ali cagan uzman

I have been an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Beykoz Uni­ver­si­ty in Istan­bul, where I teach var­i­ous cours­es includ­ing Char­ac­ter Design, Illus­tra­tion, Draw­ing and Mod­el­ling, Motion Graph­ics, and Visu­al Design. These cours­es are offered in the Car­toon and Ani­ma­tion, Graph­ic Design, Radio Tele­vi­sion and Cin­e­ma, and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and Design depart­ments with­in the Fac­ul­ty of Art and Design.

I com­plet­ed my PhD at Mar­mara Uni­ver­si­ty in the Depart­ment of Adver­tis­ing and Pro­mo­tion, where my research focused on the effects of adver­tis­ing on indi­vid­u­als’ career choic­es. Along with my aca­d­e­m­ic expe­ri­ence, I have also been work­ing as a senior art direc­tor at MG Cre­ative Strat­e­gy Agency for 11 years. Addi­tion­al­ly, for the last two years, I have been work­ing as an ani­ma­tion artist remote­ly for the Lon­don-based adver­tis­ing agency, Beige.

As a free­lance artist, I have col­lab­o­rat­ed with numer­ous clients such as Net­flix, PBS, BBC, the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion, UNESCO, the Turk­ish Min­istry of Cul­ture and Tourism, HBO, and the Fly­ing Broom Film Fes­ti­val. Notably, the short ani­mat­ed doc­u­men­tary titled Camp Con­fi­den­tial: America’s Secret Nazis, for which I worked as a title design­er and graph­ic design­er, was nom­i­nat­ed for Out­stand­ing Graph­ic Design and Art Direc­tion, and Out­stand­ing Music Com­po­si­tion in the 43rd News & Doc­u­men­tary Emmys, and was short­list­ed in the Best Doc­u­men­tary Short Sub­ject cat­e­go­ry in the 94th Acad­e­my Awards.

In addi­tion to my pro­fes­sion­al work, I cre­ate illus­tra­tions and art­works for exhi­bi­tions and have my own NFT col­lec­tion. I have also received awards and par­tic­i­pat­ed in ani­ma­tion and short film fes­ti­vals, such as the Euro­pean Human Rights Fes­ti­val, where my film was a final­ist.

As an assis­tant pro­fes­sor, my pri­ma­ry goal is to stay up-to-date with the lat­est devel­op­ments in the field of ani­ma­tion and guide my stu­dents towards achiev­ing their best poten­tial through my expe­ri­ence