as told by animators
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13 августа 2018
Animator and illustrator
It is amazing to work in the field of animation. I am lucky that I have an opportunity to create cartoons. In childhood it was everyone's dream.
I am from Moscow, but right now I live in Paris and work remotely as an illustrator and animator for the USA, Russia and Hong Kong. I graduated university with the major in software engineering. My parents doubted that I would earn money as an artist and asked me to pick a major that will definitely feed me. I got my IT degree but never worked in that field because that was never what I wanted to do. I didn't get any professional art education because as a child I didn't have a financial opportunity to take intensive art classes, so I taught myself how to do it intuitively. In the end of 2012, while I was in university I have started to draw more intensely and professionally, and I understood that people liked my art and I might have a chance as an artist.
To teach myself to draw while studying IT was very hard. That is why after I graduated I have spent a year sitting at home just drawing my portfolio to find my dream job. I have come a long way through a lot of criticism, self-doubt and denials to find a job in a studio in Moscow and remotely in the USA. Only then I felt confident and realized that all of that was not for nothing.
