sentences:  Kachanov's best-known works, ("The Mitten", "Gena the Crocodile", "Cheburashka", "Shapoklyak" and others) were shot in stop motion (volume) animation.The characters were designed by Natalya Orlova.Her daughter, the actress Ekaterina Semyonova, said that Alice was based on her, and her father, (the director Tengiz Semyonov), was the prototype for Captain Zelyonyy.