Yusuff Abdurrahman

Creative Designer, Motion Designer and 3D Artist with 7+ years of experience creating static and animated visual content for digital products, brand campaigns, websites, social media and marketing communications. Combines motion graphics, custom illustration, character and look development, typography, colour, composition, 3D visualisation and UI/UX thinking to translate ideas into clear, engaging visual stories. Experienced leading remote creative workflows, adapting concepts across formats and audiences, and delivering polished assets independently and with multidisciplinary creative and technical teams.

Hands-on proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Figma and Framer.

Lead Designer at Pluged (Present)

• Lead the visual identity and creative direction for Pluged's technology platform, website, mobile product and brand communications.
• Direct a multidisciplinary branding team to maintain consistent typography, colour, imagery, composition and brand tone across customer touchpoints.
• Create digital campaign, product and marketing visuals while adapting concepts to different formats, audiences and feedback.
• Designed 75+ production-ready mobile screens and built reusable visual components in Figma and Framer.
• Collaborate with founders, developers and stakeholders to manage multiple briefs from concept through refinement and on-time delivery.

Senior 3D Artist / Designer at Creele Animation Studios (2022-06 – 2025-07)

• Led Character Development and Look Development teams for a Hollywood-quality animated short film.
• Directed multidisciplinary creative workflows and served as final approver for key character and visual assets, maintaining a cohesive style and high visual standard.
• Developed and oversaw modelling, texturing, lighting and rendering work across the animation production process.
• Implemented an industry-standard production pipeline that improved collaboration, review cycles and on-time asset delivery.

3D Designer at MetaMerch

• Modelled, textured, UV-unwrapped and rendered production-ready assets for 50+ commercial merchandise collections.
• Produced product and marketing visuals supporting official 2024 Olympic and Paralympic merchandise and work for Louis Vuitton, The North Face and Morecambe FC.
• Adapted creative concepts to multiple commercial formats while meeting technical specifications, quality standards and aggressive deadlines.

UI/UX Product Designer & Certified Mentor at HNG Tech (2024-08 – 2026-01)

• Designed branded web and mobile experiences alongside software engineers, applying strong hierarchy, typography and layout principles.
• Mentored 200+ designers in visual design, hierarchy, typography and portfolio development.
• Reviewed 70+ design projects and provided actionable feedback that strengthened visual consistency, usability and presentation quality.

Bachelor of Science in Economics – Federal University of Technology Akure

3D Artist Scholar in 3D Art – XMD Academy (2020-07 – 2021-03)