Animation backgrounds

Three sample backgrounds for three different animation series. These projects are for 3-5 years old kids so overall style supposed to be pretty simple.

Editorial for Medved magazine

The article was about CEO of one of Russian biggest banks who dreams to become a writer one day.

Designers and God

Illustration for Lipka Design Studio

Editorial for Medved magazine

It’s about some Russian economist that deeply misses Soviet Union, hates homosexuals and hopes that gold will replace US Dollar in international financial system very soon.

You ain’t gonna go back to your room untill you finish this.

Unfinished illustration

Santa Job

This one is created for Russian security company “Andromeda” for their New Year calendar.

Stuck

Here comes the Christmas. Well not yet but it’s getting closer and closer so do I have to draw a lot of santa-reindeers-snow-gifts stuff.

This one was done for some Hamburg advertising agency. Huuuuge format – A0…120cm wide!

Your future is in your hands now

Wrong guy!

100!

Editorial for Blazer magazine. For their 100th issue.

Editorial

Opening double for Yedioth Ahronot newspaper.

Hussarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Greeting card.

GQ. Editorial.

New greeting card

Monster Family

You’ll be surprised but this one is not a personal project, it’s fully commercial artwork, which means they actually pay me for creating these ugly guys!

Season Six

My first attempt to create a realistic caricature.

Popeye the Sailor

Editorial for GQ magazine.

Parents

Editorial for GQ magazine. This material was pretty sad, was hard to illustrate it. It’s about author’s parents death and his feelings about it. It’s about loss, childhood memories and solitude.

Editorial for Blazer magazine

The article was about how to go on two-days vacation with four kids and survive.

Making-of

It’s close to 900K image. Please wait until it’s loaded.

I guess I have to give a little explanation here. There is no refining step between “flat” step 10 and “3D-like” step 11, just because there weren’t any additional steps. I just painted all the lights and shadows over the flat color. Step 12 shows the step when I switched to Corel Painter to blend all rough brushstrokes. Step 13 is color correction ( adding more blacks in shadows ) and …the signing:)

Can’t you see I’m busy here?

Greeting card

I am not done with you yet!

Greeting card

Speeeeeed paaaaaaint

I know I usually don’t tend to post here unfinished works, but this sketch I liked so much that decided to share it with the world, which means you people. Besides, who says it’s not finished? I’ve signed here!

I did it!

I’ve made into Animation Mentor Showcase 2009! What can I say guys? It’s was one hell of a surprise to find myself among all these really talented and hard-working people. Comparing to their work my animation looks pretty humble but hey I am in, that’s  what matters. At least for me.

Congratulations, Denis!:)

La Dolce Vita

Greeting card. Again. Somebody stop me!

Something new

Greeting card. Again.

P.S. I just love this yellow!

Editorial for GQ magazine

Birdy

Just a little something. Boring evening, 30 minutes of lazy doodling.

Swine flu

Smoking kills

Greeting card.

Editorial for Blazer magazine

The article was about Time Machine theme in sci-fi movies of recent few years.

Well it could be worse…

Quick sketch

40-minutes rough sketch, just for fun.

Super-pooper

Players

Editorial illustration for Yediot Aharonot newspaper.

P.S. I know this orange space looks a bit empty but I had to leave some place for title and text, so…

Guess who?

T-shirt print for Moscow “House M.D.” party.

Character design

Little project I did few months ago. Rejected by client.

Monday morning surprise

Another process

Finished piece

I think it’s been a while since I did something that lasted more than one day. This one took me three. Not around the clock of course but three sessions of 3-4 hours for sure.

By the way, I called him Ricco.

Step-by-step

Pimp

2 hours of playing around with Painter

Process

Character Design test

Bald Lady. Rejected by the client, by the way.

Character design test

Usually I tend to avoid tests for my clients because I think my abilities can be easily seen from my works, but this time I decided to do it  because here we are talking about feature animation project and this opportunity is so tempting that I just couldn’t resist.

The character suppose to be a nice, a little bit silly silly but still very charismatic little dictator.

New semester begins

Elliot M. Bour is my new mentor at Animationmentor.com. Animation director since 2000 he is directing right now an animated feature of his own. What can I say? I am excited as hell!

AM Class 4 Dialogue

Exotic food

Editorial for Playboy magazine.

Shitting on Kremlin

This one was made as editorial illustration for “Russian Life” magazine but due to it’s provoking manner eventually was banned and was never printed. I can be proud of myself.

Cow

Another one.