Interests
Working experience
Graphic Designer
Mar 2020 — present
Currently working at SKB Kontur. Making digital, video, and print for 7+ different company products. Designing custom artwork, layout, and typography using Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere,
After Effects.
Freelance illustrator
and animator
Aug 2012 — present
Making presentations, animation illustrations, including a design of marketing materials.
Developed an "Insane" film presentation for the pitching at the Cinema Foundation of Russia.
Worked as a contract illustrator with animated mascots of the Talisman and English Fit language schools, developed illustrations for souvenir products. Animated vector characters.
Film Director
Feb 2019 — Feb 2020
Production of an animated film "Alaska". Was making script, storyboards, character design. Was also engaged in drawing scenes, making animation, special effects. Lead more than 10 people.
Film artist
and animator
Jun 2012 — Dec 2018
Made animation and art with traditional, paint-on-glass, hand-drawn, 2d digital techniques. Worked for film directors of following films: the "Neighbors" of Valentina Arkhipova, "Loss" of Evgeniya Hazihanova, "Basilisk" of Vera Pozdeeva, "Button" of Maxim Kulikov, "Hot Jazz" of Elena Tikhonova.
Skills and expertize
Figma
Microsoft office
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premiere
Cinema4D
Blender
Tilda
TVPaint
Russian
English
Czech
Japanese
Collaboration
Public speaking
Сritical thinking
Brainstorming
Emotional Intelligence
Storytelling
Designing distinctive characters and mascots for animated and non-animated materials
Creating comics, storytelling
and storyboards
Design of marketing materials, such as lending pages, online banner ads, e-mails, presentations
Making computer graphics
and hand-drawn art
Photographing, photo retouching, creating collages, removing objects, color correction
Creating vector illustration, icons, working with other people's layouts
Awards and certificates
Film festival awards, 2019 – 2022
Created an animated short film Alaska. It passed the selections of more than 15 international film festivals, and got a few prestigious awards.
See more on the "Alaska" page.
Long stories of Perm festival, 2011
Won the competition of the international Public art festival "Long stories of Perm" and managed to transfer the art project "Cat and mouse" from my
own layouts to 12 concrete fence sections.
Just Media movie posters competition, 2011
Victory in The Best Project Presentation nomination with Sergey Hmelinin
Archiperspective festival, 2013 — 2017
Multiple partisipant of an "Archiperspective" festival, the national competition of student art creativity held annually since 2006 at the Ural State University
of Architecture and Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia, together with the Russian Academy of Art. Attended the competition, passed the selection to participation
in an art exhibition
"Environmental safety of industrial cities — improving the quality of life of citizens" conference, 2016
Active participation diploma. Within the framework of the conference, a photo exhibition was held, at which my following works were presented:
"1905", "Delusion" and "Business Center".
International Festival-Workshop of Film Schools "Kinoproba", 2012 — 2020
Multiple partisipant. The "Kinoproba" is held annually in Yekaterinburg from 1 to 5 December. The format of the festival "Kinoproba" is unique: it is not
just a festival-competition, festival celebration, but also a festival-workshop. The festival participants are representatives of various film schools around the world. In 2012 "Little tales of Kipling" the common project of 1st and 2nd year students of the Department of Graphics and Animation was awarded in the "Best Project" nomination. The Best animated project with the "Alaska" frameworks in 2016.
Education
Babylon english center certificate, 2015
Language сertificate of the Babylon Educational Center at the upper-intermediate level with an "A" grade.
Charles University czech course, 2015
Certificate confirming successful completion of the Czech language course in Prague and passing the final exam with an "A" grade.
YU language academy course, 2014
Certificate confirming successful completion of the Japanese language course in Tokyo and passing the final exam with an "A" grade.
Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, 2011 — 2016
Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects. Master's degree: diploma with Distinction
Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, 2016 — 2018
International Association of Student Television course, 2020
All-Russian Youth Educational Forum "Territory of Meanings", 2019
Igor Shtang's "Typography and layout" course, 2021
UI/UX Design traineeship, 2021
Graphic design. Master's degree: diploma with Distinction
Educational intensives at the Youth Center for Media and Communications of the International Association of Student Television.
Two-weeks IT educational workshop
Two-days design workshop held by SKB Kontur
Two-weeks UI/UX design traineeship with professional mentore at the SKB Kontur
Daniil Kontorovich workshop, 2015
A two-day art photography master class by Daniil Kontorovich participation diploma.
A motion and graphic designer with
5+ years of experience. A director
of an animated short film Alaska which
has participated in more than 15 international film festivals. Love motion design and character animation.

Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma.
Currently working at SKB Kontur.
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