Sergey Merinov was born in September 1966. In Russia and abroad, the director is famous for his excellent ability to create cartoons and paint superbly. You can learn about Merinov’s biography and his creative activity from this article.
Biography and creative activities
After graduating from school, Sergey Merinov entered the art college of craft, which he graduated in 1989. After graduation, Sergey gained the profession of a designer artist, which played a huge role in his life. After a while, the future director graduated from the courses at the Pilot movie studio, where he took lessons from animator-artists. Merinov took an active part in studio projects. He worked on intermediate animations in cartoons, combining the lesson with artistic production and dealing with a sequence of drawings responsible for the animated plot. In addition, Merinov took an active part in creating animated videos and all kinds of commercials. After a while, Sergey already collaborated with Channel One and created the animated film “The Tale of Envy” for him. Then, for the NTV channel, he developed a cartoon design for the project called “Russian Nails”. Once Sergey managed to create an amazing video game called "Magic Dream", where Merin himself acted as director, animator, director and artist.
Career
In the period from 1998 to 2002. Sergey Merinov worked as a storyboarder at Pilot, creating a unique image of a multi-part project called Mike, Lu and Og. A year later, he graduated from directing courses, receiving the education of director of episodic animation. The first work in the guise of a professional director took place with Sergei in 1997 during the creation of the animated film "New Russian Animals". Then he created a line of cartoons called “The Mountain of Gems”, “Kuygorog”, “The Cockerel and the Cat” and other paintings. In addition, Merinov managed to create a unique splash of plasticine for the serial cartoon. After some time, commercials, video clips and intros for television projects, for example, such as Multi-Russia, appear in his works.
Sergey Merinov now
Since 2003, Sergey has been engaged in pedagogy, leads courses in artistic animators. In addition, Merinov is a member of the Council of Artists in the project "Mountain of Gems" and the art director of the association "Plasticine". During his work, Sergei became president of the AACR. The main direction of the director Sergei Merinov is animation from plasticine, however, there are exceptions among his works.