Blaž Porenta is a student of Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
His area(s) of specialization are illustration, concept art and graphic design.

Professional Experiences

  • Art Director at Actalogic (over 10 game titles)
  • former Art Director and concept artist at Zootfly
    (TimeO project, Prison Break: The Conspiracy project)
  • former lead artist at Nevron – educational games for primary schools
  • former lead artist at Gold Club
    (slot-machines, roulettes, graphics, …material)
  • instructor at Balkan’s Illustration Symposioum 2011 (Belgrade, Serbia)
  • cover illustrations and designs for music albums
    (Siddharta – Saga, Billys Private Parking – Magia, Jadranka Juras – Anima, Zaklonisce Prepeva – Selam Alejkum, Kristijan Krajnčan – Jazz Ensemble…)
  • merchandise illustrations for Siddharta
  • rolling papers package illustrations for Ziggi
  • card illustration for A Game of Thrones
  • set design for theater play “Norway today”
  • poster illustrations for theater plays for Sentjakob’s theatre
    (Nunsense 2, Podvodni mož, Lulie the iceberg, 8 women, Monty Python – Brian’s life)
  • Goodlife magazine illustrations
  • ad illustrations, matte paintings and storyboards for major clients (Mobitel, Laško, VW, Krka, Delo, Dnevnik, Primorje, Cocta, Fructal, UniCredit, Argeta and others for various agencies)
  • other poster and package illustrations, logo designs, illustrations for books, book covers.. (various clients)

Exhibitions

  • Anton Trstenjak Gallery, Grossmann’s 7th fantastic film and wine festival, Slovenia
  • Cyberpipe Gallery, Slovenia
  • Khiselstein Castle in Kranj, Slovenia
  • »Independent Illustrators Slovenia, 1st Biennale« exhibition in Architecture Museum of Ljubljana – Fužine Castle, Slovenia
  • »Independent Illustrators Slovenia, 1st Biennale« exhibition in KUD France Preseren, Slovenia
  • Metelkova City – with Domen Lombergar, Slovenia
  • Atelje 2050 – with photographer Matjaž Tančič, Slovenia
  • “Erotic 2″ in gallery Photon – with photographer Matjaž Tančič, Slovenia
  • »Eye for an Eye 2007« exhibition in National Gallery of Slovenia, Slovenia
  • »Eye for an Eye 2006« exhibition in Cekin mansion, Slovenia
  • »Self-portrait today« Art Gallery Maribor, Slovenia
  • Gimnazija Kranj library, Slovenia
  • DA Summit, California
  • Gallery 115, Romania
  • Exhibition of Animation, Illustration and Entertainment industry in Hang Zhou, China
  • “Balkans festival of young comic creators” exhibition in Gallery of Leskovac Cultural Center, Serbia
  • many other participations in different smaller exhibitions around Slovenia

Publications

  • Expose 4: Finest Digital Art in the known universe
    (exposure of 3 of my paintings, one of them also received “Excellence Award”) (US)
  • Expose 9: Finest Digital Art in the known universe (US)
  • CG Challenge XVI Grand Space Opera Book (US)
  • Digital Art Masters vol.4 – exhibition and tutorial (UK)
  • Digital Art Masters vol.6 – exhibition and tutorial (UK)
  • Digital Art Masters vol.7 – exhibition and tutorial (UK)
  • Art Squared – Digital Painters book – exhibition and tutorial (US)
  • Dopress: Concept Art & Sketch book – exhibition and tutorial (China)
  • Book of Creation – exhibition of my works (FR)
  • Fantasy Art Magazine (China)
  • Imagine FX – Artist of the month award (UK)
  • Imagine FX – interview and exhibition of my works (UK)
  • ImagineFX – DVD gallery (UK)
  • 2D Artist Magazine – interview and exhibition of my works (UK)
  • 2D Artist Magazine – cover art and tutorial (UK)
  • Clarkesworld magazine – cover art (US)
  • Fantastyka magazine – cover art (Poland)
  • Print magazine (US)
  • Goodlife magazine – portrait illustrations (SLO)
  • Spekter magazine – cover art (SLO)
  • Kontejner magazine – interview and exhibition of my works (SLO)
  • Kontrast magazine (SLO)
  • Mladina magazine (SLO)
  • Klik magazine (illustrations, photographs, articles) (SLO)
  • Status magazine (SLO)
  • PC Gamer magazine (SLO)
  • Maturant&ka magazine – interview and exhibition of my works (SLO)