Zaheer Mukhtar
3D Graphics Designer/ VFX Artist/ Director
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I am a 3D graphics designer,visual effects artist and film director. My passion for graphics started back in 1999 and i worked for Games, Films, Ads and Print Media. I had the honor of working with some prestigious Gaming companies and TV channels. The last few years professional work experience is with gaming industry, mainly responsible for creating 3D graphics, trailers, intros and teasers.
My Master degree in computer sciences defines my role as a technical artist. Besides using a wide range of 2D/3D/Editing/Compositing tools, i have worked on some of the best game engines in the market.
I have received many awards for my short films and graphics in various national level competitions.
3DSMAX
Photoshop
Zbrush
UDK
Unity 3D
After Effects
Premier Pro
Ulead Video Studio
Keyshot
nDo
DDO
Languages
English
Urdu
Pushto
Work​
experience​
3D Specialist Fusion SD Dubai
April 2014 - present
Responsible for creating the promos for the products including creating the idea and excuting it. I have to define the pipeline of how the project wil be carried out from start till end. Also, creatng ideas for new creative products related to field of graphics.
Graphics Team Lead at weRplay
​NOV 2011 - April 2014
Defining pipeline of graphics development for games, including lighting, texturing and modeling style. Managing team of artists and guiding them for proper art development. Creating animated logos and in-game cinematic for our games.
Senior Computer Graphics Artist. GameView Studios
JUNE 2011 - Nov 2011
Modeling 3d graphics for games and worked on UDK as a developer and artist for developing a 3d game for mobile. Also worked on animated logos for GVS.
Senior Software Engineer. SEECS-NUST
Aug 2010- June 2011
Creating 3d models and programming their behavior for a medical simulator using open source library SOFA and 3dsmax.
Education
FAST- NUCES (National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences)
MS Computer Science Sept 2009 – June 2011
Specialization: Computer Graphics
Subjects of interest: Computer Vision, Computer graphics
FAST- NUCES (National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences)
BS Computer Science (Gold Medalist) 2004-2008
Final Year Project: 3D game development using 3D state engine. 3D state is an efficient engine for developing games, simulators and trainers.