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  • Archifashion New living conditions create a fictional urban landscape according to the social demand. The city is a place where people meet and exchange ideas and feelings, where everyday life is also a struggle for survival. A community that resembles Eastern Europe in the last two decades during the period of transition from socialism to the market economy is inventive and resourceful in its’ attempt to raise children, to work, to love, to create and to maintain faith, sanity and humour in an almost unbearable environment. The members of this community have experienced an endless chain of absurd events such as: an electricity regimen, a water regimen, a coupon system, a massive inflation, a grain crisis, a milk crisis, a toilet paper crisis, a gas crisis, random bomb droppings, political scandals, etc.

    It seems that the destiny of the mobile person of the 21 century is predicted. People need positive alternatives.         2009 Animation, Motion Graphics
  • Deniiise http://deniiise.com     2010 Web Design, Interaction Design, Motion Graphics
  • Plushmusic Sting and Watermark design for Plushmusic.tv
    Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator         2011 Motion Graphics
  • Rough Justice Short animations part of a documentary about miscarriages of justice.
    Throwing out a hint that the person convicted of the crime could have not been the real culprit.
    The footage illustrates something that has been staged by an investigative team.

    Pitch for BBC Bristol

    Software: Adobe After Effects         2010 Animation, Documentary, Motion Graphics
  • Swingin hall Swingin' hall is very well known Bulgarian club which dates back to 1995. Mainly jazz musicians and bands perform there from Bulgaria and abroad, such as Paco de Lucias musicians, Al di Meola, Incognito's musicians, Oregon, Spiro Gira.

    I have been very happy to be able to execute their site. It has been a nice experience to work with the people from the Swingin' hall because of my personal feelings and memories of the place.

    http://swinging hall.com

    Software: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop         2009 Web Design, Programming
  • iMama motion graphics Stings for iMama.tv - parenting site with over 5000 video clips of advice from pregnancy and birth to babies and beyond.

    For this project I have used Adobe After Effects and Adobe Illustrator.         2011 Motion Graphics
  • Show Reel 2009       2010 Motion Graphics, Video Arts, Animation
  • 3D bits and bobs Blender 3D modeling     2011 Animation, Motion Graphics
  • Christo This project is inspired by the American-Bulgarian artist Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude. The approach is based on idea of "packed" figers created by me trough moulage technique. I made this video which was projected on the clothes during a fashion show. The music was composed especially for the video and for the show and was based on the sounds recorded in the umbrellas fields of Christo in 1991. Other natural sounds enriched the music.

    Software: Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop         2009 Computer Animation, Fashion, Video Arts
  • Vanity These embroideries inspired by the Thracian art have been a part of a fashion collection:

    http://www.behance.net/Gallery/utopia-_amp-Reality/335639

    The embroideries were animated with Adobe Flash         2009 Textile Design, Fashion, Animation
  • Glovel Glovel is a Deutsch webpage for dating which is not online at the moment.

    The concept I have used is based on the idea that we are all children in the field of dating. After all it is a guessing game to meet that special person.

    Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Illustartor         2010 Web Design, Illustration
  • I've lost my strings Bonds sprout from bonds. Affection sprouts from affection. Creativity sprouts from creativity. I have grown up in a house where four generations of women lived together with the only man soul � the much spoiled and loved tomcat. Even now the bonds are tremendous, nursing me like roots sucking juices from the soil in times of troubles, restricting me like golden chains, stirring up my forgetful desire for freedom.


    I’ve lost my strings is a short animation I have always wanted to make. It is a personal story of a family of three women at different stages of their lifes. It is a metaphor of the contradictions that arouse between them in their everyday life. It’s starting point is inspired by the play “Three tall women” by Edward Albee. I’ve lost my strings is also about a madness caused by change and an escape from a previous life with all attachments and sentiments one used to cherish.


    In an attempt to liberate myself I have developed a concept which is close to my previous studies in textiles and fashion design, but I have been looking at it in a new perspective using different media. I have modified my themes according to my changed understandings of life and creativity after my arrival to the Western Europe using new media and technologies. Instead of using a needle and a thread I have presented my work with illustrations, video, flash and 3D, exploring my dreams and virtual travel across time and space.


    I started to experiment with this animation trying to present a dream of a girl who wants to break the chains of limitations and to unshackle the irritations in her life. I am trying to present it as a struggle and growth, sometimes taking shape of a surrealistic dream. I have played and experimented with the different dimensions with the help of a 3D program. I have imported and exported multiple times my scenario in the 3D space and putting it back again in the two dimensional environment.
    I have changed the scissors of my grand-mother into a montage with the help of digital programs and eventually cut the old that holds me back, giving a new shape to the fabric of my life. I have transformed the needle of creativity into a visual collage of animated flash images, a new design transformed the traditional hand-woven and dear to me fabrics inspired of my grand-grand-mother into a magic flying animated video carpet. These metaphors are very much inspired by admired to me artist from Eastern Europe like Jan Svankmajer and Qauy Brothers. I am very interested in the way they present narrative trough objects.


    I have also tried to work in the achromatic colours, inspired by children’s illustrations and by old movies that give a special perception of time. My intention was to maintain the personal touch and feeling of a designed motion graphic piece that describes an exiting journey forth and back through time and space.



    This travel across the time and space suggests a method of incorporation of a sound map. I have used the music of Gershwin. His music based on a characteristic American blues and jazz creatively mixes its elements with the heritage of European classical music. I believe that his experience of an American in Paris is pretty much similar to the experience of the nowadays foreigner in London.

    Software used: Blender 3D, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator         2009 Computer Animation, Illustration
  • Iva Web design, Flash, Action Script 2     2011 Web Design
  • Travel A project about future travel, dream travel, a dream of freedom of ones boundries and limitations!

    Software used: Pinnacle, Adobe Premier, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop         2009 Video Arts, Computer Animation
  • MPU banner ads MPU banner ads design for iMama.tv
    Adobe Photoshop         2011 Web Design
  • iMama newsletters Newsletter design for iMama.tv     2011 Web Design, Graphic Design
  • Trabant A exploration of socialist cars.

    Software: Adobe Illustrator         2011 Illustration
  • Alchemist Cookbook The "Alchemist Cookbook" is a game created at the Blender for Game Artists workshop part of the TOSMI - Trainings in Open Source Multimedia Instruments

    Creators:
    Biser Georgiev .............................. Peter Applerock
    Goce Mitevski ............................... Stoyan Bozhkilov
    Iana Krachunova ............................ Victoria Gospodinova
    Martin Ruskov ............................... & me Denni

    Software: Blender 3D, Gimp, Inkscape         2011 Game Design
  • Hipp & iMama Motion Graphics Motion Graphics for Hipp & iMama.tv     2011 Motion Graphics
  • Flash Presentations Flash animations for presentation purposes.

    Software used: Adobe Flash         2011 Animation
  • Dying for Democracy Short animations for a documentary called Dying for Democracy. Senior animator Christian Krupa, Juniour animator Denni Bakardji.     2010 Animation, Documentary, Motion Graphics
  • Illustartion Week by week foetal development illustartions for iMama.tv. I had to create all 40 stages of the foetal development. Here I am presenting just a few of those.     2011 Illustration
  • Women       2009 Illustration
  • Three Tall Women       2009 Fashion, Illustration
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