Lev Polyakov - Artist & Animator

Trip to Los Angeles

September 3, 2006 4:37 pm

AWN interview

July 7, 2006 2:22 pm

Recently I just came back from a fanastic trip to Annecy, and now to make for more good news, I got interviewed by AWN:

The Animated Winners: Indie Short Filmmakers Speak

New Film. New Beginning.

March 29, 2006 2:38 pm
morning-hog.jpg

Going to college really allowed me to improve my skills, as well as my production process. My new film “Morning, Day, Evening, Night, and Morning Again” was done in just three months, and I don’t think I was ever deprived of so much sleep as I was while finishing it. However it was all worth it, now that it is finished and is most definetely superior to any film I did before. But now I see that I can do a film 5 times better than this finished one. I have just finished storyboarding for my top secret 5th Film, and I see that everything including story is a long mile away from when I first started animation. Wish me luck.

Looks like those work nights spent at the morgue really paid off…

January 18, 2006 1:29 am

First, I want to wish a happy new year too all. And secondly decree that I have updated the sketches section which now features most of my new drawings that I have been doing all this time, including lots of hands and feet from the mourge that I have visited part time on the weekends. More of my bigger, non- sketchbook drawings will be coming up. Also, I have another new section called …, where I upload random doodles of pigs and other oddities from my sketchbook and give each one a name (from left to right). And last but hopefully not least, my new film is getting completed but there is still some more shading and music to be done.
hands drawing

The winner is Piper!

September 30, 2005 10:22 pm

I am still in shock over the result, but it is so that my 3rd animated film “Piper the goat” won the High School/Secondary School category in the Ottawa International Animation Festival competition. This is the first time that the Ottawa Animation Festival merged with it’s Student Animation Festival into one grand safari of a festival, and I am honored to have been part of that experience. I want to thank my mom, dad, grandmother, and uncle for encouraging me to make this film with all of my strength. But now that months have gone by after finishing “Piper”, and I am doing backgrounds for my mysterious top secret 4th film. I hope to make my family more proud with this new film, and I know that I am bringing something very special to life at this moment. It has been a pleasure to meet all you wonderful people at the Festival, and hope to meet you in the future.

And to end, here is a festival quote…

“The energy and bizarre humour of this high school student film suggests an original talent with great promise.”
OIAF jury

“The promise will be kept”
Lev Polyakov