2dAnimator E.Maksimova

Ekaterina Maksimova

2D Animator

My name is Kate and I'm a 2D Animator. I have experience as a storyboard and animatic artist, participated in various feature films, television shows, game project and personal work. I specialise in hand drawn and 2d digital animation. I've animated on projects such as Nickelodeon's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series and Netflix's The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants series and not the only, as well as on several personal and game projects. I also have a short tradigital film titled Comet.

2d animation

My experience as an animator counts more than 7 years.
This reel showcases my work done for various feature films, television show, game project and personal work.

Reel Breakdown:
- 2d Rough Key-Animation for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Toon Boom Harmony, Flying Bark inc.
- Dancing Dan. Cutout Personal project. Adobe Animate
- Cut-out Animation for Furious Jack game project, Adobe Animate, Forgingames studio
- Comet flight. Personal project (art and animation done by me) in Adobe Animate
- Rough Animation for the feature project "Ilya Muromets i Solovey Razboynik” Toonz Harlequin, animation studio Melnitsa
- Rough Animation for the feature project "Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych” Macromedia Flash and hand-drawn animation, animation studio Melnitsa

Tradigital and cel-Animation

As a theater artist, I drew sketches of scenery, similar pictures of the stage with different lights and atmospheres in them, I liked to make sketches of costumes for actors and create characters in general. In this point Animation is very similar to Scenery Painting. Obviously, most principles of theater composition are identical to animation ones. A years after my graduation at Penza Art College in 2005 I got in one of the biggest and well-known animation studio in Russia - Melnitsa where I learned the basics of Animation. Couple months after I got on my first big animation project, it was a feature movie titled Ilya Muromets and Solovey Razboynik (2006) as a cel-animator. That's how I met the Animation.

Reel Breakdown:
- Rough Animation for the feature project "Ilya Muromets and Solovey Razboynik”. Toonz Harlequin, animation studio Melnitsa
- Rough Animation for the feature project "Dobrynya Nikitich and Zmey Gorynych”. Macromedia Flash and hand-drawn animation, animation studio Melnitsa

Graphics and paintings

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be an Artist, and I always knew one day I will. That’s why I made a decision to study Arts. At College my favourite subjects were Drawing and Theatrical Composition.