I did a keynote speach at the computer graphics conference "CG Event 2015" in Moscow.

I shared my life story about how I got to DreamWorks. Talked about me getting started in the CG industry, moving to New York and styuding at NYU, looking for job and how we make movies at DreamWorks Animation.

The crowd was supper nice and I could not resist to give few gifts at the end of the talk. Thanks everyone who came to listen to me.

http://www.cgevent.ru/?p=10063

 Check out my interview to cg-school.org. There is also a 15 minute studio tour at the beggining. 

P.s. I am speaking Russian there :)

Whoho first trailer is Kung Fu Panda 3 is finaly out! I counted 10 of my shots there. I was working on section where we look at Panda dad.

Catch the movie world wide in March 2016. 

I am very exited to start working on Kung Fu Panda 3. Kung Fu Panda series has always been of my favorite and is one of the reasons I joined dreamworks. When I jus joined DWA they were finishing Kung Fu Panda 2 and I did not get a chance to work on it. But now I can finaly show some Kung Fu myself :)

How To Train Your Dragon 2 received today Academy Award nomination for "Best Animated Feature Film". Congrats to the entire cast and crew!

Interesting fact: How to Train Your Dragon became the first franchise to have all its films nominated for Best Animated Feature. Only one sequel (Toy Story 3) has ever won the award.

Will keep my fingers crossed on Februrary 22 :)

How To Train Your Dragon 2 took home the best animated feature film prize at the 2015 Golden Globes ceremony Sunday.

I am very proud to be a part of the crew. Congrats to Dean DeBlois (director), Bonnie Arnold (producer), Jeffrey Katzenberg (CEO of DWA), the whole crew of the film (over 400 people) and DreamWorks Animation studio.

I've delivered my last shot today for "Penguins of Madagascar" movie.

It was a fun and exciting 7 weeks. Our team did a very good and almost impossible job lighting a very complex sequence of 86 shots and 3 minutes 47 seconds long.

I have not seen the whole movie yet. But from what I've seen so far I can say that this is going to be a great movie!

Here is a picture of our team with directors of the movie.

From left to right:

Isabelle Feintrenie - Production Coordinator

Gabriel Portnof - CG supervisor

Wei-Feng Huang - Technical Director

Eric Darnell - Director

Kirill Smolskiy - Ligting Artist

Simon J Smith - Director

Erich Burchfeild - Technical Assistant

Sondra Verlander - Lead Lighting Artist

Dmitry Shklyar - Lighting Artist

Lyndon Li - Lead Lighting Artist

Rupali Parekh - Ligting Artist

I have been recruited for a super-secret mission and joining the forces of "Penguins of Madagascar". Will be helping our beloved top-secret spies (Skipper, Rico, Kowalski and Private) saving the world for the next 7 weeks. Catch the movie on Thanksgiving day. 

Meanwhile I welcome you to get acquainted with the project files. 

Synopsys:

Super spy teams aren’t born…they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from destroying the world as we know it.

Trailer:

It is already official. I am joining the crew of movie "Home" as a lighting artist. Movie is scheduled to hit theaters in March 2015. It's a very cute comedy starring Rhianna , Jenifer Lopez and Jim Parsons. Check out the trailer and a little short. Very cute and funny!

Synopsis:

When Earth is taken over by the overly confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip, manages to avoid capture, she finds herself the accidental accomplice of a banished Boov named Oh. The two fugitives realize there's a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations as they embark on the road trip of a lifetime.

I was interviewed by a Russian magazine "Snob" (snob.ru) about a movie "How to Train Your Dragon 2" and work at DreamWorks. I did not expect it to get so viral :).

Few news papers and online magazines in Kaliningrad, Russia reposted the interview making me look like a "Rock Star". Story about me was on a front page of one the most read news paper in Kaliningrad. And even there was a brief news on the Radio. :)

Thanks everybody for all your support!!!

Here is a link to the original interview:

Snob.ru

And other articles that covered my interview:

Klops.ru

Kp.ru