Vasiko Bedoshvili was born in 1960 in Georgia. After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of Georgian Technical University in 1983, he worked at a number of film and animation production studios including Georgia Films, Pilot Animation Studio (Moscow) before joining Aeroplane Productions Studio in 2009. His work included the direction of numerous advertisements and music videos. At Aeroplane, Mr. Bedoshvili has taken part in the development and direction of more than 30 episodes of The Fixies. Ivan Pshonkin was born in Moscow in 1980. In 2008, Ivan graduated from Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities with a degree as an Art Teacher. Without any formal education in animation he joined Soyuzmultfilm Studio in 1997 as an intern. It was there where he learned about animation as he worked as an in-betweener and clean-up artist. Ivan joined Aeroplane Productions Studio in 2012, where he has directed 20 episodes of The Fixies.