Naveed Hussain Email & Phone Number

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• As the Art Director at NASFIA, I lead both remote and in-house creative teams in crafting high-quality 2D animation and motion graphics for diverse projects. My core responsibilities include:
• Visual Direction: Designing and directing the look and feel of 2D animated storybooks, ensuring a cohesive and engaging visual narrative.
• Team Leadership: Providing constructive feedback to illustrators, 2D animators, and editors to elevate the quality of our creative outputs.
• Project Management: Coordinating and managing ongoing design, animation, and book publishing projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to project goals.
• Talent Acquisition: Approaching, selecting, interviewing, and recruiting candidates for animation and illustration roles to build a strong, dynamic team.
• Client Engagement: Writing detailed client proposals and developing proof of concepts to attract and secure new business opportunities.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Developed the 2d animation pipeline, process & streamlined the workflow for the production of 2d animated books for the lambkinz app.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• I teach undergraduate students in Communication Studies and Film, focusing on practical, project-based learning across the following courses:
• Concept & Content Development: Fostering creativity and creative thinking for generating new ideas across media, social media, and video.
• Art Direction: Guiding students in visual styling and design for campaigns, sets, and films.
• Copywriting: Teaching the art of persuasive writing for media and advertising.
• Design Thinking: Encouraging innovative problem-solving using a human-centered approach to design.Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver interactive, hands-on learning experiences with timed quizzes and real-world projects.

Consulting on Art Direction, Animation Production, Visual Development & Storytelling

• Conceptualizing ideas & scenarios for translating best selling books into visual narratives.
• Developing storyboards & sequential imagery for whiteboard videos.
• Compiling & developing black & white illustrations for 2D animation.
• Generating style frames to create visual feel for short films & narratives.

Karachi, Pakistan

• Visualizing & concepting characters, environments, props & visual effects for 3D animated films.
• Researching & exploring various visual/art styles to fit project requirements.
• Drawing, Designing & Painting various assets based on the story for 3D modelling.
• Storyboarding & visualizing entire scenes from written film scripts to sequential imagery with multiple cameras, POVs, dynamics, expressions & movement.
• Polypainting & texturing UV-ed 3D characters & props for film production pipeline.
• Planning & designing promotional material for outdoor & social media campaigns for film projects.Film CreditsSitara: Let Girls Dream (A Netflix Original) - Concept Artist - 2019-203 Bahadur: Rise Of the Warriors.

Pakistan

• At IQRA University, I taught courses in Concept Art and Animation, providing students with a strong foundation in both the creative and technical aspects of storytelling and design. My responsibilities included guiding.
• Concept & Storytelling: Focused on narrative development for media, covering techniques such as the 3-act story structure and the Hero’s Journey, with practical examples from film and television series.
• Digital Sculpting: Taught students to create expressive characters from scratch in ZBrush, including sculpting, posing, and polypainting.
• Concept Art for Animation: Covered character, environment, and prop design for animation narratives, exploring storylines, mythologies, and world-building to create concept art that communicates ideas.Key.
• Designed and delivered interactive, project-based lessons to enhance both technical and creative skills.
• Provided hands-on guidance and feedback to ensure students' understanding of course materials.

Karachi

• Introducing design students to Fundamentals & Principles of Graphic Design & Imaging Editing.
• Lecturing students on typography, layout design, illustration, branding & identity design.
• Demonstrating students about audio & video editing workflows using industry standard programs.
• Training students about chroma keying, video composting & motion graphics for video content.
• Designing relevant exercises & assignments in areas of illustration, layout design & image editing.
• Preparing & executing seminars & workshops on numerous aspects of multimedia & design.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Graduated With 3.7 Cgpa

Activities and Societies: Photography Society Video Editor for Convocation 2011 Photographer for Calender 2011

Higher Secondary School, Pre-Engineering