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Motion Director & 3D Lead

Yuki Tanaka

I find the choreography inside every brand identity and give it somewhere to live.

  • Dubai, UAE
  • Joined 2015

About

Yuki leads motion and 3D at the studio, bringing a background in broadcast design and commercial animation to every project. She spent five years at a Tokyo production house before relocating to Dubai, where she joined Kreato as a founding team member.

She specialises in the moment where brand identity becomes motion — taking a static visual system and finding the choreography that expresses its personality across social, broadcast, and digital environments. Her tools are After Effects, Cinema 4D, and Rive for web-native animations.

Yuki is also the studio’s primary creative voice on visual language, often serving as an internal creative director on projects where motion is a primary deliverable.

Strengths

Skills + specialties.

After Effects 97%
Cinema 4D 88%
Rive 82%
Adobe Illustrator 90%
Storyboarding 92%
Sound Design 70%

Specialties

  • Motion Design
  • After Effects
  • Cinema 4D
  • 3D Animation
  • Brand Motion

Journey

Experience.

Work

  1. 2015 – Present

    Motion Director & 3D Lead

    Kreato Studio

    Leads all motion and 3D output. Developed the studio's motion design methodology, built the client brief-to-delivery workflow, and grown the motion discipline from one person to a team of three.

  2. 2011 – 2015

    Senior Motion Designer

    AOI Pro. (Tokyo)

    Produced motion graphics for commercial broadcast clients including automotive, FMCG, and technology brands. Lead animator on two nationally broadcast campaigns for Toyota and Panasonic.

  3. 2009 – 2011

    Junior Animator

    Dentsu Creative (Tokyo)

    Motion and print production across integrated advertising campaigns for major Japanese consumer brands.

Education

  1. 2005 – 2009

    BA Visual Media / Animation

    Tama Art University, Tokyo

Static design makes a promise. Motion delivers on it. The two should always be conceived together.

Get in touch

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