#MAJOR GROM THE PLAGUE DOCTOR SERIES#

Prior to that, the studio had released the short film Major Grom. It is the second film adapted from Bubble Comics, as well as the first feature-length film based on a Russian comic.

#MAJOR GROM THE PLAGUE DOCTOR SERIES#

Motion Design: Nikita Shapovalov, Sergey Savvinįor more information make sure to check out dobroccs.Major Grom: Plague Doctor ( Russian: Майор Гром: Чумной Доктор, romanized: Mayor Grom: Chumnoy Doktor) is a 2021 Russian action film directed by Oleg Trofim, based on the comic book series of the same name by the Russian publisher Bubble Comics, created by Artyom Gabrelyanov.Simulation: Dmitrii Dolgikh, Alexey Konovalov, Artur Gadzhiev, Akmal Sultanov.

Visualisation: Dmitrii Dolgikh, Anton Veryovkin, Elena Rassokhina, Alexey Zhuravlyov, Sergey Movchan, Anton Mishenin.

3D Generalists: Artur Terletskiy, Alexander Tokar, Kirill Wygranenko, Ruslan Ziganshin.

Modeling: Marina Pustovaya, Alexander Likhovsikh, Danya Sativa, Azat Batyrov, Pavel Izotov, Sergey Kudryavtsev, Azamat Sayfullayev, Anastasiya Khromova, Rustam Algayev, Vadim Borzenko.

Animation: Maxim Mikhailov, Georgiy Mamatov, Eugeniy Shestopalov, Maxim Solovyov, Anna Pozdeeva.

Concept Art: Anton Grechko, Darya Petukhova, Ivan Nikin, Andrey Osadchikh.

Creative Group: Oleg Trofim, Alexey Dimkov, Danila Rusanov, Dmitry Smirnov.

Producers: Ira Vorobyova, Natasha Sorokina, Anton Goncharov.

Art-Director, Concept Art: Danila Rusanov.

Chief Technical Officer: Dmitrii Dolgikh.

Compositors: Tsoy V.R., Tikhomirov I.R., Guryanov G.K, Kasparyan Y.D.

It was important for us to show him not literally, 'head-on', but just like everything else in our opener - figuratively and poetically, in the sensitive and emotional sense. Plague Doctor is the main antihero, and the moment of his appearance in the opener is in fact his first appearance in a movie. In addition, at the very last moment, we came up with the idea to completely depersonalize a man by adding a mask to his face. The main character of this scene is also a metaphorical, collective image - a bored fat man tired of life, mired in luxury and debauchery. We decided to create a classic, elegant and simple, recognizable image of the ancient Themis. Themis, one of the main images of the opener, is the top of our megalithic sculpture. The next step was to turn the main idea into a full-fledged scenario with a storyboard, to think over the action, characters, camera angles and the mechanics of camera movement. 'It seemed to us that this idea wittily and broadly reflected the main plot of the film, and so with minor changes, we stuck to it until the end of the production.' Case Study

The sculpture symbolizes a sick society, as a consequence of suffering injustice, it exudes a black liquid and this liquid generates a mirror image of this world-sculpture, distorted, turned upside down, the crown of which is now the Plague Doctor - the personification of perverted, sick justice. The idea was to take all the images described in the director's brief and combine them into one sculpture, the crown of which will be Themis. They wanted to avoid just a 'contemplative' narrative by showing only beautiful spectacular symbols, so we needed to find an idea and to subordinate everything to a single plan and dramaturgical logic. This was not an imposed obligation, but only offered as a starting point. Petersburg architectural heritage, as well as scandalous wealth and luxury. These were images somehow connected with the narrative of the film - the statue of Themis, the dump, callous construction sites against the background of the St. Dobro CCS carefully studied the images suggested by the director, using them as a starting point in our brainstorming.

Major grom the plague doctor