Amr Abdelhamed

Art Director / CG Supervisor / Animation TD

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
13 years experience in 3D and post production for media, commercials, TV branding and motion picture production.
Qualifications and talents required for making high-end quality animation for film and television.

Work Experience

METAphrenie

CG-Supervisor, Animation TD, Creative

design, post-production company
June 2009 - Present Dubai, United Arab Emirates

OTV

Creative Director, Animation Supervisor

Channel
August 2008 - April 2009 Cairo, Egypt

FOX International

Freelance Creative, Concept Designer, Promo Producer

TV Channel
March 2008 - April 2009 Cairo, Egypt

Graphic Aroma

Animation Supervisor, Creative Director, Character TD

design, post-production company
February 2005 - May 2008 Egypt

Education

Faculty Of Fine Arts

Bachelor of Graphic Design "Printed Design" department

May 1996 - June 2001 Cairo, Egypt

Orman International School

GCSE’s High School Education

May 1992 - June 1996 Cairo, Egypt

Languages

Arabic (Native),
English (Fluent),
German (Conversational),

Awards

PromaxBDA Awards

Drugs - Best Public Service Announcement

2008

PromaxBDA Awards

Film Piracy - Best Public Service Announcement

2008

PromaxBDA Awards

Socca Stars - Best mixed media animation

2006

Skills

Adob Photoshope, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Illustrator, Boujou, Houdini, MAYA, Mental Ray, Nuke, PF Track, Real Flow, Render Man, Synth Eyes,

What I do:

- CG Supervisor can mange team and schedule for production pipeline.
- Storyboard and Concept Design for projects, channel branding and TV commercials.
- Animation TD, long experience working with character animation projects from rigging and skinning to final animation for tv commercials, online series and productions.
- nDynamics, nCloth, Fur, Hair - Maya Fluid simulation and RealFlow.
-Flexibility in jumping between 3d/2d software to optimize pipeline schedule with maximum quality.
-Nuke, After FX compositing skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Creating and developing Storyboard, Concept Design for projects, channel
branding and TV commercials.
2. Identify, define, prioritize and implement specific creative and production
workflow process steps which will enhance the production creative tools.
3. Create, develop and build consensus between Technology, Artists and Production
Management to assist the Director to realize his vision.
4. Set goals for Production Management to successfully manage the day-to-day
production needs in a manner that instills trust and confidence from the
Producers and Directors, Day-to-day production management should include an
effective process for communicating required staffing changes and judgments
with some mechanism for planning, forecasting and ultimately delivering on
potential staffing scenarios for anticipated work.
5. Make sure that production pipeline and time frame is safe for client schedule,
responsible to deliver highend quality to satisfy the client expectations.
6. Setting plans for check points, meetings, PPM, approvals easy to client to take
decisions, set delivery strategy and toolkit materials in all kind to technical
format needed by agency or client.
7. Managing 3d and 2d teams and schedule for production pipeline, and be involved
in every single shot from day one to end of production and final delivery.

Art Skills:

- Story boarder
- Character Designer
- Animation TD
- Layout and pre-visualization
- Graphic Designer
- Key Animator

3D/Maya Skills:

- Animation TD
- Skeleton solution
- Ragging
- Skinning weights
- Modeling
- nCloth
- Krakatoa plugin
- Facial expressions
- 2D rendering skill using Maya scripts
- Maya cloth, fur, hair system
- Management sequence caching files
- Boujou and PF-Track skills
- 3D/2D Tracking skills Boujou and PF-Track skills
- Maya Fluid
- Maya Bifrost

Compositing skills:

- 2d/3d compositing – tracking skills with After Effects.
- Motion Graphics, promos, animated logos, working with advanced plug-ins from ((Trapcode)) family like 3D_Stroke, Echospace, Particular, Shape Shade, and Shine.
- VFX Artist working with advanced plug-ins for After Effects like Cycore FX, Genarts Sapphire Plug-in, Reel Smart Motion Blur and CC.
- Color Key, Key Light, working in many commercials with Green/blue screens, and artistic eye high sensitivity to extract small details.
- All most apple to finalize my render works from 3D in layers and passes and mange these box containers of Images to be composite in controllable way to get effects like ((Color, Occlusion, Shadows, Specular, Defuse, ZDepth, Normal Maps)).
- Professional working with 3D compositing projects, and has long experience with technical transfer data between 3d software and 2d software like transfer camera information, light setup, and animated layers and objects from Maya to After FX or from After FX to Maya.

- 3D elements created in 3D Maya and need to render in After FX, so Import the poly Objects to After FX, texture it, shade it, animate it, put your camera and render it.