CG & Visual Art Studio — Kyoto, Japan

Felt Before
It's
Understood.

We craft visual expression that speaks before words do — images that shift atmosphere and give form to what's hard to say.

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Work

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Reel — Client line ver.2026

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Reel — Japanism line ver.2026

Reel · 2026
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Reel — Artistic & Tech line ver.2026

Reel · 2026
ISUZU - Japan Mobility Show 2025 Commercial
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ISUZU — Japan Mobility Show 2025

Exhibition visuals · 2025
三代目 J SOUL BROTHERS 15TH ANNIVERSARY STADIUM LIVE Experiment
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JSB 15th Anniversary Stadium Live

Live video production · 2025
祇園祭ギャラリー 現代の洛中洛外図屏風 Art & Install
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Gion Festival Gallery — Contemporary Rakuchu Rakugai

Exhibition visuals · 2016
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Vision

We approach visual expression through three axes — inner states, outer atmosphere, and the dimension of time. Each shapes how people feel, perceive, and live.

01 — Inner

Wellbeing

Visual expression as care. We begin by asking what state we want people to feel — then work backward with the client to shape the image. Reducing anxiety, restoring calm, creating moments of ease in medical, public, and everyday spaces.

02 — Outer

Experience

Visual expression as atmosphere. We shape the sensory quality of a space — how it feels to enter, to wait, to move through. CG and visual art as tools for enriching the environment around people.

03 — Time

Temporal
Design

Visual expression as the design of time itself. We work with duration, rhythm, and pacing — shaping how long a moment feels, when stillness arrives, and how motion can make time meaningful.

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Academic Connections

We are building a research layer beneath our practice — connecting these three axes to design studies, cognitive science, and environmental psychology. Studio intuition, grounded in inquiry.

In development
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Studio

A boutique studio
with a long view.
The work begins
before the
brief does.

chidori graph is a CG and visual art studio based in Kyoto. We work across commercial production, live events, art installations, and personal research — always with the same attention to atmosphere, rhythm, and craft.

Akinori Ueno

上野 あきのり

President · VFX Supervisor · Artist

Graduated from Kobe Design University. Formerly at Shiseido, then Tokyo CG production, now independent in Kyoto. Drawn to asymmetry, matte surfaces, and the invisible rhythms between things.

Eri Ishikawa

石川 江里

Digital Artist

Specialises in effects — building CG imagery that persuades and moves. Always experimenting with what visual weight can do.

Moe Okawa

大川 萌

Digital Artist

Generalist in training — interested in how a single image frame can hold the weight of a whole story.

Miki

Artist

From Ishikawa. Nagoya University of Arts. Develops the visual world of Arte and Polari — a narrative universe where imagination becomes image.

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CG Production Live Events Installation Visual Art

Established

April 2016

Location

Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

Disciplines

CG · Motion · Installation · Visual Art

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News

2026.07.28 Release

Our New Website Is Live

We have relaunched chidorigraph.com with a new design and updated work. The site reflects where we are now — and where we are headed. Thank you for visiting.

ウェブサイトをリニューアルしました。新しいデザインと最新の実績をご覧いただけます。ぜひご覧ください。

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Address

212-2 Owari-cho, Nakagyo-ku,
Kyoto 604-0934, Japan

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Kyoto, Japan · Est. 2016