Omer Avarkan is a freelance Motion Designer / Director.
He is currently active in Motion Graphics and Kinetic Imagery for various media.
Location

Currently resides and works from Los Angeles.
Travels on project based as well.


Education


Virginia Commonwealth University, School Of The Arts
BA from Communication Arts And Design
Minor in Film And Photography


Software Used


Maxon: Cinema 4D
Adobe: After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash
Apple: Final Cut Pro
Ssontech: SynthEyes [for tracking]
2d3: Boujou [for tracking]


Worked For

The Ant Farm, PIC Agency, Special Blend, [ Los Angeles, USA ]
Wasistdas. [ Istanbul, Turkey ]
Through these design / animation boutique studios, he worked on various projects for:
• Universal Studios
• Paramount Pictures
• National Geographic Entertainment
• Gulf Oil Turkey
• Walt Disney Pictures
• Alliance Atlantis
• Mitsubishi Electric
• Warner Brothers
• Discovery Channel
• Twentieth Century Fox
• Epic Games
• Touchstone Pictures
• Marvel Studios
• Extreme Teuve [ Spain ]
• Dunya Yachts [ Istanbul, Turkey ]
• DirecTV
• HP


AWARDS And NOMINATIONS

4 Telly Awards
• As an Art Director for The Chronicles Of Narnia TV Campaign and Logo Animation.
• As the Creative Director for the DirecTV Pay Per View Movies TV Branding.
• As the Lead Designer for The Lords Of Dogtown TV Reviews Campaign. Graffiti Spots.
• As the Creative Director for the Xbox 360 game Shadowrun Trailer

Nominated 2 times for the Best Motion Graphics Category for the Key Art Awards
• Lords Of Dogtown, Graffiti TV Reviews spots.
• Big Fish, Golden Globes TV spots.

Nominated for the Best Drama Trailers for the Key Art Award as the Lead Designer
• Big Fish, Trailer Campaign No.1

Nominated for the Best Teaser for the Key Art Award as the Lead Designer
• Monster in Law, Teaser Campaign A

Nominated for the Best Action Trailer for the Key Art Award as the Lead Designer
• Zathura Trailer Campaign No.1

Nominated for the Best Action TV Spot for the Key Award as the Lead Designer
• The Chronicles Of Narnia, Everything Review Campaign


RECOGNITIONS

• Designed Aeon Flux Movie MTV TV spots.
• Recreated the Universal Logo for the HD dvd movie releases.
• Created Donners' Company logo and animation for theatrical.
• Donners' Company Produced titles like X-men, Constantine, Any Given Sunday etc..
• Created the new logo animation for National Geographic Entertainment.

PUBLICATIONS

• Published in Hollywood Reporter 33rd Annual Key Art Award 2004 Book.
• Published in Hollywood Reporter 35rd Annual Key Art Award 2006 Book.