Kamen Markov

About

Kamen began his career within the visual effects industry back in 2000 in Bulgaria. As a Flame Artist he spent the formative years of his career honing his craft on music video, commercial and installation projects.

Striving for bigger challenges and more prospects he left for Mexico in 2004 where he worked with an impressive list of creative talent, including the likes of Fred Clapp, Jorje Aguilera and Oliver Castro.

He joined the MPC team in London in 2010. Since then he established himself as one of the company’s leading VFX Supervisors within commercials and worked on numerous high profile and award-winning campaigns including Lego, Visa, Vodafone, Audi, Carlsberg, Sony, Cravendale and John Lewis among many others. As a Visual Effect Supervisor & Senior Flame Artist, Kamen collaborated with some of the film and advertising industry’s most revered directing and creative talent such as Traktor, Academy Award winner Robert Stromberg, Sam Brown, Daniel Kleinman, Jonathan Glazer and Seb Edwards.

In April 2022, Kamen joined the legendary VFX powerhouse Framestore as Creative Director, Advertising and VFX Supervisor.

Awards

VES Awards Winner, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial

2024 The Australian Effects and Animation Festival (AEAF), Special Merit

2024 British Arrows, Bronze Arrow for VFX

Creative Circle, Silver | Best VFX | Lego “Holliday”


CANNES LIONS, Silver Lion, Film Craft, Visual Effects in a Commercial


LIA Awards Gold for Visual Effects


British Arrows, Silver Craft Arrow for VFX


The Immortal Awards, VFX


CICLOPE AWARDS, Visual Effects, Gold


CLIO Awards, Film Technique (Visual Effects) - Silver

Epica Awards, Silver for Post Production/Visual Effects


ADC AWARDS, New York. Craft - Visual Effects - Gold Cube


ADC AWARDS, New York. Craft in Video / Special Effects - Gold


AEAF Awards, Cidney. Film Technique (Visual Effects) - Silver


Brand Film Festival, London, Gold for Best post-production


Eurobest, Film Craft: Visual Effects , Silver


The One Show. Moving Image Craft - Visual Effects. Gold


Creative Circle. Film Craft - FX&CGI. Gold


Eurobest, Gold for VFX


APA Collection Diamond

APA Showcase Diamond

Circulo Creativo, Mexico, Bronze for VFX


San Sebastian, Sol de Oro


FIAP, Argentina, Gold


Bulgarian Music Awards, Gold for Best Music Video


IVCA, London, Gold


TV World Festival, Albena 2001Gold, Digital Media Installation