The domestic animated series "Masha and the Bear" managed to win the hearts of TV viewers. The idea of its creation came to Oleg Kuzovkov's head back in 1996. The prototype of Masha was a little girl vacationing on the Crimean coast.
"Masha and the Bear" is a children's animated series about the adventures of the forest Bear and the girl Masha. The cartoon uses three-dimensional graphics, which the authors of the cartoon create using Autodesk Maya. The script of each episode of the cartoon not only allows you to laugh at the adventures of the heroes, but also contains an instructive component.
History of creation
The idea of creating the cartoon belongs to the animator Oleg Kuzovkov. Oleg is not only the author of the idea, but also a screenwriter and one of the producers of the project. In Masha and the Medved, Oleg managed to bring his twenty years of experience working with animation to life.
According to Oleg himself, the idea of the cartoon came to him during a vacation in the Crimea. On one of the Crimean beaches, he noticed a small but very lively girl. She did not give rest to any of the adults and thanks to this she became the prototype of the girl Masha. The story took place back in 1996 - since then Oleg began to nurture the idea of a cartoon. The idea was brought to life only in 2007. Oleg gathered a group of like-minded people, wrote a pilot episode script and started looking for an investor.
Beginning of work
The search for an investor was crowned with success, and soon a group of animators began to work on the debut episode of the animated film "The First Meeting". The studio "Animaccord" worked on its creation together with the Asymmetric VFX Studio group. Annimacord was responsible for character development and Asymmetric VFX Studio for modeling, rendering and animation. The sketches of the main characters were developed by Oleg himself back in 1996, when he met the prototype of Masha. According to him, it took only two hours to create the sketches.
It took eight months to create the cartoon's debut episode - it is always difficult to take the first steps. Over time, gaining experience, "Animaccord" reduced the time to create the series to four months. As the creators of "Masha and the Bear" say themselves, the most difficult thing is to fully work out the comic component of the cartoon. Most of the time is spent not on character animation or creating special effects, but on coming up with jokes.
"Animaccord" rises to its feet
The second episode of the animated film "Animaccord" was created jointly with the studio "Airplane". Later, "Animaccord" was already independently working on "Masha and the Bear". The studio employs three compositors, five renderers, five artists, and a dozen animators. A separate person is working on the animation of the snow and water. The Bear's fur coat is imitated using a special program developed by one of the studio's employees.
