Introducing the children of the older group to the work of Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, a Soviet animator, director, artist and animator.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotenochkin,
Vyacheslav_Mikhailovich
Program content:
Animation technology is a modern effective technology that promotes the rational organization of the educational process, the use of a person-oriented approach, the active use of technical teaching aids, the intellectual development of the child and the disclosure of his creative abilities.
Animation in the educational process is a new universal, multifaceted way of child development in the modern visual and information-rich world.
“Animation”, or, as we more often call it, “cartooning” is an extraordinary art that allows you to solve a whole range of pedagogical problems that meet the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard for preschool education.
Goals and objectives:
To develop the ability to reflect in speech the emotional (visual and audio) perception of animated films.
To educate an attentive viewer: the ability to see, hear, empathize, admire, rejoice, be surprised.
To develop the ability to convey through plasticity and facial expressions the features of movement and character of various characters seen on the screen and created by the children themselves.
Cultivate respect for each other’s work and friendliness when composing common compositions.
Cultivate a sense of responsibility for a common cause, interest in fine and animation arts.
Develop artistic and acting abilities.
Develop speech and musical ear.
Develop a sense of color, rhythm, dynamics in drawing.
Develop spatial thinking, imagination, fine motor skills.
Develop the ability to work in a team, negotiate with each other when performing tasks that require joint action.
Cultivate emotional responsiveness to literary text and music.
Equipment:
Film projector, screen. Presentation. Cartoon “Frog Traveler”, “Well, Just Wait!” Bunny costume. Wolf costume.
For educational drawing activities, a variety of art materials are used: paper of different formats, squirrel and bristle brushes, gouache, watercolor, ink, felt-tip pens, graphite and wax pencils, etc., everything that is freely available to children.
Progress of the lesson:
(teacher)
Guys, which of you likes watching cartoons?
Do you think it’s difficult to create a cartoon?
What is needed for this?
Today we will introduce you to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotyonochkin, a director, artist, and animator. Creator of cartoons for children.
This is the legendary director of Soyuzmultfilm Vyacheslav Kotenochkin. Thanks to him, the heroes of “The Scarlet Flower”, “The Golden Antelope”, “The Frog the Traveler” and many others came to life on the screen. Looking at Kotenochkin’s filmography, you are amazed at how much this man managed to do! And how many smiles he gave to several generations of viewers. June 20, 2017 marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of animator and director Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotenochkin. He is the author of the cult animated series about the Wolf and the Hare “Well, wait a minute!”, which was included in the top five best Soviet and Russian films.
He had many government awards and titles, but most of all he was proud of the Order of the Smile, which Polish children presented to him in the late 1980s.
Oh! Who came to us? Yes, this is the hare from the cartoon! Look how funny he is!
Hello guys, I came to you straight from a cartoon created by Vyacheslav Katyonochkin. Here I am, how wonderful I am, they first drew me in different movements, and then the image was shot on camera. If you quickly change the image of one character's drawing using the camera, it seems that he is moving.
This is how our cartoon characters come to life. But this is a very difficult process. Characters need to be drawn in different movements, and then choose the appropriate facial expression or muzzle for them. Everything needs to be appropriate: the setting, where the heroes are, and of course, the heroes’ clothing should be appropriate for the weather and the necessary occasion.
Guys, tell me which cartoon am I from? (Wait for it)
Who am I running away from all the time, according to the cartoon script? (From the wolf).
Let us also play an interesting game.
Objectives: To develop in children the ability to perform movements on a signal, to practice running, jumping on both legs, squatting, and catching.
Description: One of the players is assigned to be a wolf, the rest portray hares. At the beginning of the game, the hares stand in their places. The wolf is at the opposite end - in the ravine. The teacher says: “The bunnies jump, hop - hop - hop, onto the green meadow. They nibble the grass and listen to see if a wolf is coming.” The hares jump out and run away. They jump on two legs, sit down, nibble the grass and look around in search of the wolf. The teacher says the word “Wolf”, the wolf comes out of the ravine and runs after the hares, trying to catch and touch them. The hares each run away to their own place, where the wolf can no longer overtake them. The wolf takes the caught hares to his ravine. After the wolf catches 2-3 hares, another wolf is chosen.
Rules: Hares run out at the words - hares gallop. You can return to your place only after the word “Wolf!”
The game is played 2-3 times.
