Ekaterina Maksimova

Hi and welcome to my personal website!

My name is Kate and I'm a 2D remote Animator based in Austria, I specialize in hand-drawn and 2d digital animation. Please scroll down to see my works.

2D ANIMATION

I took part in various feature films, television shows, game projects and not the only. To see more my animation works, please visit my Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/gekatarina

Ekaterina Maksimova Animation reel (2020) 2.mp4

Animation reel 2020Reel Breakdown:- Cut-out Animation for The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants series. Titmouse inc., Adobe Animate.- 2d Rough Key-Animation for Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Flying Bark inc., Toon Boom Harmony.- Scenes from the Absalon pilot episode (roughs, clean-ups and colouring are done by me). Toonocracy LLC., Adobe Animate.

TRADIGITAL AND CEL-ANIMATION

A year 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.

traditional_animation_colour.mp4

2d traditional and cel-animation for feature movies

Absalon scenes by Ekaterina Maksimova. 2020.mp4

Absalon project. Pilot episode. 2020

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 subject was Drawing and Theatrical Composition. I drew sketches of scenery: similar pictures of the stage with different lights and atmospheres in them, I also liked to make sketches of costumes for actors and create the characters in general. In this point Animation is very similar to Scenery Painting. Obviously, most principles of Theatrical Composition are identical to Animation ones.

You can find my CV and contacts here: Bio