Oleh Ridzel

2D & 3D character animator

Warsaw, Poland
My name is Oleh Ridzel. I was born in Chernihiv, Ukrainian. As a character animator, I have a high level of skills.
In 1993, I started my career as an animator in the Spirou & Fantasio series (Aratos studio and Dupuis publishing house), from 2001 I worked as a character animator in the series Mr. Bean, Mama Moo, Pettson and Findus (Baetarts Studio, Budapest).
In 2009, I started working as a 3D character animator, storyboard artist in the Orka Film postproduction studios, Studio Kadr.
From 2011 to 2021 I was permanently associated with Platige Image. As a character animator, storyboard artist and lead animator, I took part in the production of films for well-known game developers:
Rainbow Six Extraction (Ubisoft)
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War & Warzone (Activision)
Love, Death and Robots (Fish Night - Netflix)
The Witcher (Netflix I and II episode)
The Village (Capcom Asia)
Total War: WARHAMMER III
Hyper Scape (Ubisoft Montréal)
And in many other world-famous film titles.
In 2017 I worked as a Cinematic animator at CD Projekt Red, I did some animations for the GWENT game
Now I'm working as a Lead animator at Artifex Mundi.

Work Experience

Artifex Mundi

Lead animator

May 2021 - Katowice, Poland

Platige Image

3D Character animator

2017 - 2021 Warsaw, Poland

CD Projekt RED

Senior 3D animator

January 2017 - Warsaw, Poland

Platige Image

storyboard artist, senior 2D & 3D character animator

October 2011 - December 2016 Poland

Studio KADR

3D character animator

work on the film "SUICIDE ROOM" directed by Jan Komasa
http://www.salasamobojcow.com.pl/
June 2010 - October 2010 Poland

ORKA FILM

2D & 3D animator

2009 - 2011 Poland

Studio BAESTARTS

2D lider animator

2003 - 2011 Hungary

VARGA Studio

2D lider animator

2001 - 2003 Hungary

KAMELEON STUDIO

Art Director

1996 - 1998 Poland

Aratos Studio

2D animator

1992 - 1996 Poland

Education

Colege Of Art, Kiev, Ukraine

Industrial design

1988 - 1991 Ukraine

UkrAnimaFilm

Classical Animation, Animator 2D

1991 - 1993 Kyiv, Ukraine

Skills

Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Autodesk Maya 3D, MOHO/Anime Studio Pro, Toonboom Storyboard Pro, TvPaint,