Hello!
I'm Maxim
I really love animation and cartoons, and now
I have a lot of experience as a 2D animator and Lead Animator.
I really love animation and cartoons, and now
I have a lot of experience as a 2D animator and Lead Animator.
Experienced 2D animator and lead animator who has worked on personal and professional projects.
Results-oriented, self-motivated and resourceful leader with the ability to build, develop and strengthen teams to improve the company's performance in line with its goals.
Excellent understanding of how to organize effective work of the whole project and set up a production pipeline.
Extensive experience in creating animation for YouTube.
A great visual experience in cartoons and YouTube projects, feeling trends.
Strive for high quality in all aspects of animation, from ideas and scripts to execution.
Good mentor with skills in asynchronous communication, time management and personal communication, interacting with a team of 11 animators from different cultures and time zones, deadline control.
Easy to find an approach to everyone, motivating and able to negotiate.
Fluent in Moho, Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Adobe Bridge.
Strengths: persistence, diligence, communication skills, sense of humor and mentoring abilities.
Creator and 2D animator June 2023 - May 2024
Freelance
Creating ideas, animations and producing YouTube channels.
Lead 2D Animator Jan 2022 - Mar 2023
TheSoul Publishing, Cyprus
Achievements:
- Worked at a major international company and developed startup projects on YouTube together with the producers from scratch to 800 thousand subscribers;
- Lead a team of animators, directed successful videos, gaining more than 2 million views per year;
- Built teams for startups from scratch out of animators at junior level, many of whom I trained to middle and senior levels;
- Managed a team of 11 animators located around the world, living in different time zones and with different cultures, religions, races, genders and gender identities. In addition, I have interacted with and indirectly managed the work of illustrators, riggers, and storyboarders;
- Increased the number of video publications per week by a factor of 2 by creating more animation-friendly character rigs and recommendations for animators to simplify and speed up animation without losing quality;
- Wrote over 10 training articles for my teams in confluence;
- My experience of creating animations for YouTube and working in the sphere of YouTube is more than 5 years.
Responsibilities:
- distribution of tasks, quality control animation, rigging, illustration;
storyboard, technical tasks, scripts and project deadlines, file storage control;
- monitoring the performance of duties of 2D animators;
- feedback, check and issue revisions to other animators, video direction;
- training of team members;
- motivation of team members;
- holding meetings and master class;
- preparation and writing of project instructions;
- creation of animation;
- video editing;
- suggestions for improving the quality and success of the project;
- participation in brainstorming, new ideas, optimization, and so on.
2D Animator Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
TheSoul Publishing, remote
Achievements:
- greatly improved my skills as a professional;
- grew from a junior animator to a senior animator in six months;
- learned to do a large amount of work in a short time;
- videos that I animated have more than 6 million views.
Responsibilities:
Creation of 2D animation, video editing, adding visual effects, compliance with deadlines.
2D Animator Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
StoryTime, remote
Creation of 2D animation, compliance with deadlines.
2D Animator Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
freelance
Scriptwriting, Storyboard, Character Creation, Illustration, Rigging, Animation Creation, Video Editing, Design, Clients search, Completion with deadline.
Graphic Design 2016 - 2020
Autonomous non-profit organization of higher education "University under the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the EurAsEC", Sankt-Petersburg.
Bachelor's degree
Lawyer 2013 - 2016
State budgetary professional educational institution Ufa College of Statistics, Informatics and Computer Engineering, Ufa.
Associate Degree
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