Anna Hrachovec is a Chicago-based designer and artist who combines her passions for knitting and cute characters to create toys, installations, and animations for all ages. She divides her time between designing patterns that she shares with a crafting audience and sharing stop-motion animations and GIFs with a broader audience online. Her soft sculptures and installations have been exhibited in galleries around the US and in Europe and Asia, and her animation clients include Nickelodeon, Sesame Workshop, Munich Transport Corporation, and GIPHY.