Maki Ota

Maki Ota

IllustratorLondon, United Kingdom
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Maki Ota

Maki Ota

IllustratorLondon, United Kingdom
Projects
  • SHORT BREAK
    SHORT BREAKA series of animations made by people’s intimate moments around London. The subtle emotions are exposed through the crowd by tracing and observing their movements frame by frame. This project aims to form comprehensive records of our everyday performance and contemporary scenes with brief and nuanced storytelling as poetry.
  • MUSEUM SELFIE
    MUSEUM SELFIE10 SECOND POETRY is a series of animations made by people’s intimate moments around London. The subtle emotions are exposed through the crowd by tracing and observing their movements frame by frame. This project aims to form comprehensive records of our everyday performance and contemporary scenes with brief and nuanced storytelling as poetry.
  • Passage Tells
    Passage TellsAnimation for the artist, Daisuke Nakazawa's Passage Tells Project. It is a site-specific sound installation focusing on one passage in a city. The work is composed of recorded interviews and conversations with people living and working around the passage. / Aug 2015
  • Passage Tells : Brixton
    Passage Tells : BrixtonPassage Tells : Brixton Exhibition Flyer for the artist, Daisuke Nakazawa's Passage Tells Project. It is a site-specific sound installation focusing on one passage in a city. The work is composed of recorded interviews and conversations with people living and working around the passage.
  • PEOPLE IN MUSEUM
    PEOPLE IN MUSEUMObservation of how people behave in the museum around London
  • 10 SECOND POETRY_experiments
    10 SECOND POETRY_experimentsLondon is home to a diverse range of people including immigrants and tourists. This melting pot creates a fusion of various personal expressions and interactions with others. However, the hyper-pace at which the city is driven often means we quickly pass by these moments as a crowd. The work captures every detail of the subject’s movement by tracing film stills frame by frame, also known as rotoscope animation. It engages the viewer with a brief but nuanced way form of visual storytelling and essentially gives lens of re-discovering our elaborate everyday performance.
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Work history
    Intern
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Skills
  • Art Direction
  • Drawing
  • Digital
  • Animation
  • Design
  • Illustration
  • Rotoscoping
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
Education
    Communication Design
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    Science of Design
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    Visual Communication