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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