Katerina Pantela
Co-Creator/Art Director

Katerina is a character designer and concept artist for animation. She has mainly been working on Disney XD, Nickelodeon, Amazon Prime and Netflix animated TV productions at studios such as Boulder Media, Cartoon Saloon, Brown Bag Films, etc. Recently she has worked on Mikrofilm's upcoming animated feature film Titina, a Norwegian/Belgian co-production directed by Kajsa Næss. Katerina is also the Art Director and designer of the first Cypriot animated TV series under development, Magic Molly. She has also directed the animated music video The Ice Cream (Ο Παγωτατζής) for O Tempelis Drakos, that has collected millions of views and fans on YouTube and schools in the Mediterranean and across the globe. Since October 2018 Katerina has also been holding the position of Vice-President for Cyprus' Animation Association/ Asifa Cyprus.

Maria Pavlou
Co-creator/Producer

Maria has earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Animation from Ringling College of Art and Design (USA) and her Master in Digital Arts from Camberwell College of Arts (UK). While still in college, she was selected and trained at the Walt Disney Animation Boot Camp in California. Maria is a published author and a lot of her short stories have won prizes in writing contests. She is the creator and producer of Magic Molly, a preschool animated TV series supported by Creative Europe/MEDIA and pitched at Cartoon Forum (currently in development). Throughout her career, Maria has written and directed animated shorts for kids, screened at various film festivals. Her latest film “Dragon Recipes”, which was supported by the Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee, is currently in festivals worldwide. One of its latest screenings was at the Academy Award Qualifying Festival River Run. Maria also teaches 3D animation classes at university level, both in undergraduate and graduate programs.

Magnus Kravik
Co-Director/Storyboard Artist

Magnus is an EMMY-nominated storyboard artist with broad experience in games, TV, shorts and feature animation. Throughout his career he has worked on a variety of BAFTA, Emmy and Annie nominated TV-shows that have aired on Disney XD, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Netflix and Amazon Prime. In these productions, he has held a variety of roles including animator, storyboard artist and storyboard supervisor. He was also involved in the story process of Magic Molly, a TV series under development which went to Cartoon Forum in 2018. For his contribution to the opening titles of Vampirina he was nominated for the 45th Annual Daytime EMMY Awards for Outstanding Main Title and Graphic Design. Magnus also has experience as a story artist on feature films including an undisclosed CGI feature by Boulder Media and Titina – a hand drawn animated feature film from the Oscar-winning studio Mikrofilm. Most recently he worked on The House, a Netflix stop motion production directed by Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roles at Nexus studios.

Michael Papanicolaou
Lead Character Animator

Michael is an animator specialised in 2D Animation, Animation Direction, Storyboards and Design. After completing his studies in Animation Production at the Arts University in Bournemouth (UK), he worked as a 2D animator at Boulder Media (Dublin, Ireland) for TV series such as Danger Mouse of CBBC and Randy Cunningham 9th Grade Ninja, Season 2 of DisneyXD. He then worked as a 2D animator, storyboard artist and character designer on projects in Cyprus.The last two years he worked as animation director, 2D animator, storyboard artist and designer for O Tempelis Drakos where he created animated music videos for a series of children's songs, collecting millions of fans on YouTube.