Creative Director and Senior 3D Designer with more than 20 years of excellence in 3D Productions, Concept development, 3D Motion Design, and Look Development. Renowned for a profound dedication to beauty, elegance, grand art and refined aesthetics. Demonstrated success in spearheading high-profile entertainment industry projects. Exceptionally skilled at merging artistic vision with technical proficiency to craft engaging and compelling designs and visual narratives.
Born in Tunisia and raised in Paris, Hatem's artistic journey eventually led him to Los Angeles in 2001, where he has been based ever since.
With his extensive experience and refined sensibilities, Hatem is a truly exceptional creative director, designer, and look development artist. His love for visual storytelling through lighting and composition is outstanding in his work, which draws inspiration from a diverse range of cultures, mediums, art, visual poetry and childhood memories.
Hatem's early dreams were to become a director of photography and his influences are drawn from legends like Henri Alekan and Darius Khondji and from Directors a la Wim Wenders, Terence Malik, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch...
His career path ultimately took him towards the digital realm, where he honed his technical skillset in CGI and 2D designs. However, his love affair with light and visual storytelling never faded away. Over the years, Hatem has donned various hats that utilized his eyes, his heart, and his technical skillset, but lighting and visual storytelling have always held a special place in his heart.
Hatem is always seeking new and exciting collaborations in the fields of Art direction, 3D design, lighting and visual storytelling.
SKILLS: Art direction, design, look dev, lighting, CGI, supervisor, textures, shading, modeling, compositing, pitch frames, pitch book, visual storytelling, photogrammetry, vfx, editing.
APPS: Maya, Vray, Arnold, nuke, after fx, premiere, photoshop, illustrator, mudbox, shotgun