What I do: animatics, rough animation, clean-up and colour fill. Now: clean-up and colour fill on Nikita Meshcheryakov’s film «Tears in Rain». I’m looking for a place in a studio that makes feature films, series or music videos.

Animatic first, final second. I time the whole piece as an animatic, then redraw it shot by shot into the final. The drawing changes, the timing stays.

01 Challenge. Show the whole cycle of life in one song, from its birth to a nuclear blast, and make the blast a threshold, not an end. Animated music video for Zetsubou P. Concept, storyboard, animatic and animation are mine.

02 Idea. One continuous metamorphosis instead of cuts. A blast opens into an eye, the eye grows a snake, eyes sprout on stalks, the body turns inside out and the heart becomes a skull. Later a falling spark catches fire, and the fire turns into a fish.

03 Process. Every shot is drawn rough in the animatic first, timed to the music, and then redrawn as the final: black ink, cream line, one red.

04 Result. The full animatic is done and more than half of the final animation is ready. The rest still lives as an animatic: here is one piece of it, from the drop that falls into the fire to the skull that explodes.

01 Challenge. Turn two objects, a pack of cigarettes and a box of matches, into characters and give them a western duel: tension, a fight and a feeling, all in 30 seconds.

02 Idea. Play the classic western by its own rules: the wide shot, the extreme close-up of the eyes, the bullet in slow motion. Only the actors are objects.