[3] A subdivision called "Pilot-TV", founded in 1997, produced satirical animated series using 3D motion-captured characters, most famous of them being the studio's key mascots: the Pilot Brothers based on Chief and Colleague from the popular Soviet mini-series Investigation Held by Kolobki.
[2] Many directors have worked in the studio, including Aleksandr Petrov, Konstantin Bronzit, Ivan Maximov, Andrey Sokolov.
[6] The four final films of the Mountain of Gems series were supposed to be finished in July 2010, with Goskino paying for them in February or April; however, the money was never received.
Studio producer Lev Bubnikov has said that suing Goskino to make them uphold the contract would have been "pointless".
[2] In 2014 an official YouTube channel for Mountain of Gems and its spin-off project Animated Russia was launched where the episodes are uploaded in Russian, English, Spanish and Chinese languages.