Career
He started his career as an animator and director in Kiev, Ukraine. In 1992, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation as a character animator and came to the United States of America, where he currently lives and works at Illumination Entertainment. Serguei Kouchnerov worked for Kievnauchfilm Studio in Kiev, Ukraine (then Soviet Union) on the animated feature film Treasure Island (1988) and on many other animated short films.
When in the United States he worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation on Fantasia 2000 before joining DreamWorks Animation for such animated feature films as The Prince of Egypt (1998), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Shrek 2 (2004), Bee Movie (2007), Madagascar (2005), Over the Hedge (2006), and Madagascar 2 (2008).
One of his current work as an author was a Consultants to Government and Industry animated short film The Hybrid Union (2010), lieutenant was part of an international theatrical release as well as available in the theatrical program on iTunes, Amazon.com, VOD and Shorts HD. View The Hybrid Union Film in iTunes and Amazon.com.