Animation and Game Design, BFA

Faculty

• Albena Dimitrova

  

  Associate Professor, Game and Digital Media Design
  Phone: 603.428.2437
  Email: adimitrova@nec.edu

  Expertise and Awards

  Expertise:

  • Game design and development
  • Coding
  • Multimedia and graphic design
  • Engineering
  • 3D modeling, 3D and 2D animation, technical drafting
  • Painting and drawing
  • Instructional design

   

  Awards:
  Ferretti-Karnstedt Award, Starkville, MS

  Educational Background
  MA in Graphic Design, Suffolk University
  MBA, Daniel Webster College
  MS in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Radio Communication Systems for the Navy, Varna Technical University, Bulgaria
  BSIS in Graphic Design and Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University

  Research Interests
  Game application in education

  Bio
  Albena Dimitrova began her career at NEC in 2017 as a Visiting Professor in Game and Digital Media Design for the newly created Game Design major, bringing with her 15 years of academia and industry experience. She gained an Assistant Professor position at NEC in 2019. Before joining NEC, Albena worked as a Program Chair in Digital Media at Mount Washington College. There she developed content for online and on-campus courses, training materials, and course guides. She served as a subject matter expert integrating instructional approaches and technologies. Her prior experience includes 10 years at ITT, where she held the position of Program Chair in Game Design and Multimedia. Among her responsibilities were course and faculty development and supervision of the instructors in the program.

  In her professional career, Albena has consulted academic and industry organizations on a number of game design and multimedia projects. She worked for Daniel Webster College on course development for their newly established Game Design program. She served as a Creative Director at Maxion Systems and as a Usability Interface Designer at Synaptic Global Learning, where she developed educational games and adaptive learning courses. She also worked on several projects for Altscale Cloud Services that included web design and multimedia.

  Before coming to the United States, Albena worked as a professor in radio communications for six years at the Maritime Academy in Bulgaria and as an adjunct professor at Varna Technical University.

  Albena has volunteered for the Bulgarian Center of New England and the Bulgarian School in Boston in the creation of web and digital content for promotional campaigns. She is fluent in the Bulgarian and Russian languages. In her free time, she likes watching disaster movies and painting, using both traditional and digital mediums.

• Rich Pellegrino

  

  Associate Professor, Illustration
  Phone: 603.428.2645
  Email: rpellegrino@nec.edu

  Educational Background
  MFA in Visual Arts, New England College
  BFA in Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design

  Bio
  Rich Pellegrino is an award-winning illustrator and Assistant Professor of Illustration and Comic Arts at New England College. His clients include: the NFL, Microsoft Xbox, AMC’s Breaking Bad, Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), the WWE, Valiant Comics, BOOM Studios Comics, Rovio (Angry Birds), Blue Moon Brewing Co., Planet Rock Magazine, MARVEL STUDIOS, Warner Bros., Lucasfilm, and Eric Clapton’s Guitar Festival 2010. His illustration for Planet Rock was awarded the Bronze Medal by the Society of Illustrators West 56. He is recognized by Spectrum 22, 24, and 26; Richmond Illustrators Club 2012; and CMYK 37.