Roman Kachanov (1921-1993). Russian stop-motion director.

The first time I saw this I was sitting at my desk at work and I was blown away. It's so friggin cute and amazingly done, from it's character design, story and the smoking mom. Check it out, I hope you like it as much as I do. Turns out Roman was part of Soyuzmultfilm which was a really cool animation studio in Russia.