Ukrainian animation

[2] Shortly after, in 1927, Vyacheslav Lewandowski[3] beginning his animation career in Odesa, created the silent film puppet cartoon "Chaff Goby (Shazka o solomennon bychke or Solomennyi Biychok)"[4] also translated "The Tale of the Straw Bull",[5][6][7][1] based on the Ukrainian folk tale, Straw Bull, and story by Oleksandr Oles.

They still amaze us with their expressiveness and filigree, and how they perfectly reproduce the illusion of movement.Vyacheslav Lewandowski continued his career in Kyiv, with The Tale about the Squirrel Hostess and the Mouse Villain (Shazka o belle khoziaushke I myshke zlodeike) in 1928.

[8] The All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration, parent entity of Lewandowski's animation studio, was closed in the early 30's with many of its leaders imprisoned or executed to suppress a Ukrainian national revival in the 1930s.

[10] Levandovsky was working on one of the first Ukrainian animation films with sound, Tuk-Tuk i yego priyatel Zhuk (translated either Tuk-Tuk and his friend Zhuk or Knok-Knok and his friend Beatle) in 1932 (The United States' Walt Disney Company had released its first animation with synchronized sound, Steamboat Willie, four years earlier in 1928).

[4] The cartoon tells the story of Pepper, a magazine employee who is approached by animals suffering from poachers who also pollute the forest and river.

[25][26] Although the studio that created Adventures of Pepper, Kievnauchfilm, was founded in 1941 to produce popular science films,[27] its entry into animation would become what it was best known for.

The success of the resulting film, now reimagined as a cartoon by Volodymyr Dakhno, kickstarted the Cossacks animation franchise for Kievnauchfilm, and for Ukraine.

Volodymyr Dakhno drew a long stick for me and said that it was the cossack Grai, the big circle was the strongman Tur, the small one was the agile Oko.

[30][31] Natalie Kononenko wrote:"They not only criticized capitalism, but also depicted women as sexless and self-sacrificing, and urged cooperation, neighborliness, and non-violence.

[7][35] Key traits of Ukrainian-style animation were "vivid language, a connection with literature, pictorial art and folklore.

In 1968, Kyivnaukfilm created a puppet animation of the Ukrainian folk tale, Ivasyk-Telesyk directed by Leonid Zarubin and written by Yukhym Chepovetskyi.

[44] In 1981, based on the children's novel by Lewis Carroll, the cartoon Alice in Wonderland was released by Kyivnaukfilm in three parts on Ukrainian television.

[47][48][49][50] Kyiv's Kievnauchfilm studio in 1984 shot the cartoon How Petryk Pyatochkin Counted Little Elephants (Yak Petryk Pyatochkin slonykiv rakhuvav, Ukrainian: Як Петрик П'яточкин слоників рахував, Russian: Как Петя Пяточкин слоников считал), written by the character-children's writer Natalia Guzeeva.

[55][56] In 1989, Alla Hrachova directed a Kyivnaukfilm cartoon animation of the Ukrainian folk tale, Ivasyk-Telesyk, with cinematography by Anatoliy Havrylov.

[59][4] In 1996, Ukranimafilm released the 19 minute animation, Viy, bassed on the novel by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Leonid Zarubin and Alla Grachyova with cinemotagraphy by Anatoliy Havrylov, and starring Bohdan Beniuk, Natalya Sumska, and Vasyl Mazur.

[4] 2013-2014 also saw the Ukranimafilm's release of an updated series based on the folktale, Kotyhoroshko, entitled, "Adventures of Kotyhoroshka and his friends" (Ukrainian: "Пригоди Котигорошка та його друзів").

[75][76][77][78] Its films include the 2016-2018 series "Myshko and Dzvinka";[79][80] the 2021 "Come Outside, Masha",[81][82] "Tiger Is Strolling Around",[83][82] "Papier-mâché",[84][82] and the 2022 "Trouble Nubble Gum".

[88] In 2017, Kharkiv residents worked together to create a stop-motion animation called Believe in Me about a dark-skinned girl named Matilda.

The animation character Matilda dreams of becoming a pianist, like her grandfather, but her dentist parents decide that the daughter should devote herself instead to the medical profession.

Kum, with director and screenwriter Olga Zakharova, won "Awards of Excellence" at the Canada Shorts Film Festival.