Hi, I'm Riley.

Motion designer, animator and occasional sound nerd. I make brands and products feel alive — one frame at a time.

Portrait of Riley Okafor at the animation desk Berlin · Studio Loop
The story

From flipbooks to frame-perfect brand films.

I started Loop after nine years moving between broadcast studios, a fintech in-house team and a scrappy explainer shop. Along the way I learned that motion is never decoration — it's how a brand earns attention and keeps it.

Today I work with founders, marketing leads and creative directors who need work that moves with intent: launch films, product explainers, title sequences and the kind of UI motion that makes an app feel premium. I handle the whole pipeline — concept, design, animation and sound — so the timing stays tight from first storyboard to final render.

  • Direction-led, story-first animation
  • Delivery in every format your channels need
  • Clear comms and dates that actually hold
Toolkit

Tools of the trade

The software I live in daily — plus the bits that glue a project together from brief to broadcast.

  • After Effects
  • Cinema 4D
  • Figma
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Illustrator
  • Photoshop
  • Octane Render
  • Lottie
  • Audition
  • Blender
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Rive
Path

A timeline in motion

2022 — Now

Founder & Motion Lead

Loop (independent studio)

Leading brand films, explainers and motion systems for fintech, entertainment and SaaS clients across three continents.

2019 — 2022

Senior Motion Designer

Nimbus (in-house creative)

Built the company's first motion system and shipped 80+ product films, ad cuts and event titles.

2017 — 2019

Animator

Northwind Studio

Animated documentary title sequences and broadcast packaging for streaming and TV clients.

2015 — 2017

Junior Designer

Verve Collective

Cut my teeth on social explainers and the kind of fast turnarounds that teach you timing for life.

01

Timing over flourish

The best frame is the one that lands on the beat. I cut to feeling, not to filler.

02

Systems, not one-offs

I leave clients with reusable motion kits so their brand keeps moving without me in the room.

03

Clear from kickoff

Storyboards, dates and a single source of truth. No surprises, no scope drift.

By the numbers

The short version

9+Years animating
240+Films delivered
60+Happy clients
3Motion awards

Let's make something move.

If your brand or product needs energy, rhythm and a point of view, I'd love to hear about it.