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His surname can be seen in the credits of more than 80 cartoons, but the main work was the famous series about the wolf and the hare - “Well, wait a minute! The path of Kotyonochkin to animation Vyacheslav Kotinochkin was born in Moscow on June 20. From early childhood, the boy was fond of drawing. Love for animation began a little later. In the year, he visited the New Year's holiday - a Christmas tree in the column hall of the House of Unions.

To get there was considered an incredible success and a miracle. Children of the government and the best students of Moscow and the schools closest to the city could do this. It was there that Vyacheslav Mikhailovich first looked at the cartoons. He was delighted and signed up in the istudio. New Year tree in the column hall of the House of Unions. Photographer Sergey Vasin.

In the year, Kotyonochkin after the seven classes enters the artillery special school. Later - at the anti -tank artillery school in Penza. He still does not forget about his main hobby. At 17, the animation film "Bambi" watches. According to him, the impression of the cartoon played a decisive role in choosing a profession.

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich also joked that a frivolous surname brought him to the animation. The first steps in the profession after demobilization in the year Kotyonochkin came to Soyuzmultfilm, about to enter the courses. Initially, the studio was created as the Soviet analogue of the American Disney, but in the postwar years, the transition to its own animated methods, refusal to copy.

In Soyuzmultfilm, the young artist met Boris Dyozhkin. He was already a famous multiplier director. After looking at the work of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, he advised him to throw them all away and go to the zoo to draw animals. The most important was the movement, his Kitinochkin and had to learn to transmit. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich entered the courses. Having finished them, he was enrolled in the headquarters of artists.

In the year, they worked together on the cartoon "Leo and the Hare", the latter was amazingly similar to a hare from "Bambi". The experience of creating serial characters also received with Diezhkin, making an “extraordinary match”, “old acquaintances” - cartoons about the sports competitions of wooden men. Frame from the cartoon "Leo and the Hare", Soyuzmultfilm studio.

With Leo Atamanov, he worked on the Golden Antilopa and the Scarlet Flower, using the Retoscopy method that is popular at that time, when the artist draws on top of the staff with actors. In the Soviet Union, it was called Eclair. It was used to achieve the realism of what is happening. Mikhail Tsekhanovsky is resorted to the same method in Kashtanka, which also worked on the creation of Kitinochkin.

Frame from the cartoon Polkan and Shavka, Soyuzmultfilm studio. They listened to a good jazz and danced a lot. The young artist was not distinguished by discipline and loved to have fun, so once he was close to dismissal. His statement written in the original manner was saved: "I ask you to dismiss me, and if possible, leave me." Kitinochkin treated life with easy and optimism.

A turning point in the career becomes a cartoon of the year "Wonderworker". It was shot during the corporate campaign of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev. Dedicated to the beneficial qualities of the “Wonderworker” product was very popular. After this, the artist’s cartoon is invited to the film magazine Sergey Mikhalkov “Fitil” already as a director. He was offered to make animated inserts.

The postcard based on the cartoon "Wonderworker" Vyacheslav Mikhailovich - director, director Kitinochkin was demanding and strict, but attracted him with lightness and naturalness. His friends and colleagues celebrated mischief and pedantry in him. He preferred to solve working issues at the table, in each company he became a center, had many acquaintances. One of his expressions was: "The impulse does not tolerate a break." Vyacheslav Mikhailovich directed his first author's cartoon in the year.

It was called “We are such masters” - a ten -minute narrative of agricultural technology: The next work is “Traces on the asphalt” - a detective, instructive story with an experienced dog and a puppy. In addition to the drawings, it used documentary frames of Moscow. The psychologism of the characters and the complexity of their spiritual experiences are noticeable in the next cartoon-“Frog-Traveler”, which can be compared with a large film.

The director uses a variety of external manifestations to transmit and enhance the internal state: randomness, a sharp change in personnel, approach and removal of the “camera”. Frame from the cartoon "Frog-Traveler", the Unionmultfilm studio. In the year, the leadership of Soyuzmultfilm received an order to make a cartoon with the idea “Do not offend the weak”. The pilot two -minute release was removed by the beginning at that time director Gennady Sokolsky.

A frame from the pilot series “Well, wait a minute! Later, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich said: “Well, I painted a hare pretty quickly. I immediately turned out to be some kind of chubby, with pink cheeks, with blue eyes, in general, a very laid bunny. ”Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotyonochkin at work in the next cartoons of Kotyonochkin, for example, in the “Forest Trope” or “He got”, the heroes of the Zeans retain their typical features.

The hare from the cartoon "Well, wait a minute! Everything was not so simple with the wolf. In order to draw it, Kotyonochkin looked a lot at himself in the mirror. The wolf received a gait and gestures from the artist. The appearance - the unfastened shirt, the guitar and the cigarette - was drawn on the gates of Moscow. When creating the hero, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich was inspired by the image of Kotovsky from the film of the same name.

Kotovsky from the film "Kotovsky". Director Alexander Fainzimmer. Anatoly Papanov was invited. The style of the resulting heroes was completely different from those that we can see in the pilot. The first series was released on January 1 of the year. In general, no one planned to make a series, as well as the glory that fell upon the creators. The streets of the city were empty when the next episode began on TV.

What is the secret? The adult viewer found the points of contact between his own life and the one that he saw on the screen. The wolf and the hare walk around the park, come to the beach or in the village, engaged in the stadium, ended up in the stadium, find themselves in the Ostankino, buy watermelons in the tent. For many, it was the wolf that became close to his rather unheard of life.

Now it is impossible to imagine such a hero in children's animation. The life of the wolf wolf and the hare on the ballet was played an important role was played by music. Basically used hits - popular compositions. The children loved “Well, wait a minute! Some accused the authors of imitating the popular American cartoon Tom and Jerry. Indeed, the plot is similar. The creators, however, claimed to get acquainted with the work of William Hannah and Joseph Barber much later.

Complete “Well, wait a minute! In fans of the cartoon, even a party elite was listed. The last series of the canonical series with Anatoly Papanov was released on September 2. After "Well, wait a minute! For "well, wait a minute! Kotyonochkin considered his main award the order of smiles received in the year from Polish children. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich continued to work.

In the year, a famous and now cartoon “Kitten from Lizyukov Street” is released about a kitten from Voronezh. A frame from the cartoon “Kitten from Lizyukov Street”, in recent years, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich has been seriously ill for a year, but did not stop creating cartoons that he devoted almost all his life. The multiplier Fedor Khitruk recalled that Kotyonochkin’s favorite phrase was: “Why are we so happy?

Yes, because talented! Vyacheslav Mikhailovich died on November 20. The author of the text: Ekaterina Eremkina.