“The idea was developed by Dmitry Vysotsky and Andrey Sikorsky, but we have an international story editor in London, we get input from our global rights distributor APC Kids, based in Paris, and dubbing is done in New York.”
Riki Group’s “The Fixies” is already taking note, with the characters chosen as mascots of the Russian Pavilion at Expo 2020 and boasting a collaboration with H&M. New features “Finnick” and “Beardy Bodo” will hopefully follow suit, the latter introducing a man who “knows nothing, but he will teach anything and everything.”
“There is almost a competition for who has more minutes of animation ready, which is a trend we don’t follow,” says Vladimir Nikolaev, executive producer at Wizart Animation, soon to deliver “The Warrior Princess” and the fifth part of the “Snow Queen” franchise.
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