Roman Vladimirovich Davydov (Russian: Роман
Ð'ладимирович Ð"авыдов; 9 April [O.S. 27 March] 1913
â€" 17 September 1988) was a Soviet animation director, animator,
artist and educator. He was named Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in
1980.Roman Davydov was born in Moscow. As a kid he grew up in a house
with stables; he watched horses for hours and drew them. His love for
animal art and his knowledge of anatomy would later make him one of
the most wanted animators every time someone directed movies involving
animals, especially horses. According to Yevgeniy Migunov, only two
other animators at Soyuzmultfilm could match him: Grigory Kozlov and
Nikolay Fyodorov, both with their own approaches, and they always
tried to outbest each other.Davydov graduated from the Moscow
Industrial Technikum and spent several years working as an engineer.
In the free time he practiced the art of caricature. In 1932 the
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union held out a competition for the
best caricature where Davydov took the third place. This inspired him
to went through professional training at the two-year courses
organized by the Krokodil magazine, and in 1937 he joined animation
courses at Soyuzmultfilm. His first movies date back to 1939.He worked
in traditional animation up until 1955 when he joined the recently
opened puppet division of Soyuzmultfilm and produced several stop
motion films. He was the only director of that time who used an
old-fashioned, time-consuming method of filming dolls with changeable
parts last practiced by Aleksandr Ptushko. In 1961 Davydov produced A
Goatling, one of the first traditionally animated experiments of the
Khrushchev Thaw that introduced a "formalistic", caricature art style
in contrast with the realistic approach usual for that era. He
continued developing it in his next projects, most notably the
political satire Shareholders & Co (1963) and The Main Stellar (1966),
a rare example of Soviet science fiction. Davydov experimented a lot
with schematic, "angular", yet stylized characters, total animation,
combinations of static composition and various details in motion,
several panoramas moving at different speed in one shot and so on.
Ð'ладимирович Ð"авыдов; 9 April [O.S. 27 March] 1913
â€" 17 September 1988) was a Soviet animation director, animator,
artist and educator. He was named Honoured Artist of the RSFSR in
1980.Roman Davydov was born in Moscow. As a kid he grew up in a house
with stables; he watched horses for hours and drew them. His love for
animal art and his knowledge of anatomy would later make him one of
the most wanted animators every time someone directed movies involving
animals, especially horses. According to Yevgeniy Migunov, only two
other animators at Soyuzmultfilm could match him: Grigory Kozlov and
Nikolay Fyodorov, both with their own approaches, and they always
tried to outbest each other.Davydov graduated from the Moscow
Industrial Technikum and spent several years working as an engineer.
In the free time he practiced the art of caricature. In 1932 the
Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union held out a competition for the
best caricature where Davydov took the third place. This inspired him
to went through professional training at the two-year courses
organized by the Krokodil magazine, and in 1937 he joined animation
courses at Soyuzmultfilm. His first movies date back to 1939.He worked
in traditional animation up until 1955 when he joined the recently
opened puppet division of Soyuzmultfilm and produced several stop
motion films. He was the only director of that time who used an
old-fashioned, time-consuming method of filming dolls with changeable
parts last practiced by Aleksandr Ptushko. In 1961 Davydov produced A
Goatling, one of the first traditionally animated experiments of the
Khrushchev Thaw that introduced a "formalistic", caricature art style
in contrast with the realistic approach usual for that era. He
continued developing it in his next projects, most notably the
political satire Shareholders & Co (1963) and The Main Stellar (1966),
a rare example of Soviet science fiction. Davydov experimented a lot
with schematic, "angular", yet stylized characters, total animation,
combinations of static composition and various details in motion,
several panoramas moving at different speed in one shot and so on.
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