Our Main Talents

Come and meet the artists

■Akihisa Kaneya

CGI Senior Creator

CGI Designer

Born in Tōkyō

After majoring in graphic at Ochanomizu Art College, worked in an advertising design production company, after which he joined JDI.

As an experienced graphic designer he is active as a CG creator who has both advanced technique and flexible expressive power in a great variety of genres.

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Message

Language： Japanese

"Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree,
preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest."
I'd like to have the sensibility to be able to capture and feel the entire scene from the tree to the forest while carefully taking in the details even of the veins of a leaf.

■Manuel Mousiol

CGI Senior Creator

Leading 3D Artist

Born in Frankfurt, Germany

After majoring at Frankfurt University in Arts & New Media/Japanese Studies,he joined JDI.

In the EU, he worked on videos, photos and graphic design.
His fine sensitivity and exact expressiveness have been highly-esteemed as a creator by our clients.
At the moment, he focuses on our 3DCG products as the cornerstone of CGI.

Manuel Mousiol

Message

Languages：Japanese/ English / German

Less things are more powerful than pictures telling stories.
We draw inspiration from them, they can excite us and soothe us.
To be able to reach peoples minds and hearts, these pictures need to be surprising and beautiful,then they will draw you in.
It is most amazing when you create from scratch, put in all your sense, taste and innovation and have something in the end,
that has the potential to be understood by millions of people.
The ultimate work: to move, entertain and communicate.

■Kaoru Inde

CGI Senior Creator

CGI Production Support

Born in Tōkyō

After majoring in at Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, worked in an advertising photograph production company, after which she joined JDI.

She has been producing abstract paintings in her private life. Regardless of the genre, she is well-versed in wide variety of arts.
By applying this sensibility in daily visual imaging production, she is active as a flexible CG Creator who has a huge pool of ideas.

Karou Inde

Message

Language：Japanese

I am always working very carefully with pictures.
Because you can understand the theme and the world view when you discover a picture's strength and delicacies, whatever genre it is. To me it is important to be able to produce higher quality productions, finding the best way to make the picture stand out more by hearing the story from the picture speaking to me.

■Yasuko Ueda

Executive Director

Producer

Born in Hyōgo Prefecture

Studied at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

14 years ago she entered the production of digitally manipulated advertising graphics by establishing together with representative director Kataoka Hidenori the company "Nihon Dejitaru Gazou".
Today she is the executive director of the newly born company JDI. Her interests are photography and painting.
Especially the works of Claude Monet are finding her deep admiration.

Yasuko Ueda

Painter of light and color - Claude Monet
Twilight Venezia, 1908

Favorite quote

Languages：Japanese/ English

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

■Hidenori Kataoka

Special Executive Adviser

CGI Creative Director

Producer

Born in Tōkyō

After majoring at Nihon University Fine Arts department,

Entrance into letter pressing company TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD., photography department.
After working at advertising companies and production companies,
foundation of the advertising imaging production company "Nihon Dejitaru Gazou" in November 1996.
Today he is supporting the new JDI in every aspect as special executive adviser.

Kataoka Hidenori

「Spring Visitor」　2011

Since being one of the pioneers in the Japanese advertising industry with the establishment of a digital image production,
always studying the newest digital technology and realizing a great variety of ideas, a long time passed. 
However, the policy to always bring CG to the state of a photograph, with it's delicacy and taste, keeps living on.
 Simultaneously the photos he keeps taking as his personal works are by now exceeding thousands. 
They are all the result of the collective lens he developed by himself 30 years ago. 
Most of the beauty of the light and shadow in his works is further enhanced by the unique look of this lens, transforming them with a soft focus in pictures with a wonderful atmosphere.