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Motion Animator & Graphics / Packaging Designer

Mika Tanisaki

Santa Monica, CA
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    I am a graduate of Art Center of Design in Pasadena, with a BFA in photography, and a Design Communication Arts Certificate at UCLA Extension, with an emphasis in motion graphics. Please view my website: www.mikacreative.com for more projects.

  • Education
    • DESIGN COMMUNICATION ARTS
      UCLA EXTENSION
      2007 - 2009
    • BFA PHOTOGRAPHY
      Art Center College of Design
      1997 - 2000
  • Experience
    • Freelance Graphic Designer
      Bogota Latin Bistro
      Mar 2010 - Present (16 years 3 months)
      Designing and branding a NYC restaurant’s T Shirts, logos,
      menus, promotional, and signature sauce labels.
      http://bogotabistro.com/
    • Motion Graphics Animator
      Fulcrum Labs
      Los Angeles, CA
      May 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 7 months)
      Designing in Adobe Illustrator and animating in After Effects for educational online courses. Segmented shots to be edited into videos based on scripts written by producers for various college classes. Also create original company library assets for animations. Meet weekly within teams for review and revisions
    • Freelance Motion Graphics / Graphic Designer
      Late Bloomer Show
      Apr 2012 - Dec 2015 (3 years 8 months)
      Branding, design and animation for the
      “Late Bloomer Kaye Kittrell” web series.
      http://latebloomershow.com/
      http://www.youtube.com/user/kittrellkaye/featured
    • Packaging Designer
      D.L. & Company
      Los Angeles, CA
      Mar 2013 - May 2014 (1 year 2 months)
      Designing and branding for a luxury high-end candle and gifting company. Responsible for: conceptualizing, mocking-up, photoshoping new product development, create packaging production files for overseas printers and seasonal product lookbook catalogs. Also photographing and retouching finished product for print and web.
    • Freelance Jr. Art Director
      Canyon Design Group
      Oct 2012 - Oct 2012
      Concept, design, and created entertainment poster campaigns,
      DVD amarays, and trade advertisements.
    • Freelance Motion Graphics Animator
      Spiritclips
      Jan 2011 - Mar 2012 (1 year 2 months)
      Animated, designed, pitched, and directed short movies and
      e-cards exclusively for spiritclips.com.
    • UGA Intern Designer for Food Packaging
      Disney Consumer Products
      Sep 2009 - Mar 2010 (6 months)
      Assisted Lead Designers of the Food, Pets, Health and Beauty
      Department. Designed packaging pitches, developed new
      product concepts, researched current packaging trends for
      licensees, and implemented internal graphic presentations for
      Disney.
  • Awards

    UCLA Extension Design Communication Arts Certificate

  • Affiliations

    UCLA Extension

  • Skills
    • Graphic Design
    • Motion Graphics
    • Packaging Design
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