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)
