Aleksander Mihailovich Tatarskiy (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Михайлович Ð¢Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; December 11, 1950 â€" July
22, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter,
animator, producer and artist, co-founder and artistic director of the
Pilot studio. An Honored Artist of Russia (2000). Laureate of the
State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts
(1998).Tatarskiy was born in Kiev into a family of Jewish origin. His
father Mikhail Semyonovich Tatarskiy worked in circus and wrote gags
for such clowns as Oleg Popov and Yuri Nikulin who was a close family
friend. In 1974 Aleksander graduated from the Kiev Institute of
Theatre and Cinema and in 1975 he finished 3-year animation courses at
Goskino. From 1968 to 1980 he worked at Kievnauchfilm under the
director David Cherkassky as an artist and animator. Among his works
of that time was Adventures of Captain Wrongel.During the studies he
met Igor Kovalyov who became his close friend and a co-author on many
projects. Together they recovered a camera from the studio's junkyard,
built a handmade animation stand and created their first "underground"
animated film Speaking of Birds in 1974. It wasn't released to public;
instead they showed it to several prominent animation directors from
Soyuzmultfilm who booked them two places at High Courses for
Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Nevertheless, Kievnauchfilm refused
to let Tatarskiy go. In 1980 Kovalyov went to Moscow alone. Shortly
after Tatarskiy arrived on his own.He managed to get work at
Multtelefilm division of Studio Ekran with the help of Eduard Uspensky
who wrote the screenplay for Tatarskiy's first director's effort â€"
Plasticine Crow (1981), which also happened to be Soviet first
claymation film. After the enormous success Tatarskiy was offered to
create new opening and closing sequences for the popular children's TV
show Good Night, Little Ones! also made of plasticine; they were later
included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of
broadcasts. It was followed by two other claymation shorts: New Year's
Eve Song by Ded Moroz (1982) and Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983).
From 1984 on he worked in traditional animation only.
Михайлович Ð¢Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ñ€Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; December 11, 1950 â€" July
22, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian animation director, screenwriter,
animator, producer and artist, co-founder and artistic director of the
Pilot studio. An Honored Artist of Russia (2000). Laureate of the
State Prize of the Russian Federation in literature and arts
(1998).Tatarskiy was born in Kiev into a family of Jewish origin. His
father Mikhail Semyonovich Tatarskiy worked in circus and wrote gags
for such clowns as Oleg Popov and Yuri Nikulin who was a close family
friend. In 1974 Aleksander graduated from the Kiev Institute of
Theatre and Cinema and in 1975 he finished 3-year animation courses at
Goskino. From 1968 to 1980 he worked at Kievnauchfilm under the
director David Cherkassky as an artist and animator. Among his works
of that time was Adventures of Captain Wrongel.During the studies he
met Igor Kovalyov who became his close friend and a co-author on many
projects. Together they recovered a camera from the studio's junkyard,
built a handmade animation stand and created their first "underground"
animated film Speaking of Birds in 1974. It wasn't released to public;
instead they showed it to several prominent animation directors from
Soyuzmultfilm who booked them two places at High Courses for
Scriptwriters and Film Directors. Nevertheless, Kievnauchfilm refused
to let Tatarskiy go. In 1980 Kovalyov went to Moscow alone. Shortly
after Tatarskiy arrived on his own.He managed to get work at
Multtelefilm division of Studio Ekran with the help of Eduard Uspensky
who wrote the screenplay for Tatarskiy's first director's effort â€"
Plasticine Crow (1981), which also happened to be Soviet first
claymation film. After the enormous success Tatarskiy was offered to
create new opening and closing sequences for the popular children's TV
show Good Night, Little Ones! also made of plasticine; they were later
included into the Guinness Book of Records by the number of
broadcasts. It was followed by two other claymation shorts: New Year's
Eve Song by Ded Moroz (1982) and Last Year's Snow Was Falling (1983).
From 1984 on he worked in traditional animation only.
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