Ivan Maximov

Ivan Leonidovich Maximov (born 19 November 1958) is a Russian artist, animator and film director.

He worked as an illustrator for various magazines and from 1982 to 1986 he was an engineer at the Russian Space Research Institute.

Between 1986 and 1989 Maximov took advanced studies in Film Directing and Script writing.

In 2003, Maximov created the computer game Full Pipe[3] at PIPE-STUDIO.

The same year, he also began teaching film directing and script writing at school-studio SHAR and VGIK.