Vyacheslav Levandovskiy

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1897-02-24

Deathday 1962-04-18 (65 years old)

Place of Birth Odessa, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]

Also Known As Вячеслав Вячеславович Левандовский, Вячеслав Левандовский, В'ячеслав Левандовський , В'ячеслав В'ячеславович Левандовський, Viacheslav Levandovskyi, В. Левандовский

Vyacheslav Levandovskiy

Biography

Ukrainian and Russian cartoonist and illustrator, one of the founders of Ukrainian animation. Levandovskiy invented and put into production the "automatic pencil" - a device for controlling the frame-by-frame movement of a doll in space. For the first time in Soviet animation, Levandovsky used the so-called "éclair" method, when actors playing human characters are filmed at a normal speed - 24 frames per second, and then the animator, superimposing the captured film frames under his drawings, checks the movement of his animated character in time, of course, making an artistic selection, sharpening the movement. In addition, Levandovsky himself made a movie camera - all parts, except for optics, were made of wood of different species.

Known For

Director

Writer

1927
Ukrainization

as Writer

Art

1937
The Fox and the Grapes

as Art Direction

1927
Ukrainization

as Art Direction

1927

Visual Effects

1937
1936

Camera

1927
A Tale of Little Straw Bull

as Director of Photography