East Side Games
Fady Abuzaher has accumulated valuable work experience in the field of game art and animation. Fady worked as a Senior Game Artist at East Side Games starting in April 2023 and previously held the position of Game Artist at the same company from June 2021 to April 2023. Before joining East Side Games, they freelanced as a Character Animator and Game Artist on Upwork, where they focused on creating game assets, character designs, animation, and stylized portraits. Fady also worked as a Digital Artist at iStoria and Famcare, where they mentored and supervised artists, created digital art and visual content for social media, and developed storyboards and art assets for promotional motion graphics. As a Digital Artist for Famtree App, they created visual content for social media, storyboards, and art assets for promotional motion graphics, as well as visuals for the app and website. Fady's previous experience includes working as an Art Lead at AURA for integrated solutions, where they managed and collaborated with 2D mobile game artists, mentored motion graphics artists, and created assets within Unity and Adobe Suite. Fady also worked as a Game Artist/Animator at Baskalet, where they prepared reference documents for game production, animated 2D characters in Unity, and created 3D and 2D game assets. Fady's career began at Zaitoon Animation & Games, where they worked as a 3D Artist/Animator and was responsible for creating 3D character models and rigs, animating 3D characters, and developing storyboards and animatics for a short film. Additionally, Fady gained experience as an Animation Tutor at DePaul University, providing tutoring services for undergraduate and graduate animation courses and supporting students' academic success. Overall, Fady Abuzaher's work experience demonstrates their expertise in game art, animation, digital art, and mentoring.
Fady Abuzaher pursued their education in Animation by completing a Master of Arts (MA) degree at DePaul University from 2013 to 2015.
East Side Games
East Side Games is a developer and publisher of free to play mobile games. It is focused on making narrative idle games in the business, and creating the technology for developers to tell stories.The company is an independent and profitable game studio with a collaborative, creative, and fun culture. Their games fund all their new projects andits purpose-built technology infrastructure powers its rapid, iterative prototyping, based directly on audience feedback. This allows them to take design ideas to playable releases in days rather than months.ESG currently publishes and operates successful franchise titles including Archer: Danger Phone, Dragon Up: Idle Adventure, The Goldbergs: Back to the 80s, It's Always Sunny: The Gang Goes Mobile, and Trailer Park Boys Grea$y Money.East Side Games was recently recognized on the "Top 50 Mobile Game Makers 2020" list compiled by Pocket Gamer Biz, on the "Canada's Top Small & Medium Employers" list compiled by Canada's Top 100, as well as on the "Canada's Top Growing Companies 2019" list compiled by Globe & Mail Report on Business and 2020 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winners.In 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia