Experience

• Creative Director | 3D Artist at Self Employed

  Dubai, AE

  February 2017 - Present

  - Creating high-quality 3D characters and 3D assets for games and 3D animation production.
  
  - Creating and lighting 3D environments for 3D animation and Real-time applications.
  
  - High-Quality NFT 3D Character Modeling, Texturing, and Rendering.
  
  - Motion Graphics, Explainers, and infographics.
  
  - 3D Garments and fashion creation.
  
  - 3D Cinematic direction and creation.
  
  - Digital grooming and animation.

• Creative Director at NewBoy FZCO

  Dubai, United Arab Emirates

  September 2013 - February 2017

  - Managing NewBoy's creative team.
  
  - Supervising and managing the production and post-production process for the 3 production pipelines, Live-Action, Animation, and Motion Graphics.
  
  - Directing Live Production, Animation & Motion Graphics projects.
  
  - Perform professional oral and written communications with other departments and external parties.
  
  - Understanding the goals and hints of each project, thus directing and managing team members in the production.
  
  - Supervising concept development by organizing and managing brainstorming sessions.
  
  - Pitching newly developed ideas and concepts to concerned parties.
  
  - Finalizing camera angles and story flow “ Animatics ”.
  
  - Meeting NewBoy’s quality standards, mission statement, and child concern.
  
  - Ensuring delivery dates as stated in the production plan.
  
  - Performing yearly Performance Evaluations to the team members.
  
  - Hiring new talents and expanding the team services in terms of quantity, quality, and types of services.
  
  - Utilizing and integrating new technologies into the department’s production pipeline.
  

• Creative Director | Animation & TV Production. at NewBoy FZCO

  January 2010 - September 2013

  -In response to NewBoy’s strategy of producing the company’s TVCs in-house, our Production Pipeline has expanded to include various types of Live Shooting techniques including Chroma, 3D/Live mixing, and Color Correction.
  
  - The same job description of the previous position applies to this new position, but with the new involvement of a new Live Production Pipeline.

• Manager, Animation Department. at NewBoy FZCO

  January 2004 - December 2009

  - Directing 3D and 2D animated projects.
  
  - Managing a team of 20 Creative artists.
  
  - Supervising concept development through Brain Storming sessions,
  
  - Pitching ideas for approval.
  
  - Supervising the production process according to the Animation Production Pipeline.
  
  - Meeting delivery dates.
  
  - Performing yearly writing and oral Performance Evaluation for team members.
  
  - Staying up to date with the latest software and hardware releases, thus revealing new Computer graphics opportunities.

• 3D Artist | Generalist at NewBoy FZCO

  January 2001 - December 2003

  - The Idea of NewBoy hiring me at that time was to face the challenge of creating 3D video clips for its famous character Fulla, and the result was the release of the first Fulla clip, which became popular later on.
  
  - Developing concepts for new 3D projects.
  
  - Executing those concepts into final videos.
  
  - Modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting and rendering, and compositing for approved projects.
  
  - Modeling detailed characters to be manufactured into real toys.

• Art Director. at TBZ International

  January 1994 - December 2001

  - Handling advertising campaigns.
  
  - Logo design and identity creation.
  
  - Press ads, brochures, posters, web design … etc.
  
  - Supervising the Color Separation process.
  
  - Supervising printing process, and ensuring required color quality is met.

• Air Brush Artist | Illustrator at TBZ International

  January 1990 - December 1993

  - Creating Airbrush illustrated Greeting cards, wedding cards, posters, stickers … etc.
  
  - Different techniques were used: airbrush, watercolor, pencil sketching… etc.