Hellot’s pretty hard to describe myself – even harder when you need to be concise! My name is Mohammad Ali Shakeri (You can call me Ali), I’m an artist originally from Persia (Iran) but spend the last 8 years of my life in Thailand, currently working as Film/TVC/VFX Director and I love art. Doesn’t matter if it’s digital art, traditional art, 3d or 2d, animation or music… I simply love art. And that passion has always motivated me to keep pushing my limits and to always be looking for more knowledge, improving myself as an artist.I’m a self-taught artist – every skill that I have developed studying by myself and from my extensive industry experience. I’m responsive, strong-minded, dedicated to my work and most important: I’m adaptable. Learning new tools, pipelines, workflows or techniques was never a problem for me. Everything new to me I face as a new challenge, so when I learn something, I try to apply it to my work immediately, master it and evolve it.One of the greatest achievements in my career is that I always avoid the comfort zone. Being good at something doesn’t mean that you can be satisfied with it. There’s always more that you can achieve, that you can improve… there’s always more that you can do to achieve a better result. For example, If you are satisfied with the quality, you can try to become faster.Like I’ve said before, I’m passionate about what I do – and there is no way to keep a long face while you’re doing something enjoyable! So even with short deadlines and working under pressure, I always try to keep the good mood in everything I do. If you’re working with passion and joy, there’s no way to get bothered with what you’re doing.I’ve been through variety field in this industry (Advertising, Animation, VFX, Game, Visualization...) and I have enjoyed each and one of them. Each experience taught me a great lesson. And I’m using those experiences in every next project.Thank you so much for your time.