Nadine Kovalchuk

Hello!

I’m a 2D Artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine, currently located in Lviv.

Having a Master’s degree in Computer Science and after years of working for an IT company, I decided to go after my childhood dream and focus on the profession of an artist.

I started my journey as an artist in 2016, at the age of 26.

I tried myself in different artistic areas such as character design, illustration, comic art before I committed myself to my true passion – animation.

Nowadays I work on my animated feature film named “The Butterfly”. I still do storyboarding, animation, character designs, comic art and illustrations as a freelance artist.

10 RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME:

1. I’m “Mavka: The Forest Song” director’s graduated student.
2. I’m a leader of Urbansketchers Lviv community.
3. I studied AI when it wasn’t mainstream.
4. I have N5 Japanese.
5. The animated TV series that influenced me the most is ‘Sailor Moon’ (1992). This anime fueled my interest of animation and Japanese culture.
6. Some of my fav animated TV series are: ‘Sailor Moon’ (1992), ‘Dexter’s Laboratory’ (1995), ‘The Powerpuff Girls’ (1998), ‘Samurai Jack’ (2001), ‘The Cuphead Show!’ (2022), ‘Scott Pilgrim Takes Off’ (2023).
7. I’m a bilingual person.
8. I used to be left-handed in my deep-deep childhood.
9. I’ve been attending a dance ensemble for 9 years. I used to dance Ukrainian folk dances.
10. I’ve been working in hosting support as a customer support and then as a technical engineer for 5 years in total.