Creative Lead at The Game Loop

Waqar Rasool

karachi, Pakistan

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Waqar’s neat aesthetic sense combined with his great story writing skills bring ideas to life. With exposure to advertising industry, interactive media, social media and game development, he is a single source of inspiration and direction when it comes to creativity and design.

Along a Major in Print Design, he is also an expert in Illustration, digital art, 2d Animation, Mobile and Web design.
Education
- B.Design Communication Design
  
  National College of Arts, Lahore
  
  2007 - 2011
Experience
- Creative Lead
  
  The Game Loop
  
  Aug 2012 - Present (12 years 4 months)
  
  - Think of new ideas for casual games
  - Prepare concept art and proposals for any selected ideas
  - Taking on the projects Art Direction
  - Developing Environments and characters for the game
  - Overlooking all animations involved
  - Branding. Logo etc
  - Designing and managing all documentation
  - Having Fun! :)
- Art Director
  
  Avenue Social Inc.
  
  Oct 2011 - Aug 2012 (10 months)
  
  - Visualize the whole project according to Project scope.
  - Develop and create original Design Language for the Project at hand.
  - Direct a team of creative designers to effectively manage the workflow.
  - Communicate with clients throughout the project.
  - Stay in touch with the programming team for complete design integration in the required digital environment, (web, i-phone, i-pad etc)
  - hand over the final designs on time to the respective Project manager.
  - Begin work on the next Project :)
- Creative Executive
  
  IAL- Saatchi & Saatchi
  
  Mar 2011 - Oct 2011 (7 months)
  
  Core Responsibilities include
  - Decoding brief given by clients
  - Providing Creative ideas for respective brief
  - Develop and create a 360 degree communication campaign around the given brief (including TVCs, Radio, print,Packaging and digital).
  - Overlooking and managing the Art team assigned to the project.
  - Presenting final output to the client.
Awards

Distinction in college Thesis Project -

Principal's Honour Award in studies at college
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