Roman Dzvonovskyi is 34 years old, 8 of them he works with animation, using a complex technique of stop-motion animation.
Roman Dzvonovskyi comes from Ivano-Frankivsk region. He is a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic National University. He received a master's degree in graphic design.
"Stop-motion is not a sprint, it's a marathon"
- Please, tell us about your job. What does it look like? What are the main points?
- This is a very difficult job. Stop-motion is not a sprint, it is a marathon. That's why you can never hurry here. You must first think through everything. Otherwise, you’ll get temporary and financial failures. It all starts when you need to come up with or adapt the client's idea to a scenario. Next - make a storyboard, that is, draw scenes. This helps both the animator and the client to roughly understand what he can get. Then from this storyboard I form an animatic - the first draft of the animation. It is something like a kind of comics. Next I draw a concept: characters, environment, various details. Then the relevant department makes decorations and dolls. Later costumes are sewn and decorations are glued. But we do not have so many specialized people. At the beginning, I did most of it alone. Now, with the right funding, I'm trying to attract contractors.
Filming begins only when all this is done and all the moments are approved. We expose light, cameras and a film frame. You can shoot up to three seconds of smooth animation a day if you do 24 frames per second. That is, to make a 30-second video with the characters, in general, it takes about from one and a half to two months. Stop-motion is a very painstaking work.
