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Florian Bo

Intermediate

Oil Painting
Blender

Illustrator with a bg in fine arts and graphic design. Wide range of work experience, including animation, games and advertising as well as teaching.

Biography

Austrian-Filipino illustrator with a background in graphic design and classical drawing and painting. Almost 20y experience as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator as well as stints in animation/motion design, teaching, painting, storyboarding for advertising and interface design for games. Now focusing on character design and visual development. Please see my website for more work.

Skills

Roles

  • Mastery
  • Mastery
  • Mastery
  • Advanced

Technical Skills

  • Advanced

Software

  • Basic

Work Experience

2006 – Present day

Illustration + graphic design

Freelance (Vienna)
Freelance graphic design, illustration, motion design/animation from 2006 until present.

2016 – 2018

Teacher

Barcelona Academy of Art (Barcelona)
Instructor at the Barcelona Academy of Art, teaching the Drawing/Painting program and intensive workshops, as well as introductory drawing and anatomy courses at the La Salle 
University Barcelona

2013 – 2014

Interface Design, 2D Art

Cliffhanger Productions Software GmbH (Vienna)
Interface Designer/2D Artist at games company Cliffhanger Productions Software GmbH. Designed the interface and corresponding assets as well as some in-game illustrations for strategy game AErena.

2010 – 2011

Art Director

Yackety Yak GmbH (Vienna)
Art Director at Social Media Marketing-Agency Yackety Yak GmbH.

Education

2015 – 2017

Barcelona Academy of Art

Drawing and Painting

Intensive drawing and painting program at the Barcelona Academy of Art, Barcelona, Spain.

1999 – 2006

BA + MA

University of Applied Arts in Vienna

Graphic design

Graphic Design Magisterstudium (equivalent to BA + MA program) at the 
University of Applied Arts in Vienna