Olga Blackledge

With the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian animation industry, which had just started booming, is in crisis—much of the production is on hold due to financial difficulties or the lack of the professionals who either emigrate or fight at the front. And yet, animators who continue working in Ukraine have been producing and releasing various types of animated films. This book discusses Ukrainian animation of the past fifteen years as a unique case of the national animation industry, focusing on the labor, the systems of animation financing and distribution, and the varieties of aesthetics and subject matter. While discussing the domestic significance of this industry, this book also places it within the global animation production and distribution.