How great we played together, and now I invite you to watch a presentation about my beloved Vyacheslav Kotenochkin. You will understand what a talented animator he is.
https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://nsportal.ru/sites/default/files/2012/07/02/kotenochkin.ppt
And then we will watch my favorite cartoons: “The Frog Traveler”
http://mults.info/mults/?id=972
And “Well, just wait!” issue No. 1
http://nu-pogodi-online.su
Did you guys like the cartoons? These are my favorite ones. True, there are many more episodes in “Well, wait a minute,” but I’m giving you homework, watch them yourself, at home.
And we are returning to the group. We have another interesting activity ahead of us. I invite you to the tables where various art supplies are set. Choose what you need for drawing. Draw the character that you liked the most. I will be very pleased if you give me your drawings in memory of our meeting.
After watching cartoons, children are invited to sketch their favorite characters.
We will play as cartoonists and create our own inimitable image of a fairy-tale hero.
Conclusion: Thus, animation, as a means of all-round development of a child, has a socially significant character. The specificity of this activity involves the active co-creation of an adult and a child, who come together in the pursuit of a common goal - the implementation of a creative plan, the creation of a product made according to the criteria of goodness and beauty and receiving an emotional response from the audience.
Developed by: teachers of group No. 1 Varfolomeeva Maria Alekseevna and
Rodionova Natalia Mikhailovna.
The most beloved of all Soviet cartoons about a brave hare and a stupid wolf. The wolf and the hare have become one of the most popular cartoon characters all over the world, and the series “Well, wait a minute!” swept triumphantly around the world. The history of the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” began back in 1969, filming continued until 1986, 18 episodes were filmed. And in 2005, the premiere of the 19th issue took place, under the direction of Alexey Kotyonochkin, the son of Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin, who began the history of the cartoon. Later the 20th issue was published. In September 2005, a costume parade was held in Moscow in honor of the revival of the animated series “Well, wait a minute!” Unfortunately, according to A. Kotenochkin, the story about the wolf and the hare ended on the 20th issue, and if the cartoon is released again, it will be a different story...
The fate of the cartoon, like everything ingenious, did not begin easily.
One by one, the directors refused the project, only director Sokolsky agreed, but this cartoon was not lucky enough to see the light of day. After the first sketches and samples, Sokolsky was strongly recommended to change the images of the hare and wolf to kinder and more soulful ones, but after criticism, Sokolsky refused from alterations and further work.
It would seem that nothing can save the cartoon from impending death, but the brilliant director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin gets involved in the work.
He invites screenwriters Kurlyandsky, Hight and Kandel to participate in the creation of the cartoon. And the work began!!! It's boiling! Kotenochkin draws the wolf from himself, invites Vysotsky to do the voice acting, but... Vysotsky is “outside the law” and the wolf begins to speak in the voice of Anatoly Papanov, as some believe, as compensation for Vysotsky, his song “Vertical” is included in the first cartoon. Without any tests, Klara Rumyanova was cast for the role of the Hare, and in 1969 the first issue of the cartoon was released.
New episodes of the animated series “Well, wait a minute!” appeared on Soviet television screens almost every year for seventeen years old. Over the years, the epithet “folk” has been firmly attached to the animated series. V. Kotenochkin has repeatedly said that the series was continued precisely at the insistent requests of viewers, both children and adults: when, after 1973, he announced the completion of the fourth and last series, Soyuzmultfilm was overwhelmed with bags of letters with requests and options for continuation.
The cartoon continued, but not for long. Felix Kandel - leaves for Israel, the cartoon is closed. Kandel will be removed from the credits, and even later, replaced with the surname “Kamov”. Time passes, Papanov comes to the Kremlin to receive a state award, the Kremlin is interested in the fate of the cartoon and Podgorny gives the go-ahead for continuation, so the cartoon receives a second, or rather third birth and is published until 1986, with a total of 16 episodes.
In 1993, after Papanov’s death, the 17th and 18th issues of the animated series were released. In the voice acting of the Wolf, fragments of previous episodes, working notes, jokes told during breaks were used... Vyacheslav Kotenochkin died in 2000, Klara Rumyanova died in 2004. The authors of “Well, wait a minute!” left behind their era.
However, the story of the cartoon ended in 2006, having outlived its creators. The premiere of the 19th and 20th episodes of the cartoon took place in Minsk at the VIII international festival of children's and youth films "Listopadik". They were filmed by the son of the famous director Alexey Kotenochkin.
