longer seems to need him.
Evgeni has
worked as Production Designer on The
Tale of Despereaux and the upcoming Arthur
Christmas, a co-production between Aardman
Animations and Sony
Pictures.
Arthur Christmas reveals the answer to every child's question about how Santa delivers all those presents in one night - through Santa's ultra-high-tech hidden beneath operation the North Pole and Arthur's family is in a state of comic dysfunction. Arthur has an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning.