Mar 28, 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 then worked on numerous children's TV series
for the Canadian studio CINAR
Animation. As Environment Design Supervisor for CINAR, he
developed the series Animal Crackers and Mona the Vampire. He then also worked as a background
painter for the Cactus
Animation series Fennec Le Détective.
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.