Serguei V Nepomnine                                                                                                              

 

Personal Profile

Serguei Nepomnine is an award-winning designer, with over 20 years of experience working in the entertainment industry as an art director, costume designer, choreographer, and more, currently concentrating on Visual Effects art with focus on modeling and texture for films and commercials.

 

Skills

• Maya

• After Effects

• Z-Brush

• 3DS Max

• Mudbox

• Photoshop

• Premiere

• V-Ray

 

Professional Experience

Professional experience includes directing, art directing, costume design, choreography, acting, dancing, set design and lighting design for theater, film and video productions in Russia and the USA. Which include; over 200 episodes of music videos as an art director, set designer, choreographer, star- U-Best Studios, Los Angeles; motion pictures like- “Music From Another Room,” “Just Add Love”; TV shows like- “Days of Our Lives,” “Sally Jesse Raphael Talk Show,” “Amazing America Talk Show,” theater shows include- over 1000 dance shows, 25 National and four International tours, SCR Gala ’96-’99, “The Gift” PC SCR, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Dancing At Lughnasa”, Best Choreographers Award Show.

Owner/Designer of the House of Udachi design company (‘90-‘08)

Staff Member/Instructor at the Professional Conservatory, South Coast Repertory Theater ('97-'02)

Perspective and Observational Drawing Tutor at the Art Institute of CA, OC (’12-’16)

 

CG

Writer’s Stall – group project (modeling, texture, lighting)                                    June 2015 - December 2015

 

Awards

2d place award on Russian National Designers Competition/Exhibition at The Exhibition Of National Achievements (VDNH USSR) Moscow, Russia- '82, '83

3d place award on Russian National Designers Competition/Exhibition at The Exhibition Of National Achievements (VDNH USSR) Moscow, Russia- '81

United States National Professional Fred Astaire Ballroom Dance Champion

Recipient of numerous Best Teacher Awards from US National Dance Championships

 

Education

The Art Institute of California-Orange County, Santa Ana CA                                January 2011- June 2016

Bachelors of Science, Media Arts and Animation    

 

Professional Conservatory ’96, SCR Theater, Costa Mesa, CA                              June 1996 - August 1996

Certificate of Acting

 

Moscow Theater Arts University Founded by Stanislavsky, Moscow, Russia              Sept 1985 - June 1989

Bachelors of Performing Arts

 

Moscow University of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia                               Sept 1979 - June 1985

Masters of Chemical Technology 

 

Mitishi Art School #1, Mitishi, Russia                                                                Sept 1975 - June 1979

 

Languages

Fluent in English and Russian