I grew up in southern Russia and moved to Moscow to study Animation Direction at the University of Culture and Arts — where I had the luck of studying under Soviet animation director Vladimir Tarasov. His words stuck with me: "You have talent, but you have to work very hard."

I took that seriously. I interned at Russia's first animation studio, volunteered at the international animation festival Libélula for three years, and studied scriptwriting under Emmy-nominated Eric Shaw and storyboarding under Rustam Yunusov.

From there: six years at Luma Studio, where I grew from lead animation artist, leading a team of 20+ freelancers, to animation director, and co-wrote and co-directed the festival short "Music Book"; broadcast motion design at Transneft TV; brand work at Metre Studio (Mitsubishi, MTS, Milka); two years of motion graphics for the Satori Graphics YouTube channel; and since 2022 — independent work from Santiago, Chile, where I now live with my husband and our son. Here I finished Cinema 4D Basecamp at School of Motion, joined a video mapping and VJ workshop supported by the Chilean Ministry of Culture, and co-founded listi.cl, an AI image and video app for marketplace sellers.

I care about craft. About the kind of motion that has intention behind every frame — not just things moving, but things meaning something.

Interests: Yoga · Qigong · VJ-ing · Sketching · Collage · Travel (17 countries)