2025 was WILD!
From April to December we’ve finished 5 episodes of Thrash Patrol, roughly 40 minutes (!) of animation!
I can feel this is the biggest thing I ever did and it’s not even close!
As soon as we have English or Chinese version I will let you know.
Also there is huge body of new animation artwork I did and never published anywhere, it’s different, like really different, like really huge! I don’t know if I ever display it online but if I do I will definitely let you know!
Thrash Patrol is ready to win the world!
Okay, it was unavoidable! Me and Rokoteska started working on new animated series. Long overdue if you ask me.
Thrash Patrol is working title.
BIG DAY!
Molecule art space launched!
Gym for a soul as we call it!
Good news:
It’s offline, it’s what planet needs, very big people
are already interested and most important part: it totally works!
All our concepts are working, all we worked so hard for past few years! Endless brainstorming was not in vain.
(kinda) Bad news:
Most of my new stuff (including ton of work already finished) will only be displayed offline. At least for now.
Also, I’m getting back to Unity, as it turned out for interactive stuff Unity is better than ever. Exciting times!!!
Lynch died today. His death will not affect my work, but his life certainly did! Thanks man, for everything!
Yesterday Water Buffalo finally dropped, you know if you know!
Yesterday Katya got accepted to Russia’s Writes Union!
We’re planning to open new Molecule Feb 14th, but let’s just hold champagne on the ice for now.
Let’s keep momentum going!
Покойся с миром, ХМТ
We’re opening new kind of gallery space, think of it as a gym for the soul! Ambitious, yes, but hey?!
Countdown started!
Meanwhile, my Open studio idea starts to take shape, as well as LDR-kind-of-series made by kids. Season 1 is already in the works!
We took part in Russian Creative Forum, governor was really impressed by our interactive installation (codename:tetris), this was the first field test for our interactive stuff. Come to think of it, it was risky as hell, thankfully it didn’t occur to me before))
Grand collab with Grodekov museum is on the way!
Molecule is on it’s way to major transformation, starting with small stuff, new logo!
Also do check our new 24 reel!
Some rather confusing interactions with local government, radio silence from Khabarovsk Music Theatre, budget cut on what appeared to be gig for wealthy local business …
but
very promising future with Gradekov museum, my cat got 1KK+ views on instagram, AMAZING trip to Beijing, best concert we ever saw live thanks to The Vaccines, visiting mind blowing 798 art district (ok now I know ton more about art galleries and art clusters), visiting amazing Parkview Green!
And something very new and very big is cooking right under your noses, stay tuned!
Couple of weeks ago our 2024 reel was premiered at regional Creative Industries Summit, yesterday our collaboration with Tanya was premiered at official culture’s workers celebration ceremony, along with shorten version of our Neo Classic concert. Got called out from the stage by name, pretty awesome!!!
This bit is for Russian crowd only (text play telegram sticker pack):
А еще вчера мы выпустили набор стикеров для Телеги, назвали МУДУРОСТИ
По ссылке видео и можно установить сам набор. Пожалуйста пользуйтесь, делитесь!
Remember when I told you this project for local Music Theatre is rather small?… BOY WAS I WRONG!
So we went to check premiere of the concert we worked on and … I mean … for the first time in almost 20 years of work I truly felt it, like deep inside!
Second project for the Music Theatre is already in the works, can’t wait to see it live and can’t wait for the next one! This is rare type of commercial work I really enjoy!
Doesn’t mean there will be no personal work, here is the new one: CANDLE
Hard to believe, but I’m slowly getting back to commercial work, this time in collaboration with my favourite painter, working for our local Music Theatre. Top 5 in Russia, mind you )) Relatively small but exciting project, we’ll see where it takes us. This is one of those collaborations I would really like to work long term, because when our business launches full scale, this is the only other type of commercial work I’m comfortable doing and it is necessary part of balancing process.
Business, huh? Yep! In the works. Parallel with art, parallel with commercial work, but everything of course is interconnected.
Got the flu. Annoying but rather small fish in our sea. Had to move dentist appointment. Bummer, but I’ll live )
Oh, here is new quicky for you: SMILE
My dental adventure went really well considering one of my teeth merged with the bone. To be continued …
2024 so far still feels strange, but really promising! Clearer.
This part is for Russian speaking crowd: Наконец-то урвал момент и запилил из своих дебильных фраз про зверей не менее дебильный набор стикеров для Телеги. Брать тут, называется:
Let’s start 24 with new work: Kiss OF Mindreader 2
24 feels different, it’s like there is ton of new info downloading in your head and you can’t make sense of it. Let’s give it some time!
Going to start my new dental adventure today, not very exciting but it has to be done.
23 was interesting … never did so much, never showcased so little!
The best part is: I know myself a bit better now, it helps to live life properly.
Happy new year, enjoy life and create instead of destroying, this is what you’re here for!
Twin Peaks ROCKS!
We didn’t go to Prosvet after all, decided not to work with government just yet, but will probably try ourselves in business instead. Making some steps towards this direction.
Processing is such a darling, interactive art is my new passion!
Dragon’s Dogma turned out to be great! Enjoying it a lot!
After couple of years on the shelf my idea about clothes killing people finally made it to the film, please welcome: YELLOW
My god, where to start?
Cursor is briefly back in new quickie, called KNIVES
New video is up, called LUJI
Ok so Prosvet happened. 15k people in Khabarovsk, old airport terminal in 2 evenings? That’s insane! So happy we made it there, was worth all the trouble.
Went to Komsomolsk for 3 days for some team building, also to close one expo and open up another one, both in Metamorphose, cool local modern art gallery. Featured on local tv as well! Nice city, very cute, something I did not expect. Also a bit colder than Khabarovsk, although it’s so snowy back home it’s almost hard to believe!
Automatic pet feeder I made in Arduino worked really well, although it’s already broken, hacked by cats.
Managed to fall in love and back with Dark Souls. Can totally see where the cult status came from.
We finally figured out how to properly photoshoot paintings. Yay!!
Right now we’re gearing up for Prosvet in Perm, in December. Going to be huge!!
Next Monday going to check abandoned factory that can potentially be either our next exhibition venue or headquarters. Either way that’d be really great!
Yet again the best feature we ever had happened thanks to local TV, quality of the craft and passion for the subject is second to none! Thank you guys, you are objectively the best!
Paris feature didn’t work out, good thing we never sent real paintings there. It’s not like they’d appreciate it anyway. As it often happens, Paris was immediately replaced with something even better, Просвет festival, massive futuristic showcase of art and technology! First it will take place in our city in 2 days, and later this year in Perm, Russia. Both fusion of paintings with motion graphics and our new interactive stuff.
This gif is perfect for my news update:
As you can see I did play a bit with OpenCV, crazy powerful thing, will definitely use it in our interactive projects.
As you can also see there are some holes on my face, 10 in total. Went ahead and surgically removed some stuff that bothered me for ages. Now I’m not allowed to go outside for a few days, but it was worth it and it’s already healed a lot. Yeah, looked much scarier at first!
Commercial project for a friend is almost over, didn’t go very well, good reminder of why I must stay away from commercial work.
Awakers Vol2 Trailer is out!!! Hopefully it’s up to the book’s standards.
Have to go back to SOME commercial work, but it’s due to dear friend’s request so it’s the right thing to do. Will only take 2 weeks so should be doable.
Planning 3 more offline exhibitions this year with Molecule, and I really want to look deeper into OpenCV library, that’d be really useful for us in near future, but can’t really promise myself that now, trying to avoid unnecessary overloads.