The HSE Art and Design School invites companies, brands, foundations, and cultural institutions to collaborate once again. Students in the «Animation and Illustration» program will create promotional, informational, and brand identity videos based on your briefs—from concept and script to final animation. Applications are open until August 31, 2026.
Arina Chakyr. Video for the Monkey Grinder coffee chain
Students work with a wide variety of formats:
— advertising and image-building videos;
— explainers;
— animated presentations;
— openers;
— motion design;
— video lectures with animated inserts;
— book trailers and other types of trailers.
Over several years, students in the program have completed more than 200 animation projects for real clients. These include Garage Academy, «White Noise, ” „Yasno, ” „Nochlezhka, ” the Russian Museum, the Association of Galleries, LukuLab, Arzamas („Gus-Gus“), „Pushkin.YOUTH, ” „Inde, ” RADIUS 58, and others.
Ekaterina Volkova. Promo video for the Tolerance Center // Ksenia Matyusha. Video series for Agami Ceramics studio
How the Process Works
After the application deadline, students review project briefs and independently select the projects they wish to undertake. This selection process usually takes two to three weeks.
Work on the videos takes place from September through December under the guidance of subject curators and includes the entire production cycle:
— script development; — directorial concept; — storyboarding; — animation creation; — editing and compositing; — sound design.
Arina Chakyr. Video series for the anti-cafe «Les» // Anastasia Degteva. Video for the gift shop «Kunstkamera»
