Showreel 2025
Here are some of the works I really enjoyed creating as a freelancer, either with awesome clients or just by myself. I'm so grateful that I could work on so many cool projects since I started as a freelancer and a huge thank you to all the people who worked with me. Really excited about what will come next!
Please contact me if you have any project I can help with!
00:00 - Motion Reel Intro - Direction / Design / Animation
00:05 - Discovery - Direction / Design / Animation
00:11 - Dragon - Direction / Design / Animation
00:14 - Hatched - Direction / Design / Animation
00:15 - Tetris - Direction / Design / Animation
00:17 - Design Matters - Direction / Design / Animation
00:23 - NIMONA - end credit design / animation
00:28 - Doom - Direction / Design / Animation
00:33 - The Shameless Fund - Design / Animation
00:38 - This world with you - Direction / Design / Animation
00:40 - Friendly Shield - Design / Animation
00:44 - Shishimai boy - Design
00:46 - The year of Snake - Design
00:47 - Akaoni - Design
00:49 - One Love - Design / Animation
00:51 - Airphoria - Animation
00:52 - Move Forward - Design / Animation
00:54 - Horimon - Design
00:56- Design Matters - Direction / Design / Animation
01:03 - Motion Reel Outro - Direction / Design / Animation
Making of opening
Story
When I moved from Japan to the UK, I didn’t miss it for a long time. I felt quite distanced from it—especially after my experience in the commercial industry in Tokyo, where long hours often meant staying overnight at the office.
In 2025, I returned to Ginza, the area where I used to work. At the time, it hadn’t been a place I felt connected to, but this visit was different. I experienced a strong sense of nostalgia. The narrow buildings, independent shops, izakayas, bars, vending machines, and dense layering of signage felt distinct and deeply atmospheric—very different from the cityscape in London.
Now, places in Japan carry a sense of nostalgia for me. That feeling became the starting point for creating the opening of my showreel, inspired by the streets of Ginza.
The original storyboard was a bit different from the final. It was more about the camera motion and the fire effect which I decided to change once I came up the idea of kaiju sneezing accidentally.
Fake Fisheye effect
I wanted to create a super dynamic, fun, heavy fisheye lens effect—how did I do that? Instead of using an actual fisheye lens, which would heavily distort the kaiju and the title, I modelled the buildings in a distorted way. This way, I didn’t need to worry about distorting the characters or the readability of the titles. It was a new challenge, and I’m happy with the result.
Character+props
Comp
