Daring to Create

My name is Russ Michael Kuchman - creative professional currently based in New York City.

Since I was a little boy, I had passion for telling stories through visual media. One of my childhood memories that I have is drawing a series of pictures to tell some funny silly story that my child brain could come up with. I did not know what storyboard was back then, and yet I was making one. And now, years later I do this for a living.

I have been doing creative work professionally since 1999. During years of my creative journey, I experienced a lot of different things in a lot of different places: from running continued education training for creative professionals to developing e-learning videos for nurses in the hospital; from working on a website for a small start-up to building a corporate presentation for a multinational corporation; from web to mobile; from animation to video. That gave me a chance to test my talents in variety ways, develop problem solving creative thinking with solid set of skills, and finally find my true passion for an art of moving images. But most importantly, I was very lucky to meet many great and talented people along the way, whom I worked with, and learned from, and without whom, I would not be where I am right now.

Since 2016 I have been a full-time Multimedia Designer at New-York Presbyterian Hospital Talent Development Group, and my focus lies solely in motion design, animation and 3D.

During my employment at NYPH in 2018 I received GDUSA award for my animation and motion design work on Talent Development Learning Solutions Promotion “Transforming Performance: One Client at a Time”. In addition to that I made contribution to another award-winning project – “Individuals with Substance Use Disorders” Awareness Course that received GDUSA 2018 Health + Wellness Award.

I always have passion for fun; therefore, I am open to freelance work – either it be a challenging animation and motion design project or stimulating collaboration.

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