Who is YamelYamato?
Hi!
I'm Aina, aka YamelYamato.
Artist from Barcelona, with 5 years of experience and specializing in frame-by-frame animation.
Designed, directed, illustrated, animated and edited multiple projects from start to finish. From music videos to graphic material for exhibitions.
What drives me is collaborating with fellow artists who have a strong vision and are always willing to have fun and experiment with visual arts.
I also think there's no such thing as art without an audience, so I always make sure everything I create has a clear purpose and it's tailored to the story behind each project.
To break the professional vibe of this introduction, let's share some non-work-related interests.
My favorite Pokemon is Lickitung and I love being active by playing squash, climbing, snowboarding or hiking.
My dream is to buy a house in the middle of the forest and live a happy, chill life with my dog and lots of chickens.
Why YamelYamato?
Let's address the reasoning behind my weird artist name.
For that, we need to go back to my teenage years, full of League of Legends and long nights.
In Catalonia, there's a popular dessert made of cottage cheese and honey, which is called "mel i mató". Back in high school, my friend made the dumbest joke when he discovered that saying "there's honey, there's cottage cheese" in Catalan, "hi ha mel, hi ha mató", sounds very Japanese if you say it fast.
If we write "hi ha mel, hi ha mató" in Japanese style, it becomes YamelYamato, which became my League of Legends name for years, and it's currently my artist name.