Nikolay Atanasov
Visual Effects
Biography
Niki Atanasov is visual effects producer and drone pilot with more than 20 years of experience in various areas of 2D and 3D VFX for TV and Film. Niki is responsible for the producing of complete VFX/CGI projects for the film industry as well on set CGI Supervising. He started learning 3D back in 1996 with 3D Studio for DOS and his first job was in 1998 as video editor on Premiere and 3D animator on 3DS Max for local advertising company. In 2001 shortly after his 1 year service in the army he started learning 2D compositing techniques on Maya Fusion and Aftereffects and got a job at the local music television channel (MMTV) as Motion Graphics designer and Virtual Studio online operator and supervisor. Niki's first film work started back in 2003 as 3D generalist at Nu Boyana's WorldWide VFX. At that time he have developed strong skills in modeling, texturing, rigging and animating including character animation as well very good compositing skills and basic understanding of the whole process. Through the years Niki mastered the whole process of the VFX creation, technically and conceptually as well added more skills in his arsenal like matte painting, lighting design, learned several render engines, basic scripting for automation, dynamic simulations of rigid, soft bodies as well fluids. In 2013 Niki moved to the next level and started producing Visual Effects by managing the whole VFX department at UFO that had 20 full time artists at the time. He build more efficient pipeline which improved the quality and reduced the costs by finishing the shows for short time than producers anticipated based on their previous way of work. In 2016 was Niki's first job as drone pilot which came coincidentally as his hobbies was flying RC planes, helicopters and drones as well his love toward photography were he had to shoot various subjects related to the VFX work for Crystal Inferno. After that he did his next drone job again for VFX needs for Death Race: Beyond Anarchy. Then several films followed with drone work and recently Niki's drone company Golden Sky Birds LLC was part of several Hallmark productions as well they shoot two scenes for For All Man Kind Season 4. For the last 10 years Niki have supervised and produced the VFX for more than 20 films and delivered more than 7000 shots. Meeting with producers, directors and heads of various departments, designing and estimating VFX approaches and their costs, from script to their final delivery.Nikolay Atanasov is known for his work on Pandora (2019), Firequake (2014) and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015).
Known For
The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.
Midnight Mass
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
A giant alligator goes head to head with a giant Anaconda. The town sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town.
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Elite snipers Brandon Beckett and Richard Miller are fighting extremists in the Middle East when the Colonel gives them a new mission: to protect a gas pipeline stretching from the Republic of Georgia to Western Europe from extremists eager to make a political statement. But when skirmishes with the enemy lead to U.S. snipers being killed by a ghost shooter who locks into their exact location, a security breach is suspected. Fingers are pointed and battle lines are drawn, all leading up to an explosive climax.
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
A rogue gunman is assassinating high-ranking military officers one by one. When Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Beckett is informed his father, legendary shooter Thomas Beckett has been killed, Brandon springs into action to take out the perpetrator.
Sniper: Legacy
Erick, a young Viking warrior, joins forces with a rival clan in order to rescue a kidnapped princess from the great Midgard Serpent. It's a perilous task with a risk far greater than merely their own lives; by rescuing the princess, they might cause Ragnarök - the end of the world.
Viking Quest
The Keller family, including the parents and their three adult children, decide to take a European river cruise touring the Christmas Markets over the holidays, and each sibling is going through their own life challenge.
A Keller Christmas Vacation
A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Crystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls are united and reek havoc on the earth without the control of the 13th skull.
Crystal Skulls
When her older sister elopes with a non-royal, Princess Bea who has lived her life away from her royal duties must now step in and honor the arranged marriage to a small kingdom prince.
The Royal We
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the highly-explosive product begins to seep deep below the Earth's crust, producing giant blasts of fire and violent earthquakes above the surface. As cities shake and oceans boil, Eve Adams, creator of the Helios technology, rushes to investigate the subterranean phenomenon. As the situation becomes ever more dire, she is the only one who can save mankind, not to mention reputation.
Firequake
A period adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. After a change in circumstances, Marianne is torn between two men, while Elinor longs for a man beyond reach.
Sense and Sensibility
The action centers on Ran and his schoolmates who are in the last year of school. They are only a few days away from the day when they will have to make a decisive choice: what are they going to be, and what is more important, how are they going to live? In the whirlpool of meetings with different people and mainly with three women, the filmmakers are trying to see the future of their main character. His schoolmate Mariana wants to lead him into family life. The pop singer Neli is the very incarnation of adventurism. However, he is most deeply touched by the salesgirl in the near-by coffee shop Tintyava. This is a wordless affair in which each glance exchanged betrays the piercing excitement of impossible love.
The Boy Turns Man
Yana, Trayan's girlfriend, is raped by three men. To enact revenge Trayan infiltrates their gang with intent to kill.
Under Arrest
Desolate Dancho Kolev arrives in 1911 New York with the flow of emigrants seeking happiness and success. Through adventures and hardships, he becomes the invincible King of Catch – Dan Koloff – the fright of the ring for wrestlers throughout the world. This is true story of an unbelievable life turned into legend and a symbol of Bulgarian strength.