«Abyss» — short 2D-animated film, based on original novel by Leonid Andreev.

Student Nemovetsky is walking through the fields with his lover, seventeen-year-old Zina. Gradually it gets dark and it turns out that the young people are lost. They meet dirty vagrants several times on the way, and then find themselves in the woods, where they are attacked by three drunken men.

Participant of the competition program of animated films of the XXXII Festival of Russian Cinema “Window to Europe” (2024).
 

Participants:

Paranoid animation — production,

Dmitriy Nekrasov — director, compositing artist

Polina Merkulova — art-director,

Alena Sycheva, Kirill Keychenko — executive producers,

Artem Fadeev — composer & sound designer.

2023.

Animatic, 8 minutes. Storyboarding, editing by me.