Yevgeny Tikhonovich Migunov (Russian: Евгений
Тихонович Мигунов; February 27, 1921 â€" January 1,
2004) was a Russian artist, cartoonist, book illustrator, animation
and art director, screenwriter, inventor, educator and memoirist. He
is regarded as one of the leading innovators during the Khrushchev
Thaw who contributed significantly to both traditional and stop motion
animation.Yevgeny and his sister Nina were born in Moscow into a
family of Tikhon Grigorievich Migunov, a low-ranking official in one
of the ministries, and Maria Konstantinovna Migunova. Yevgeny was
diagnosed with cerebral palsy of his left leg and remained lame
throughout his life, hiding it and compensating by various activities.
His mother blamed obstetrician for hitting the nerve. Following her
sudden death in 1928 Tikhon Migunov married her sister, Zinaida.In
1928 Migunov graduated from the P. N. Lepeshinsky Experimental
School-Commune and spent a year at the art school. In 1939 he entered
the newly-founded Art Faculty at VGIK as one of the four students of
the first official Russian animation workshop headed by Ivan
Ivanov-Vano. Besides Ivanov-Vano his teachers were Fyodor Bogorodsky
and Fyodor Konstantinov. He had a hard time following the programme
and learned art by studying paintings by classical Russian artists. He
also learned a lot from his classmate, close friend and future
collaborator Anatoly Sazonov who came from an artistic family and
whose talent he highly regarded. Migunov gained money by drawing
miniatures for the Novodevichy Convent Museum.With the start of the
Great Patriotic War in 1941 he joined the volunteer corps of the 38th
rifle regiment of the 13th Rostokino division along with the fellow
students, hiding his disability. He was awarded the 2nd Class Order of
the Patriotic War in 1987. In Autumn they returned to VGIK, but with
the start of the Battle of Moscow it was evacuated to Alma-Ata along
with Mosfilm and Lenfilm. They continued the studies, conducted art
exhibitions and developed cartoons. In 1943 Migunov defended his
diploma â€" a Let's Laugh storyboard based on his own original
screenplay in verse. The commission was headed by Sergei Eisenstein.
Тихонович Мигунов; February 27, 1921 â€" January 1,
2004) was a Russian artist, cartoonist, book illustrator, animation
and art director, screenwriter, inventor, educator and memoirist. He
is regarded as one of the leading innovators during the Khrushchev
Thaw who contributed significantly to both traditional and stop motion
animation.Yevgeny and his sister Nina were born in Moscow into a
family of Tikhon Grigorievich Migunov, a low-ranking official in one
of the ministries, and Maria Konstantinovna Migunova. Yevgeny was
diagnosed with cerebral palsy of his left leg and remained lame
throughout his life, hiding it and compensating by various activities.
His mother blamed obstetrician for hitting the nerve. Following her
sudden death in 1928 Tikhon Migunov married her sister, Zinaida.In
1928 Migunov graduated from the P. N. Lepeshinsky Experimental
School-Commune and spent a year at the art school. In 1939 he entered
the newly-founded Art Faculty at VGIK as one of the four students of
the first official Russian animation workshop headed by Ivan
Ivanov-Vano. Besides Ivanov-Vano his teachers were Fyodor Bogorodsky
and Fyodor Konstantinov. He had a hard time following the programme
and learned art by studying paintings by classical Russian artists. He
also learned a lot from his classmate, close friend and future
collaborator Anatoly Sazonov who came from an artistic family and
whose talent he highly regarded. Migunov gained money by drawing
miniatures for the Novodevichy Convent Museum.With the start of the
Great Patriotic War in 1941 he joined the volunteer corps of the 38th
rifle regiment of the 13th Rostokino division along with the fellow
students, hiding his disability. He was awarded the 2nd Class Order of
the Patriotic War in 1987. In Autumn they returned to VGIK, but with
the start of the Battle of Moscow it was evacuated to Alma-Ata along
with Mosfilm and Lenfilm. They continued the studies, conducted art
exhibitions and developed cartoons. In 1943 Migunov defended his
diploma â€" a Let's Laugh storyboard based on his own original
screenplay in verse. The commission was headed by Sergei Eisenstein.
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