Gerhard Funk (1981, South Ural, Russia) has been residing in Germany since 1995. Having graduated from Media Arts & Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Saar (Saarbrücken, Germany) in 2011, he took various jobs in the creative industry such as 3D Animator, Motion Graphics Artist and Freelance Visual Artist. In 2020 he became an Artistic Associate at Burg Giebichenstein Fine Art Academy (Halle, Germany). Since 2008 he continues to work on independent animated short films.