Max Lushchyk

Max Lushchyk is an animation director, screenwriter and art director based in Tbilisi, Georgia, who was born in Minsk, Belarus, and studied at the Saint Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. After about twenty years in the field he works as a contract animation director, writer and art director for studios including Soyuzmultfilm, and leads the animation studio Condenser Labs, which makes popular-science projects and installations for museums such as the Darwin and Polytechnic museums. His work also spans games, video scenography for theatre, the animated short Generation Ship (2014) and the comic book Project GORB, and he describes his method as research-driven worldbuilding.