There was also British Higher School of Design, where I taught animation as part of the Visual Communications course by Leonid Slavin, and also the editing department of the Moscow School of Cinema.

Tell us about your way into the profession: how you started out, where you studied, how you ended up at REN TV.

Ill try to tell you how I started out; I love telling about it.

My older brother Alexey once came back from work and told me, They are launching a new TV channel and need people.

I said, Okay, but what kind of people do they need He said, They need you to know some Photoshop thing.

I was thinking, Im a computer genius, I know everything, dont I So I went downstairs to a bookshop, took the first Photoshop tutorial that I found and read it right there, because I had no money to buy it.

Then I put the book back on the shelf, went home, recreated the lessons I read about, uploaded them on a floppy disk, and gave my brother.

When I looked at that portfolio a couple of months later, I was horrified and confused how they even hired me with this.

And they went, Youll have to learn non-linear editing, DPS Reality, DPS Velocity.

Also study up on After Effects, Illustrator, and some caption tools.

Dumbfounded, I asked, After-what My future boss only laughed.

It turned out that they were looking to launch the Sport TV channel in a month and wanted to staff the live graphics department with the designers on a short notice.

I yelled, What kind of magic is that Let me broadcast, I want to try it right now.

They gave me a weird look, Are you okay We are taking you in as an intern, and then well see.

Another year or soand I became the department head, and in half a year they gave me the broadcast graphics department.

I was young and hot-headed; I wanted to conquer new horizons.

I went to work in a mobile phone content production company for a year.

We did advertising there, but a year later I wanted back on the TV.

Then I worked for Krasny Kvadrat for some time, and subsequently transferred to the Zvezda TV channel.

After Zvezda, I worked for Channel One Russia in the news department.

I was developing concepts used to embed new live graphics elements.

At the same time, I worked on the Vesti-Moscow program on the Russia-1 channel in the same capacity.

All this time I also taught the motion design course and was a curator at the Scream School, a school of computer graphics.

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