About me

Olga Makarchuk is London based Animator and Animation Director, who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2017. In her films Olga likes to blend in different animation techniques to create worlds, which are slightly surreal, quite poetic and very ironic. Olga’s short films ‘Below’ (2017) and ‘The Gum’ (2014) were screened at numerous animation festivals and received awards. Olga has also been working as a director/animator commercially with New York Times, School of Life and Oxford University Museums among others.

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Projects

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  RSA Shorts - The Attention EconomyHow to keep freedom of attention in the times of digital distraction... The Royal Society of Arts commission, based on a lecture of James Williams. Director: Olga Makarchuk Animation: Olga Makarchuk, Kim Alexander Colouring Assistance: Anna Makarchuk AFX Compositing/Sound Design: Nico Antwerp Intro animation by Cabeza Patata Video Producer: Ross Henbest Joint Head of Public Events Programme: Mairi Ryan thersa.org
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  The School Of Life. 'How To Narrate Your Life Story'How To Narrate Your Life Story’. Animation for the School Of Life, written and narrated by Alain De Botton. Directed/Animated by Olga Makarchuk, Additional Animation by Roxana Bentu
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  Oxford University Museums. 'Mindgrowing'Animation for Oxford University Museums ‘Mindgrowing’ project Art Direction – LOVERS Animation – Olga Makarchuk Illustrations – Ellie Foreman-Peck

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Projects credited in

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  Is Our Attention for Sale? | James WilliamsDo you think our attention is for sale? Is the technology we carry in our pockets distracting us from pursuing our life goals? Have we woken up to the scale of the attention-capturing and persuasive powers being held by a small number of big tech companies? In the latest RSA Short, James Williams warns of the dangers that digital distraction poses to us individually and collectively. If we’re serious about protecting human agency and democracy, he argues, it’s time we started defending our freed
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  'BELOW' (Royal College Of Art, 2017)Below every surface is another world with its own rules and rulers… My Royal College of Art graduation film. Directed/Animated by Olga Makarchuk Producer – Royal College of Art, London Sound Design/Music – Nico Antwerp Additional Animation - Kim Alexander, Andriy Slesarewsky, Marta Reis-Andrade Colouring - Kyle Peyton, Eugenia Shot-Cheten, Anna Makarchuk, Ruifan Wang, Asheila Amara, Leona Kadijevic Sound Mixing - Mike Wyeld With support by Novatorfilm animation studio Screenings: Encounters Fi
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  BBC - Anthropocene / Age Of HumansLast sound work I did for BBC is now online.

Work history

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Senior Motion Graphics DesignerDusted Design Partners Ltd.
Apr 2024 - May 2024London, United KingdomFreelance

Skills

• Animation
• Illustration
• After Efects
• Stop Motion
• Photoshop
• Directing
• Abobe Illustrator
• Maya 3D
• Adobe Flash
• Motion Graphics

Education

MARoyal College of Art
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017London, United Kingdom
MA Animation
PgDip Central Saint Martins (UAL)
Sep 2008 - Jul 2009London, United Kingdom
PgDip Character Animation