I’m Yuji Katayama Braga de Carvalho, a 2D character artist and illustrator with 14 years of experience across comics, concept art, character design, and original IP development. I founded ByteNeko Studios and built a production color pipeline modeled on Korean and Chinese studio practices, including HSV-locked palettes per material, hue-shift methodology, and lighting condition color scripting. I created Red Bloom, an original transmedia IP in active development, and earned an Honor Mention at the Silent Manga Audition Contest in 2022.
I thrive on building cohesive visual systems—from character design to UI and environment assets—driven by world-building and narrative. I’m currently leading art direction for Red Bloom and SAGE (Unity) and developing long-form transmedia storytelling with bilingual output and collaborations across regions.