Portfolio 2026
Ivan Shutov, Animator and Illustrator
Who is this guy?
Ivan Shutov, 21 y.o., animation and illustration
has experience working with non-profit organizations and commissioning clients
I bring a lively, wild touch to animation, love to work on unique character designs and thought-out, yet fun worlds.
Animation
«Soda Can»
One of my most recent animation works includes a music video for a song «Soda Can» by the band «Arizona Dream», with all of the visual for the project being done solo.
It is a short, 2-minute long music video about an office worker, who had left his life’s only relief — the titular soda can — at home. I was tasked with coming up with the scenario and screenplay myself, with the only guidance I was given being the visual style of the work and some reference material for the band’s characters.
All characters but the protagonist were based on existing designs used by the band’s members and adapted into the style of the animation.
I’ve decided to control the workload by splitting the six featured characters into different unrelated plots, all being developed throughout the music video and crossing together at the moment of them drinking the long-sought-after soda can.
Below is the finalized version of the music video.
Illustration
«Posession»
These illustrations were done for my upcoming short film of a collector and her unique find, posessed by evil forces, longing for adoration.
