Okui was born and raised in Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan. In 1994 He graduated from the Department of Scenography, Display and Fashion Design in Musashino Art University. In the same year, with his first hand drawing animation “CAVE”, he won the Second Prize in Category E (Shorter than 5 minutes) at the 5th International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA 1994. Later he has been working on animations and illustrations featuring 3DCGs.
After his 4-year career at a video picture production company, in 1998 he set up his own screen image production team, “digdog.”
He was nominated at SIGGRAPH’99`Computer Animation Festival, and won Special Prize at JACA’99 Japan Visual Art Exhibition, Excellence Award in the Art Works Category at Digital Content Grand Prix 2002, and many other prizes. And his works were selected as the recommended works by the judging committee at the 6th and the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival.
Inviting Mr. Ohji Hiroi as a producer, Okui is now working on “Fushigi Circus”, which is his original work for the first time in 10 years.
Okui is a member of ASIFA-JAPAN, and served as one of the International selection Committee members of the 11th International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA.

“Long Long Way”: music video for Chemistry
“Moon and Sweet Tears”: music video for Chara
“Strange Japanese”: opening movie for a TV Program of TBS
“Dramatic”: music video for YUKI
“Fushigi Knuckles”: cover illustration for a magazine published by Million Publishing
“Dreamcast” illustration for a single CD jacket of SEGA, Executive Director Mr. Yukawa
etc.

Second Prize in the Short Animation Category at the 5th International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA 1994
Excellence Award in the Art Works Category at Digital Content Grand Prix 2002
Special Prize at JACA’99 Japan Visual Art Exhibition
Special Prize at JACA’98 Japan Visual Art Exhibition
Nominated at SIGGRAPH’99`Computer Animation Festival (USA)
Nominated at the 9th International Animation Festival HIROSHIMA 2002
Selected as the recommended work in the Entertainment Category by the judging committee at the 6th Japan Media Arts Festival
Selected as the recommended work in the Digital Art and
Noninteractive Motion Picture Category by the judging committee at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival