Sofiia Melnyk is a Ukrainian illustrator and animator. In 2018 she graduated from the Animationsinstitut at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and has been working as a freelancer since then. She has illustrated several books and music album covers, worked as an animator, animation supervisor and designer on short movies, as well as animated feature films and documentaries for TV and cinema. Her own projects have more of a documentary touch. After the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion in Ukraine Sofiia has been exploring this topic in her work, participating in projects which are explaining Ukrainian issues to the world and are promoting Ukrainian art.