Director, Lead Animator and Puppet master
I was finishing my master's degree in economics and felt that numbers were not my thing. I wanted to deal with real magic. That's when I started studying animation, first at Animation School, and then with Sasha Dorogov.
In 2015, I started working at Petrick as a classical animator, and soon I plunged into pixel art. Over the past 6 years, I have been involved in all the pixel projects of the studio and have been the lead animator on many projects, including award-winning ones at festivals such as ADC, White Square, G8, and others.
Now I also work as a director. My debut project, a music video for the Norwegian performer Aurora, was the studio's first puppet work, and a meeting point of my favorite work and my main hobby - model building. As one of my hobbies for the past 15 years, I have been assembling and painting miniatures and creating dioramas.
In my opinion, the best animation can be seen not in flashy action scenes, but in slow, subtle scenes, where even the slightest movements of a character can reveal their inner feelings. Humor is also important to me in my work. It's a powerful tool, so even in serious stories, I try to find a place for a moment that will make people smile, to enhance the emotional range of the video.
