Dmitry Vysotsky

Dmitry Vysotsky is a Russian animation director, artist, screenwriter and voice actor, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He studied at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Culture and in 1993 completed higher courses for screenwriters and directors as an animation artist. He worked in television, commercial and educational animation and, with the artist Andrey Sikorsky, ran the studio Plasticine Workshop, renamed Vysotsky and Sikorsky in 1999; he is best known as a director of the animated series Kid-E-Cats (Three Cats) and as the voice of the horse Julius in the Three Bogatyrs films. He has taught as an associate professor of directing at the Saint Petersburg State University of Film and Television, and his work has won prizes at Russian and international animation festivals.