Jelena Walf (1982, Moscow) graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. Since 2000 she has been working as an illustrator for the children’s magazine Schrumdirum. In the past years she also illustrated several books for Russian, South Korean, Taiwanese, French and German publishing houses. Since October 2011 she is studying at the Animation Institute of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg.