#KNOW HOW speaker at CGA Belgrade 2025
Hristo Velev is a founding partner at Bottleship VFX, a boutique studio specializing in big dynamic effects like water, destruction, fire, and similar shots for big screen motion pictures, TV, game cinematic, and ads.
Before establishing Bottleship VFX, he worked as an FX Artist for Pixomondo, Screen Scene, and Scanline studios on blockbuster productions such as Iron Man 3. These experiences helped him build up his skills in various simulation-based projects. He is now working on both the business and artistic aspects of running the company. Thus, he has many interesting stories to share, whether in hardcore technical or business nature.
#KNOW HOW Speaker at CGA Belgrade 2025
Roland Reyer started in 1992 as an Application Engineer at Wavefront Technologies GmbH in Germany. He became an industry expert for the entire product portfolio of Wavefront Technologies, later Alias | Wavefront, Alias and finally, Autodesk M&E. In his role as an application specialist, he tested, showcased and trained Maya from its very first version. With over 30 years of product and market experience, Roland now works at Autodesk as a Technical Specialist for Maya, Bifrost, Arnold and more, throughout Europe.
Miljana graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, but her passion for creative processes naturally led her to the animation and visual effects industry. With her 10-year long experience in this field, Miljana helped establish the biggest computer graphics school in the region having 200 students enroll in the VFX and Gaming courses per year. She is the co-founder of CGA Belgrade conference with the mission of bringing the international and Serbian VFX and Gaming industries together for education and collaboration.
Co-Founder and lead animator of Take One studio from Belgrade. During his career that spans almost 2 decades, Slobodan participated in production of some of the most popular AAA game titles on the market. These include: The Witcher III (CDPR), Battlefield series (EA), The Hitman (IOI), Mad Max (Avalanche), Witcher Gwent (CDPR), The Chronicles Of Riddick (Starbreeze), BulletStorm (People Can Fly), Bloodforge (Climax), Star Wars:Battlefront (EA), World Of Tanks (Wargaming), FIFA 2014 (EA), Kane & Lynch (IOI) …and the list goes on…
His animation studio „Take One“ has one of the biggest motion capture facilities in Europe. Having worked on so many game titles, Slobodan had a unique opportunity to gain both technical and artistic experience through great variety of pipelines and workflows.
Zoran is a visual artist with over 10 years of experience in the VFX and CG industry. Based in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, he contributes in the Crater Studio’s story as an Art Director. His love for visual arts combined with his passion for decoding the human condition led him to develop his first animated short film “”Romeo””.
He allso works on deepening the understanding of mathematics in visual aesthetic.
Ana Uzelac is a VFX Supervisor, Producer and Co-Founder of Bunker VFX studio. Upon graduation she focused her professional work on digital compositing working on TVC’s and feature films for local and foreign productions.
Since 2014, her primary field of interest is production of high end game trailers. This shift to gaming industry has led the development of Bunker studio being specialized today in creation of the content primary for this industry. Meanwhile, she obtained a PHD in Digital Arts on the University of Arts in Belgrade.
Kosta Mihailovski is a VFX supervisor and Co-founder of Bunker VFX studio. Since the studio was founded in 2014, his primary focus was to build strong team and develop in-house pipeline, that can support them in producing Game trailers and cinematics, for world’s leading company’s from Game industry.
Vladimir Ilic is a CG Supervisor/Lighting Supervisor at PIXOMONDO Toronto.
Throughout his career Vladimir has worked on various feature films, TV series and commercials including Wonder Woman, Power Rangers, Fast and Furious 8, Fantastic Four, The Dark Tower and more.
