Julian Tarkhanov
Nationality: Russian. Born in 1983 in Moscow.
Education
- 2004 – present – Pursuing a bachelor's degree, Image & Media Technology, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Hilversum (full-time)
- 2001 - 2003 - Graphic design, Institute of Modern Art, Moscow
- 2000 - Private lesssons drawing and painting
- 1999 - Private lessons technical drawing
- 2000 – High school 90 - completed
- 1991 - 2000 - High school 1216 with specialized French course, Moscow
Work experience
- 2006 - present – Flame, practical compositing and tool development, undisclosed employer
- 2004-2005 - Freelance web-development and design, programming with Ruby/Rails (part-time)
- 2002-2004 - “Expert” publishing house, Moscow
- Inforgaphics design
- Layout
- Web-design and development with PHP
- 2000-2002 - “Pinakotheke” magazine, Moscow (part-time)
- Macintosh support
- DTP
- 1999-2000 - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
- Assistant designer, prepress
- Technical support of exhibitions (projections, multimedia)
- Macintosh support
Languages
- Russian (native speaker)
- English (fluent, written and spoken, technical)
- Dutch (fluent, written and spoken),
- French (intermediate, spoken).
Pratical skills
Video
- Compositing - Shake (beginner to intermediate), Flame (intermediate), Combustion, AfterEffects
- Editing - Final Cut Pro (good)
- Authoring - DVD Studio Pro (good)
3D
- CINEMA 4D (non-organic modeling)
DTP and graphics
- Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator (good)
Other skills
- Basic UNIX skills (Linux, OS X) inc. shell and scripting
- Proficient in web-standards (CSS, (X)HTML)
- JavaScript, PHP and Ruby (for general scripting and the Web), Rails
Interests
Creative projects with moving image, drawing, visual effects, image processing, post-production pipelines. Use cases for web-based tools in pre- and post-production.
Personal projects
Web-based software for different user groups, tablet-driven interface in Flash, multiple Rails extensions.