SUMMARY OF SKILLS:-

Passionate and driven animation filmmaker looking to gain experience in story development, production design and visualization. Also seeking experience in character animation and performance. Experienced in 2D character animation, film production and story development. Well rounded in pre-production aspects such as storyboarding, layout planning, digital painting, visual development, and character design. Familiar with 3D character modeling, rigging and texturing. Familiar with environmental 3D modeling, Texturing, lighting and asset transfer between Maya and Unity

ABOUT ME:-

My name is Kamel Altamimi, I am an animation filmmaker born and raised in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. I am currently a student at DePaul University where I am pursuing my MFA in Animation.

I was always passionate about animation from the animation film influences that reached me as I was growing up, I was thrilled by the vibrancy of the colors, and the surprisingly complex themes and raw sense of adventure and emotional power animation can provide through its imagery.

Little did I know however, that the detours and swerves life can deal you took me on quite the adventure of my own. I had taken my bachelors degree in a pre-revolution Cairo at the American University in Cairo. after working for a few years I had struck out to train in the United Arab Emirates In the Cartoon Network Animation Academy. I had also been awarded an internship at Cartoon Network Arabia studios in Abu Dhabi. Afterwards, I had firsthand experience developing and pitching, networking, putting animation teams together, these were important learning experiences that hardened my resolve to become a great animated filmmaker.

After Exhausting the opportunities in UAE, the door to higher education in the United States opened. I was awarded a government scholarship and was accepted into the MFA animation program at DePaul University where I am currently studying. I had become vice president of the animation club where I share with others my passion for animation and hold lectures, interviews, tutorials etc. and I had been hired by the university to become a student monitor for the Life drawing sessions to help other students improve their craft.I topped off my first school year with my biggest personal achievement, in which I successfully led a team of students to direct and produce a hand animated, four-minute animated short titled 'Shine'. this short was made using a mixture of FLASH, Photoshop, and After Effects. 

My Immediate goal is to better learn the art and craft of visual storytelling and filmmaking. My key areas of interest is in story development, Character Animation, World-Building and Character Design, Film Directing and Production, Visual Design and cool new ways to animate and tell a story.

Above all, I hope I can make animated films that enrich peoples lives, that provides candy for the eyes, and medicine for the soul.