Portrait of Viktor Omelchenko — courtesy of the web-site kino-teatr.ru (accessed: July 16, 2019).
Viktor Omelchenko
Viktor Omelchenko (Виктор Омельченко) is a Russian painter, animator and director of Ukrainian origin. He studied at the Moscow art school “In the memory of 1905” (1969) and at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, Faculty of Movie Direction. From 1969 he worked at the TV Studio Ekran (founded in 1968), specialising in production of TV films and animations, especially for children and youth. He worked for the Очевидное-невероятное [Obvious and Unbelievable], popular science program; contributed to the Спокойно ночи, малыши! [Good Night, Little Ones] program (the most popular program for children including animations).
Sources:
Omelchenko, Viktor. “Искусство. Записки художника” [Art. Notes of an Artist], Smena 10 (2013), pp. 66-80.
Profile at animator.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Profile at kino-teatr.ru (accessed July 16, 2019)
Bio prepared by Hanna Paulouskaya, University of Warsaw, hannapa@al.uw.edu.pl
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