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Katya Mikheeva

Director, Animator and Character Designer

Katya loves dancing and does it anytime, anywhere. She advocates for freestyle in design, animation, and artistic forms. Her works have a lot of freedom and experimentation. Katya likes to create structure and improvise within it, inventing rules of the game to fully enjoy the process.

— How long have you been working in this field?

2018.

— What’s your job in the studio?

Cheburashka.

— What do you like about your job?

I like brainstorming characters and drawing them thoroughly, building up the structures, systems, and conspiracies.

— What do you hate about the job?

I hate it when work seems tedious, but I always find my way out of there.

— What is your dream (if you have one)?

Fly like a bird, like a thought, like a beam of light.

— What’s your top-3 animation movie recommendation?

“DONT KNOW WHAT” Thomas Renoldner, “Acid Rain” Tomek Popakul, “Mind Game“ Masaaki Yuasa.

Projects by Katya Mikheeva

Founders

Misha Petrick

Misha Petrick

Founder, Head of Development

Nadya Petrick

Nadya Petrick

Co-founder, New Business

Producers

Polina Fufarova

Polina Fufarova

Executive Producer

Artists

Ruslana Mirzaalieva

Ruslana Mirzaalieva

Director, Art Director, Character Designer

Oleg Kulinich

Oleg Kulinich

Director and 3D Visual Researcher

Ilya Buzinov

Ilya Buzinov

Director and Lead Animator

Vova Orlov

Vova Orlov

Director, Lead Animator and Puppet master

Denis Pisarev

Denis Pisarev

Art Director and Character Designer

Katya Mikheeva

Katya Mikheeva

Director, Animator and Character Designer

Alexander Kovalevsky

Alexander Kovalevsky

3D generalist

Dasha Kuznetsova

Dasha Kuznetsova

3D generalist

Ivan Shumov

Ivan Shumov

3D generalist