Metin Seven | Sevensheaven.nl

Current

Owner, designer and illustrator at Seven's Heaven (Self-employed)
Freelance designer, illustrator and animator at Comic House

Past

Senior animator at IJsfontein
Senior designer at Van Dijk Multimedia
Co-manager of semi-independent multimedia production division at Spin multimedia

Game designer and game graphics creator at Valkieser New Media
Owner and computer graphics creator at Metin Seven Digital Art Productions
Editor at Divo Publishing

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Education

Comic House animation and illustration studio
Willem de Zwijger college
Koningin Emmaschool

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Metin Seven | Sevensheaven.nl’s Summary

Computer aficionado since the early days of the digital revolution.

Cartoonist for the Dutch Nu.nl news website.

Illustrator for various Dutch national magazines and newspapers, including Esquire, Elsevier weekblad, NRC.next and De Volkskrant.

Creator of the Seamour Sheep comics and toys.

Designer of characters and logos for companies, campaigns and products.

Visualizer of photorealistic 3D product impressions.

Game designer and graphic artist of commercial computer games for the Commodore Amiga, CD32 console, MS-DOS, MS-Windows, Apple, Windows Mobile, Simbian and Web. Titles include Hoi, Clockwiser and Moon Child.

3ds Max, V-Ray, Maxwell and Photoshop trainer.

Co-creator of two VPRO television animation series: Mannetje & Mannetje and Tattletoons.

Internationally represented by the Comic House agency.

You're invited for a visit to www.sevensheaven.nl for an impression and more information.

Metin Seven | Sevensheaven.nl’s Specialties:

visual concepts, 3D modeling, character design, character development, 3D renderers, illustration, cartoons, comics, logo design, toy design, industrial design, photo-realistic visualization, 3D graphics, 2D vector graphics, 2D pixel graphics, animation

Metin Seven | Sevensheaven.nl’s Experience

Owner, designer and illustrator
Seven's Heaven (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Design industry)

November 1998 — Present (11 years 1 month)

Company owner and experienced creator of visual media. Read the summary for details and you're invited for a visit to www.sevensheaven.nl for my online portfolio.
Freelance designer, illustrator and animator

Comic House

(Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)

1989 — Present (20 years )

The Dutch Comic House agency has remained a faithful intermediary for many years now, representing my work since I started as a freelance professional in 1989.
Senior animator

IJsfontein

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

December 2000 — April 2001 (5 months)

Project-based freelance employment on location to co-realize the production of an innovative interactive animated television series called Tattletoons. In 2001 the series won an EMMA multimedia award in Cannes and was exposed in Time Magazine as a pioneering project in the field of interactive television.
Senior designer

Van Dijk Multimedia

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

August 1999 — June 2000 (11 months)

My last attempt to take shelter under the safe payroll umbrella of a company. Guided two apprentice designers and myself through a small year of several multimedia design projects, after which I finally knew for sure that I wanted to stay an independent professional once and for all.
Co-manager of semi-independent multimedia production division

Spin multimedia

(Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — November 1998 (11 months)

Set up the Jaytown production division for the Spin multimedia company, together with a partner. Created several multimedia software products and games for the advertisement industry during that period. Resigned to return to the varied world of freelancing. Changed my one-man company name into Seven's Heaven for a fresh start.
Game designer and game graphics creator

Valkieser New Media

(Computer Games industry)

October 1995 — July 1997 (1 year 10 months)

During this period I ran a semi-autonomous computer games creation division, together with a partner. We created a commercial Microsoft Windows game named Moon Child, published by Valkieser Publishing. The game became nominated for an EMMA multimedia award in Cannes. After the completion of Moon Child I left Valkieser New Media because of sombre prospects for the company at that time.
Owner and computer graphics creator

Metin Seven Digital Art Productions

(Design industry)

July 1989 — October 1995 (6 years 4 months)

My initial company as a freelance computer graphics creator. Projects included co-creating 10 episodes of the animated television series 'Mannetje & Mannetje' for VPRO television at the Dutch Comic House studio.

During this period I also co-created a number of internationally published computer games and two music editors. The titles, in chronological order:

1: Sidmon (music editor, 1989),
2: Venomwing (shoot-'em-up game, 1990),
3: Digital Mugician (sequel to Sidmon, 1990),
4: Hoi (platform game, 1992),
5: Cognition (puzzle game, 1993),
6: Clockwiser (puzzle game, 1994).
7: Moon Child (platform game, initial Amiga version in 1995. The game was later reinitiated for Valkieser New Media).

In early 1993 I co-created the first and second demonstration in the world for the new generation of Amiga computers, before Commodore's official hardware guides were published. The demos were titled Planet Groove and Mindwarp, forming part 1 and 2 of the Hoi sAGA demo trilogy.
Editor

Divo Publishing

(Publishing industry)

August 1989 — September 1989 (2 months)

Worked at Divo Publishing as an editor and author for Amiga Magazine. Resigned soon after an offer from the Dutch Comic House agency I couldn't refuse.

Metin Seven | Sevensheaven.nl’s Education

Comic House animation and illustration studio

Creation of computer animation and illustration for television, game and multimedia projects 1989 — 1992

Learned a lot from several experienced illustration and animation professionals during this very inspiring period.

Activities and Societies:

Worked for customers such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Ogilvy & Mather, VPRO television and Top Drawers.
Willem de Zwijger college

Diploma gained , English, Dutch, German, Economy I, Economy II, History , 1982 — 1989

I was not much of a school-minded guy and loved self-teaching in the real world much more than being taught in a classroom. During the last years of college I was already repeatedly traveling to London in weekends to meet potential publishers for our computer games.

Activities and Societies:

In the late Eighties I was a member of the Digital Force International Amiga demo scene group. As a DFI member I created a number of widespread crazy raps together with my fellow team members Ramon Braumuller, Reinier van Vliet, Jeroen Oudejans and Hein Laan.
Koningin Emmaschool

Elementary school 1976 — 1982

My elementary school in the town of Bussum.