Darya Melnikova

Darya Melnikova is a Russian animation director, storyboard artist and digital artist from the Volgograd region who also publishes her own work under the name Moro No Mori. She graduated as an animation and computer graphics director from the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television in 2020 and has since worked as a director at the Petersburg computer animation studio on series including Smeshariki, Detective Finnik, Super Myau, PinCode 2.0 and Nakhodkin. She was one of the storyboard directors of the feature Smeshariki: Through the Universes (2026), develops her own animated project S0DAHEAD, and has served on the PiterKiT student film festival jury (2023) and the graduation examination board for animation directors at her alma mater (2025).