This portfolio is designed to engage a B2B audience, specifically musicians.
My name is Polina,
and I specialize in producing 2D animated music videos.
I am looking for musicians who might be interested in my services as an animation director.
I’m interested in exploring the boundaries of what’s possible in the art of animation. That’s why I don’t just use digital techniques — I combine them with watercolor, animate on tracing paper.
I see a direct connection between personal stories and the ways they are told: the uniqueness of the visuals should reveal the uniqueness of the story.
Sequence from «осторожно двери закрываются», which was made on tracing paper
Sequence from «Сад», which was made using mixed media: watercolor, tracing paper, digital
My latest work
is a music video for the song «осторожно двери закрываются».
It’s the story of a girl in a never-ending quest to capture an illusion.
The song itself attempts to convey the feeling of being unable to get through to another person:
Радость моя
Дальний свет
Не донесла, расплескала
Как же ты там
Без меня теперь
В середине грозы
The reverse playback of the melody symbolizes both this feeling and the movement of an accelerating train.
Stages of music video production: initial sketches
Based on the overall mood and lyrics of the song, both the technique
and the character design were chosen: lightness, an illusory quality, a slight trembling.
Initial character design
Tracing paper itself is a fragial material, scanning each frame makes it more trembling
A music video for «Сад»
captures a feeling of reminicing about things that never happened.
The song is telling a story from POV of a guy, that never got together with the girl he wanted. The metaphor of a garden represents this lost opportunity.
Я так и не смог пробраться в твой
Твой зелёный сад
Где тень мечты былой
Цветёт не для меня
To convey this feeling of reminicing, the music video’s narrative was made repetitive: the main character is walking around, fantasizing about «what could’ve been», over and over again.
