DASHKA DEMENTEVA
animator, artist, director, supervisor of animation in Tallinn
As an animator with 8 years of experience, I have worked on various creative and commercial projects, showcasing my skills as an animator, artist and director. As befits a good animator, I am a style chameleon, adapting to different styles and techniques depending on the project.

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LANGUAGE
Russian (native)
English (C1)
Estonian (B2)

SKILLS AND SOFTWARE
2D digital animation (After Effects, Toonboom, Photoshop, Moho, Procreate, Spine)
Stopmotion animation (Dragonframe)
Motion design (After Effects, Photoshop)
Basic knowledge of Blender and Maya

EDUCATION
2020-2023 Eesti Kunstiakadeemia (animation)
2018 Petersburg Animation Studio (3D animation)
2015-2017 School-studio of animated films SHAR (animation)
2011-2015 Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts (fine arts)

FILMOGRAPHY
2023 PIANO IN THE BUSHES
2023 A STORY ABOUT A BEAR, A MONKEY AND A CATARPILLAR

PUBLICATIONS
2021 October TEATR MUUSIKA KINO
"Absurd humour in Estonian animation"

EXIBITIONS
2021 "Mom, I want to be an animator", Tallinn, VENT SPACE (part of exibition)
2023 "EKA avatud uksed", Tallinn, Estonian Academy of arts (Puppet film exibition)

ANIMATION EXPERIENCE
2023-2024 ALL FOR ONE studio (animator)

2022-2023 TED-ed episodes
"The dark history of zombies" (animator)
"Game of pops" (animator)

2016-2023 MASTERFILM Studio
"Pat-a-cacke" (series animator, director, supervisor)
"Oh, noooo" (animator)

2017-2022 SOJUZMULTFILM Studio:
"Petr-Baas" (animator, artist's assistant)
"Mery grandmas!" (animator)
"New prostokvashino" (series animator)
"Petja and Volk" (series animator)

2016-2021 SHAR Studio:
"City goat" (animator)
"Music of summer night" (animator)
"Near the mountain, on the mountain, from the mountain" (animator, clean up artist, ink and paint)

2020 ANIMOS Studio
"Mother's helper" (animator)

2020 PETERBURG Studio
"Shkafovs" (animator, layout artist)

2023 KELLER Theatre, Tallinn
"Mets" (animator, AI artist)

2023 FROTO NJANJA
Commercial (2D animator)

2023 Estonian national museum, Tartu
"Journey in Juri Lotman's semiosphere" (animator for the exibition)

2022 ERASMUS educational interactive film
"Arnold" (animator)

2022 BUNGLY BOO!
Commercial (additional 2D animator)

2021 LAULUPEOMUUSEUM, Tallinn
(animator for the museum)

2021 MÓKUSUGRÁS
Booktrailer (animator)

2021 CHERNOGOLOVKA
Commercial (motion designer)

2019-2020 VTB
Animated postcards (motion designer)

2020 FRANCE AIRLINES
Commercial (additional 2D Animator)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021-2023 School-studio SHAR (Caricature, After-effects, Sketching, Puppet making, animation consultations)
2016-2022 MACSATICS camp (animation, film production design)
2016-2020 ZPSH winter school (Caricature, Animation history,)
2018-2019 MÄRCHENKOFFERe.V. camp (animation)
2015-2017 PUNCTUM culture center (Sketching)
dashka.animation@gmail.com
Tallinn, Estonia
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