Tell us a little about your background: I'm a freelance animation designer for TV-commercial and web.
Design Education: Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan
How did you start out as an artist and designer? I started the work for animation designer in filmmaker's company in Tokyo. After that I went to Italy and stayed 2 years for web designer.
What inspires you? friends, movies, music...
Describe your style of design: Simple moving in our life
What is your all time favorite movie and why? My favorite movie.....it's very difficult to choose only one...uhh...smoke, Bagdad cafe, il postino (Italian)....I love these movies because I feel the life in these.
What do you do besides design? cooking
Where do you see yourself in five years? I don't know.
What is more important for a designer, artistic qualities or design education? Choose one: We need 2 eyes when we see our works... emotional eye and cool eye... I think.
Do you think that Flash is cool or overused? cool...
Do you prefer technologically advanced sites or sites with simple but good design? simple one.
Can you share any tips for new designers: If somebody want.
What was your first experience with Flash? I made a web site for the company I was working.
I noticed you like to snap photos, is that just a hobby of yours or would you like to one day be a professional photographer? Just a hobby
What's the significance behind the name "neve-b?" Neve-b [neve bianca] means "white snow" in Italian. And my name [yuki] also means "White snow" in Japanese...
Thanks for taking time to do this interview, any last comments you would like to share? I hope someone make me a big surprise with new flash world!
“A little while after the release of the first tokyoplastic; it was getting 40,000 hits a day, which was very surprising and cool and made us happy and we received a lot of enquiries from potential clients. Prior commitments meant that it took a whole year just to get to the position where we were able to start accepting the offers.”
“Style is a good thing - but if anything I would like to be as diverse as possible - stylistically. To corner oneself into a certain style only means that one is limited. It's the age-old debate over specialization versus generalization. I find that as a designer - if a client were to present a problem to me, I need to be fully capable of solving that problem in any way possible..”
“I've just been drawing like mad since I was two feet tall, and haven't stopped. When I was younger I was really into cartoons (I'm sure most kids were), and I used to sit in front of the TV for hours drawing what I saw. Then I started making my own characters and drew them in scenarios with the characters I saw in TV. Then I discovered comics and it was all over, ALL of my money went towards those for
the next 8 years....”