Despite his advanced age, “Well, just wait!” still remains one of the best cartoons in Russian animation. From the very beginning, the adventures of the Wolf and the Hare were so loved by children and adults that instead of one planned film, its authors - screenwriters Felix Kamov, Alexander Kurlyandsky and Arkady Khait, director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin and artist Svyatozar Rusakov - created 18 episodes over 26 years of collaboration!
One of the components of the success of the cartoon is the inimitable voices of artists Anatoly Papanov and Klara Rumyanova, who voiced the main characters. The famous songs of those years, heard in “Well, wait a minute!”, gained even greater popularity, and the famous composer David Tukhmanov, having learned that his melody was also heard in one of the episodes, expressed “his boundless gratitude” to director Kotenochkin.
Unfortunately, many of those who created “Well, wait a minute!” are no longer there. One after another, Anatoly Papanov, Klara Rumyanova, Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, Svyatozar Rusakov, and Arkady Khait left. Bringing your favorite characters to life seemed completely impossible. But not so long ago, two more episodes appeared - the 19th and 20th - of the famous animated series. They were filmed by the son of director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, Alexey. Script for the continuation of “Well, wait a minute!” written by Felix Kamov and Alexander Kurlyandsky, the constant author of all 20 episodes.
Alexander Efimovich himself claims that the work on “Well, wait a minute!”, although it remains a bright page in his creative biography, was never the main thing. The author of stories, plays, numerous pop miniatures, as well as the creator of the cartoons “The Return of the Prodigal Parrot”, “The Magnificent Gosha” and several dozen more, Alexander Kurlyandsky recently finished work on a new book.
“At creative meetings, children often ask: “When will the Wolf eat the Hare?”
None of the creators of “Well, wait a minute!” I didn’t think that the cartoon would become so popular,” says Alexander Efimovich. - We, the authors of the first issue - Kamov, Hight and I, I remember, were always wondering in which episode it would all end: on the third, on the fifth, on the seventh? Then Soyuzmultfilm began receiving bags of letters from children asking for a continuation. I especially remember one letter in which a child asked Kotenochkin to film “Well, wait a minute!” endlessly.
But thanks to whom or what the cartoon was such a stunning success, I cannot say even now. The characters were created by artist Svyatozar Rusakov and director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin. The merit of the screenwriters can be called the development of gags - animation tricks. It was a very difficult, but interesting job - to funny depict on the screen what we, as pop authors, had previously described in words.
"Wait for it!" became our debut in animation, and we were very worried about the quality of the future cartoon. Even after writing and handing over the script to the director, we continued to remain in the process: at the storyboard stage, and at the dubbing stage, and at the editing stage.
From the very beginning we had this rule: what was invented while working at a common table was invented by everyone. We were looking for a phrase that would not only fit the plot, but also give the viewer hope for a continuation. Various options were discussed: “Well, wait!”, “Well, wait!”... But, as far as I remember, Felix Kamov put an end to this dispute by saying: “Well, wait!”
Besides Arkady Khait and me, there was also Felix Kamov, co-author and friend of Eduard Uspensky. Once upon a time, we wrote a program together for the pop duet Alexander Livshits and Alexander Levenbuk, popular in those years, composed pop numbers, plays, musicals, radio plays...
Later, it was Eduard Uspensky who invited all of us - Hight, Kamov and me - to work at the Soyuzmultfilm studio. There they once asked: “Come up with something funny.” We sat down and the four of us came up with “Well, wait a minute!” True, we did not always work in this composition: Eduard Uspensky remained with us only at first.
How long have you been nurturing the idea for a cartoon?
Almost immediately the main idea was invented - a chase film. But who is chasing whom was decided in long disputes. We went through different characters: at first we thought of taking a fox and a rooster, then a fox and a hare, and finally settled on a wolf and a hare as the characters most familiar to our folklore. At first it was a short story for the animated series “Merry Carousel”, where the Wolf and the Hare are completely different, in a different visual manner. The management of Soyuzmultfilm liked the plot, and we were offered to write a script for a ten-minute cartoon. When we wrote it and began to offer it to directors, they all refused. One Kotenochkin said: “There is something in this!”
(Vyacheslav Kotenochkin himself spoke about how the images of the Wolf and the Hare were invented in one of his last interviews (to the SK-Novosti newspaper): “I immediately got the Hare - with blue eyes, rosy cheeks, generally very positive. And the Wolf I didn’t succeed for a long time. Then on the street I saw a guy leaning against the wall of the house. He had long black hair, a cigarette stuck to his thick lips, his belly was hanging out, and I realized that this was exactly what the Wolf must have been like.”)
