ABOUT

Hello, my name is Domen Dimovski and I am the founder of Caligo FX, my online portfolio and motion design / visual effects resource site.
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First aim with this website was to post only my personal and professional explorations in 3D, sharing digital renders and producing advanced tutorials and exciting products for motion design and visual effects community, but it gradually expanded in form and in content to exploration of different creative possibilities in classical art, film & animation and in contemporary art.

My projects are now located somewhere in the fields of art & design, philosophy and film or animation narrative. I discovered the world of 3D animation around year 2009 and have been an active CG artist ever since. In 2017, I graduated from Video and New media at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
My primary love is art. I understand it as invention-procedures, which includes on the one hand passion for the pictorial dimension of still or motion images and on the other hand thinking and contemplating philosophy of reality. From Plato's time we know, that good art form can reveal much more real reality, opposed to everyday noise of mythology.

I am interested in different levels of meaning-making processes, from design theory, gestalt principles and colour theory to art of storytelling. All of which I combine with conceptual system of cognitive science, which studies perception, memory, emotions, consciousness, learning and neuroscience behind that. Between reading books from fields of narration, philosophy, and psychoanalysis I also like to write short essays. If you are interested and you speak Slovene, head over to Pisane-topike.

I'm based in Kranj, Slovenia. To find out more about my work head over to portfolio.
Feel free to get in touch with me: domen@caligofx.net
Awards
  • 2018 / Prešeren award for students with outstanding achievement
  • 2017 / P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Award for young artist in Intermedia Art
  • 2015/2016 / ALUO Award
  • 2012 / 2nd place for short film "Kdo je kokoš?" -  UNAS - United Nations Association of Slovenia - recognition
  • 2012 / 60 seconds science - International Open: Highly Commended at 3th place - Wind Turbine
  • 2012 / qualify winner of UNAS - national competition of short films on Human Rights, organized within the International Film Festival "This human world" - Breath - recognition

Solo Exhibitions
  • Retrospective exhibition / ALUO / 4. 1. 2019
  • P74 Gallery / King's Democracy / 2017
  • MKD Gallery Kranj  / Catalog / 2016
  • Kavarna Slonček Kranj / The Material city / 2016

Group Exhibitions
Exhibitions and Films in Cooperation
Press

Film and Animation Festivals
  • Slovenski animirani film 2006-2011, 2018 Celje
  • 12th Animateka 2015 / Short film House
  • 11th Grossmann 2015 / Short film
  • 10th Athens ANIMFEST 2015 / Short film
  • Festival Svobodne Video Produkcije 2014
  • Videomanija 2013 / Short film In the Woods
  • This human world 2012 / Festival Opening short film
  • Videomanija 2012 / Short film Štopar