Marina Voskanyants
- Animation Department
Marina Konstantinovna Voskanyants is a Soviet, Russian animator. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2013). From 1945 to 1951 she studied in the art studio of the Moscow Central Palace of Pioneers. In 1952 she received the first prize (awarded the gold medal by the President of India) for participating in the international exhibition of children's drawings in Delhi. In 1956-1958 she studied at the courses of animated artists at Soyuzmultfilm, where she studied with Fyodor Khitruk, Roman Davydov, Lev Milchin. From 1959 to 1991 - one of the leading animators at the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio. For 32 years of work at Soyuzmultfilm, Voskanyants was invited to work on her films almost by all the classics of the Golden Age of the Soviet animation - Lev Atamanov, Vladimir Polkovnikov, Roman Kachanov, Eduard Nazarov and many others. For a greater understanding of the aesthetics of human movement in her work as an animator, Marina studied in the Studio of Harmonic Gymnastics of L. Alekseeva from 1955, and from 1980 she herself taught harmonic gymnastics at the Moscow House of Scientists. Having achieved high mastery in the artistic representation of dance scenes, she created them for many animated films. In the 1990s, as an animator, she collaborated with the studios "Christmas Films", "BALL", "Argus". She taught and lectured at VGIK, was engaged in the promotion of painting and drawing.