At that time, there was little funny in domestic animation, and our film was filled with stunts. The klutz wolf made the audience laugh, continues Alexander Kurlyandsky. - He endlessly found himself in comical situations, and through his own fault. By the way, at creative meetings, children often wonder: “When will the Wolf eat the Hare?” For some time I tried to explain to them that the Wolf would never eat the Hare, because these are two clowns who entertain us. The cartoon Wolf, unlike a real wolf, walks on two legs, smokes, and rides a motorcycle. He's almost human, not an animal. Finally, to show children this difference, I wrote the book “Two for One, or “Well, Just Wait,” where I introduced a real wolf into the plot. It costs nothing for someone like this to devour our Hare. In the end, in the book, the “cartoon” Wolf himself saves the Hare.
You also came up with a lot of new stories related to these characters. For example, the Wolf and the Hare now have parents!
I have been nurturing the idea of the Wolf and the Hare having a family for a long time. According to the plan, the Hare's parents are positive on all sides. For the Wolf, it's the other way around. But the children of the main characters are changelings: the Wolf has a son who is an excellent student, and the Hare has a hooligan punk. Alexey Kotenochkin (son of director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin) and I are implementing this idea in the children's magazine “Well, wait a minute!”, and the kids really like it.
“After Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, remarked that he liked the cartoon, “Well, just wait!” they started working again.”
When creating new cartoon series, weren’t you afraid of comparison with the “original”?
As an author, of course, I risked my reputation and understood that the new series would be compared with the old ones. The plot of the nineteenth episode takes place on the beach. But the beach is quite modern and recognizable. With parachutes, boats, water slides... Not the same as in the very first episode. This could be a domestic resort, or the shores of Turkey, where our citizens also vacation. The viewer again meets already familiar characters - the funny Pig in the original three-piece swimsuit and the Hippopotamus, from whom the Wolf always gets the worst of it. The music written by Andrei Derzhavin (member of the Time Machine group) further emphasizes the comic nature of what is happening. We conventionally called the twentieth issue “Six hundred square meters” - everyone understands that the events take place on a summer cottage.
If we talk about the technical side, the quality of the new episodes (especially the sound) is much higher. How funny is this? In the Czech Republic, where new episodes of “Well, Just Wait!” were shown, they were awarded the Audience Award. There were prizes at other festivals as well. So I’m not the only one who thinks that the continuation of the cartoon turned out to be successful.
It’s true that “Well, just wait!” closed?
Papanov, of course, voiced the Wolf brilliantly... You probably know that even after the death of Anatoly Papanov, his voice sounded in two more episodes of “Well, wait a minute!” - by some miracle, recordings of takes and samples were preserved in the studio. But in the 19th and 20th episodes, we offered the voice of the Wolf to the artist of the Crooked Mirror theater Igor Khristenko. Nobody set him the task of parodying Papanov’s voice. He should have played Papanov. And if you look at it without prejudice, I think that Igor did a good job.
The fate of the cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” to some extent reflects what was happening in the country for several decades: one of the authors - Felix Kandel (Kamov) - was in denial for a long time in the 70s, then emigrated, which is why his last name was cut out from credits rolled, and filming of the cartoon stopped. After perestroika, the second, now deceased, co-author, Arkady Khait, emigrated to Germany. Over the past 10 years, there has been no money to shoot a sequel to the cartoon. As a result, “Well, wait a minute!”, which in Soviet times was financed by the state and loved by the Politburo, is now paid for by a well-known chain of department stores.
Not only what happened to the film, but also the film itself is characterized by the time, says Alexander Kurlyandsky, the hits of those years that we use, the location of the action, the objects that serve us to create a stunt situation... Nowadays there is no longer a “Ferris wheel” in the park, no songs by Magomayev. To some extent, this film is social and historical. It reflects that era. Just like the new episodes will reflect this time.
How have these 36 years affected you?
Setting yourself up today to come up with something funny is much more difficult than it was 30 years ago. And it’s probably even more difficult for my co-author Felix Kamov, who came from Israel; he is now doing something completely different - on my shelf there is a multi-volume history of the Jewish people, of which he is the author. But when we met, we felt young again.
Is it really true that over the past 10 years there have been no people willing to finance “Well, wait a minute!”?
