MEET THE TEAM

Digidemy instructors are amongst the best creatives in the industry. It's highly likely that you've seen their work before in a film or commercial you've watched, a publication you've read, or an ad that grabbed your attention during your daily commute to work.
Ozgur Gorgun
Filmmaker, Motion Designer, 3D Artist
Ozgur Gorgun is an award winning filmmaker, photographer and motion designer. He has been working in the film and TV industry both in the UK and abroad for over a decade.

He is an Adobe Certified Expert, Video Specialist and Instructor. He is also one of the very few Maxon Certified Cinema 4D Trainers in the world.

Ozgur taught and worked with some of the biggest names in the industry such as SKY, BBC, Sony Pictures, ITV, Google, Microsoft, to name a few.

He is the director of Docklands Media, UK's top creative media training provider.
Martin Perhiniak
Graphic Designer
Martin Perhiniak is a Certified Adobe Design Master and Instructor. He was recently voted to be one of the top 10 Adobe instructors in the world by student feedback.

In his online courses beside the technical knowledge you need, Martin will also teach you a lot about design principles, compositional techniques and plenty of best practices that he developed while working as a designer and retoucher on projects such as Pixar's Cars and Toy Story, BBC's Dr Who and Mattel's Team Hot Wheels.

He is the founder of Yes I'm a Designer - a successful online community for designers.

Maxim Jago
Film Director, Script Writer, Author
Maxim Jago is an award winning film director, script writer, international stage presenter, and the author of the official Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition Classroom in a Book - the standard text used by film schools all around the world. He is also the author of official training videos for Avid Media Composer.

He has written for national magazines and been quoted by authors in books on film making practice. He's taught everyone from schoolchildren to professors, from the Australian ABC network to the UK's BBC.

He's an Adobe Master Trainer, Grass Valley Master Trainer and Avid Certified Instructor.
Matthew O'Neill
Cinema 4D Expert
Matthew has been professionnally using and teaching Cinema 4D since 1999 when he started working at Maxon, the creators of the software. Tasked with writing manuals and presenting at shows, he helped to improve the software and push its adoption across the industry.

Frustrated with what he saw as a lack of quality Cinema 4D training content, he co-founded 3D Fluff in 2003, focusing on real-world problems that users would typically face.

Today Matthew continues to enjoy producing new Cinema 4D training content along with West End theatre backdrops in London, product visuals, architecture, exhibitions and motion graphics.
Daniel Walter Scott
Media Designer, Author
Daniel has been a media designer for 15+ years & teaching just as long. He is an Adobe certified instructor (ACI) & speaker at the annual Adobe Max conference.

Having taught thousands of students both online and in person, Dan knows exactly what it takes to make a course fun and engaging. His unique style of teaching is certainly going to help you take your skills to the next level.

Dan's attitude towards teaching tells more than what we could write here in paragraphs. "Sharing is who I am. Teaching is when I'm at my best!".
Steve Fagan
Architect
Steve Fagan has a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Technology and close to 10 years practical experience working for an award winning residential development company. He undertook all project-related design and management tasks requiring him to design, draw and coordinate from the beginning of every project, no matter what the scale or scope of the project was.

All design tasks were developed using AutoCAD and Revit which Steve has been using for 15 years. He has been certified by Autodesk as a Professional under the ACP, he is also a certified trainer under the ATP and is also recognized as an Autodesk Expert Elite. Steve has extensive experience as a trainer teaching small and large groups both in-situ, in a class room and online digitally.

Rod Cleasby
3D Visualisation, Digital Artwork and CAD Expert
Rod Cleasby is a designer who uses AutoCAD, 3ds Max and a whole variety of digital products to visualise and communicate to his clients and audience. His commercial career has included
Architecture, Interior Design, Super Yacht Design, Visualisation, Video and Digital Art.

He developed his training at Westminster University where he taught digital visualisation and CAD alongside his own design studio.

Rod is a certified Autodesk Professional and Trainer with years of experience working with Autodesk, SketchUp and Adobe products. At Digidemy, he is now developing an online strategy to enable the next generation of designers and digital artists.