Serguei Kouchnerov
Serguei Kouchnerov (Siarhiej Kušniaroŭ, , born 22 June 1960 in Rahachow, Byelorussian SSR) - artist, animator, director, story artist and screenwriter. He started his career as an animator and director in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1992, he was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation as a character animator and came to the United States of America, where he currently lives and works at Illumination Entertainment. Career. Siarhiej Kušniaroŭ worked for Kyivnaukfilm in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union) on the animated feature film "Treasure Island" (1988) and on many other animated short films. After moving to the United States  he worked for Walt Disney Feature Animation on "Fantasia 2000" before joining DreamWorks Animation for such animated feature films as "The Prince of Egypt" (1998), "The Road to El Dorado" (2000), "Shrek 2" (2004), "Bee Movie" (2007), "Madagascar" (2005), "Over the Hedge" (2006), and "" (2008). One of his current works as an author was a CGI animated short film The Hybrid Union.