Did not have. Making a cartoon is quite an expensive endeavor. This is handmade. A cartoon that consists of one part practically does not pay off. We need to create either a series or a full-length film. In addition, there was natural skepticism: “Well, just wait!” I haven’t been out for so many years, maybe I shouldn’t - what if it doesn’t work out? But now I’m calm: I saw the film and I know that it turned out well.
During the many-year break in filming the cartoon, in one of your books a second wolf was added to the famous characters. For what?
Guys often asked me at meetings: “When will the Wolf eat the Hare?” I explained that he cannot eat it, because our Wolf is not an animal, he is humanized: he walks on two legs, excuse me, smokes, buys watermelons. To show the difference, I came up with another wolf, a real one, from a fairy tale, which can actually eat a hare. And in this book, our “nice” Wolf saves the Hare from the zoological Wolf. In general, in literature, unlike cartoons, it is necessary to explain why the Wolf is chasing the Hare. And there I have a conflict - purely social: the Hare is clean, his mother is a teacher, his father is a doctor, and the Wolf is a lumpen from the gateway.
Will this become the plot of a new cartoon?
Until it doesn't. And in the future - we'll see.
The best of what you have created over these 36 years is now included in the volume from the series “Anthology of Satire and Humor of Russia in the 20th Century” (“EXMO”), the presentation of which will also take place in September. There is a Wolf and a Hare on the cover of the book, but why is there no literary record of the cartoons?
Sometimes it’s difficult for me: I’m known mainly as the author of “Well, wait a minute!” Few, for example, take the risk of staging my play or publishing an adult story. Not long ago my book “Chuki-Kuki” was published, which was well received by reviewers, but it lay there for two years - it was not published. When I brought one of my stories to Novy Mir, it caused ironic smiles there: “Kurlyandsky has come! Brought a story! Sometimes friends, writers or directors, tell a story and say: “I give it to you!” Make a cartoon out of it.” And this seems to be beneath their dignity. And they don’t understand that making an animated film is a very difficult task and requires a certain quality of convolutions. After all, there was an opportunity to order these two series from other authors, but they turned to us. Working together with the compiler of the Anthology, Yuri Kushak, on the book, I included stories, novellas, and plays in it so that it would give a more complete picture of me. Popularity of “Well, wait a minute!” good, but sometimes it even gets in the way.
The life and fate of the “Russian” DisneyPresentation prepared by:
Andreeva T.A.
head of service department
LPR State Institution “Central District Library”
village Novosvetlovka"
Kotenochkin Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (1927 - 2000)
Kotenochkin Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - Soviet director, artist and animator. Director of the cartoons “Kitten from Lizyukova Street”, “Gotcha, who bit!”, “Bathhouse”, “Frog Traveler”, “Strange Bird”, “Well, Just Wait!”, “Old Record”. People's Artist of the RSFSR. Laureate of the USSR State Prize.
One of the most famous and beloved directors of animated films, creator of the hit movie “The director of the mischievous, dynamic and humorous films “Mezha”, “He Got Caught”, “Got Gotcha, Who Bitten”, “Old Record”, “Kitten from Lizyukov Street” began as an animator, he worked with the leading directors of Soyuzmultfilm in the 1940s and 50s, was one of the studio's most prolific animators, and took part in the creation of more than 80 films. He was fond of “animating” rhythmic, “fast” episodes, and was a master of dance scenes. As a director, he shot a large number of stories for the film magazine “Fitil”, made animated inserts for the feature films “The Cook”, “Journey to April” and “Everything for You”.
The series of films “” brought Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin fame not only in the USSR, but also in almost all socialist countries. A cafe “Well, wait a minute!” appeared in Bulgaria, and in 1985 Polish children awarded Kotenochkin the highest award that every director of children’s films dreams of - “Order of a Smile.”
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotyonochkin was born on June 20, 1927 in Moscow. One of the most vivid memories of his childhood is the New Year tree in the Hall of Columns, where cartoons were shown. Then he saw them for the first time. It cannot be said that at that very moment he decided to devote his life to animation, but this event left a mark on his soul.
Kotenochkin was left without a father early on - his father died of tuberculosis just before the war.
Like many boys, Slava dreamed of being at the front, and entered the artillery school. There he acquired a military specialty and friends for life. I also learned to play a small trumpet called a cornet-a-piston.
The war ended before school ended. I had to arrange my life. And then a meeting took place that determined the fate of the future animator. Kotenochkin met the outstanding animator Boris Dezhkin, who, having learned that his new acquaintance had once worked in the art studio at the Palace of Pioneers and painted a little, advised him to try to enroll in animator courses at the Soyuzmultfilm studio.
