My name is Alex Nemov, I'm an artist and art director with more than a decade of professional experience in Concept Art, team management of 2D and 3D artists, and Art Direction for video games with more than a billion installs worldwide.
Professional experience
Since 2022 Art Director at Nekki LTD (400+ employees)
2019-2022 Art Director at Banzai Games (250-300 employees)
2015 - 2019 Lead Concept Artist and Team Lead at Banzai Games
2012 - 2015 Concept artist at Nekki LTD
2010 - 2012 Graphic Design Freelance
teaching experience
2018 - 2021, 2023-2026 Concept art diploma mentoring at British Higher School of Art And Design
Unity Unite Europe, Amsterdam - Creating Style of Shadow Fight 3
CGEvent Moscow - Art Direction of Shadow Fight series
Devgamm Moscow - Environmental art for Games
PlayPort Kaliningrad - Interview, HR related mostly
CGSpeak - Interview
Various project pitches and small talks on different platforms
Skills
Ability to work with zero information input
Excellent at seeing the future production process and understanding what it will take to reach the goal
Problem-solving mentality and mediating abilities
Art Direction
Team management
Mentorship and guiding
Drawing, Painting, Sculpting, Designing
Photoshop and Blender 3d - Pro level. also Zbrush, Substance Painter, Grasshopper.
English - IELTS C1
German - B1
Education
2024-2027 Master's Degree in Transportation Design, IED, Italy
2006 - 2012 Bachelor Degree in Organizational Management, MIIGAIK, Moscow
2020 - 2022 Inktank Academy courses
2020 Grasshopper course by Volumes
2015 - 2020 Traditional Arts mentorship by Glazunov Academy teacher
2014 - 2017 CGMA courses (CG Master Academy):
Art of Color and Light - 8 weeks
Designing with Color and Light - 8 weeks
Environment Design for Games PT1 and PT2 - 16 weeks
Matte painting - 8 weeks
Perspective for Enterntainment Design - 8 weeks
Principles of Design process - 8 weeks
2012 Rendering Metallic Surfaces by Scott Robertson at Schoolism - 4 weeks
Thank you!