The competition was huge, but Kotenochkin was lucky, he was accepted, and, most importantly, he completed these courses. Not all accepted artists succeeded in this - this profession is too specific - animator. In addition to the fact that you need to draw well, you need to feel movement, have acting talent, be musical...
Work has begun at the Studio. Kotenochkin participated as an animator in a huge number of films, worked with various outstanding directors, classics of Soviet animation, and studied with them.
In the early 1960s, Kotyonochkin tried himself as a director. The debut was successful - one of his first films, “Footprints on the Asphalt,” received a silver medal at the festival in Budapest.
And in 1968 the first episode of “” was released. Neither before nor since has any domestic cartoon had such a resounding success with viewers. Letters arrived in bags, countless creative meetings were held in all corners of the country. The audience asked for a continuation. And the film, which was not originally planned as a series, became the longest animated series of Soviet times.
In parallel with “Well, wait a minute!” Kotyonochkin created several more wonderful films. There is even a monument erected to the characters of one of them - “Kitten from Lizyukov Street”. In Voronezh, on Lizyukova Street - where the events of the film unfold.
Vyacheslav Ktenochkin dreamed of one day creating a big, full-length film, and in the late 1980s and early 1990s work began on “Ruslan and Lyudmila.” Together with the wonderful artist Gennady Novozhilov, a huge amount of preparatory work was done. But times were hard, and the project did not take place. It's a pity.
But what has been done would be enough for two lives. Looking at Kotenochkin’s filmography, you are amazed at how much this man managed to do! And how many smiles he gave to several generations of viewers.
He had many government awards and titles, but most of all he was proud of the Order of the Smile, which Polish children presented to him in the late 1980s.
A television program from the series “How the Idols Left” was prepared about Vyacheslav Kotyonochkin.
Based on materials from the site chtoby-pomnili.com
Many generations of Soviet children remember the popular and famous cartoons of those times “Well, wait a minute!”, “Kitten from Lizyukov Street”, “Mezha”, “The Scarlet Flower”, “Golden Antelope” and many others. These beloved hand-drawn films and their kind, cheerful characters appeared thanks to the Soviet animator and director Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotenochkin, whose 90th birthday the whole world will celebrate on June 20.
On the eve of this significant date, an employee of the library branch No. 4 named after. M. M. Kotsyubinsky centralized library system for adults of the city district of Simferopol Nadezhda Bespalko conducted a cartoon dossier “Vyacheslav Kotenochkin” for visitors to the Center for Social Services for Elderly and Disabled Citizens of the Central District of Simferopol. Life and fate of the “Russian Disney”.
The guests of the event, people of a wise age, enjoyed “plunging” into the animated world, getting acquainted with the milestones of the life and creative path of one of the brightest, famous and beloved directors of animated films. An interesting fact from the life of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - his acquaintance with his second wife, ballerina Tamara Vishneva, happened on the road to Crimea, where Kotenochkin was going on vacation with a friend, and grew into the love of his life. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich lived in a happy marriage with Tamara for almost half a century. Son Alexey worthily continued his father’s work.
Vyacheslav was brought to the Soyuzmultfilm studio, as he himself said, by his passion for drawing and his “frivolous surname.” In 1947, he graduated from animator courses and began working at the studio, first as an animator, and then as a production designer, and from 1962 as a director.
During his creative activity, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich took part in the creation of more than 80 paintings, the popularity of which remains relevant today. But the greatest audience recognition for him as a director came from the hit movie “Well, Just Wait!”, which was not originally planned as a series, but became the longest animated series of Soviet times. Despite its venerable age, “Well, just wait!” still remains one of the most beloved cartoons in domestic animation by viewers. Vyacheslav Kotenochkin gave 24 years of his life to this children's animated series.
He passed away after a long illness, without having time to realize many creative ideas and plans. But what they did would be enough for more than one life. Looking only at the list of Kotyonochkin’s filmography, you are amazed at how much he managed to do. How many smiles and cheerful laughter he gave to several generations of viewers - children and adults. Many experts advise raising children with good books and cartoons. The cartoons of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotenochkin have rightfully occupied one of the first places on this list for many decades.
The works of Russian classics, based on which animated films were created with the direct participation of Vyacheslav Kotenochkin, are presented at the exhibition “Vyacheslav Kotenochkin. The soul of a painted country."
