Dr. Mohamed Sobaih has 20 years of worldwide teaching and industry experience in the field of directing 2D and 3D animation.
He is a former Toon Boom business developer and an international trainer from 2008 to 2012. In 2021 he was nominated for the Parallel Shows Program within the “Saudi Cinema Program” at the Seventh Saudi Film Festival. Dr. Sobaih is the winner of the 48 project film festival Durban 2015. He was listed in the final election at “2º Floripa Que Horror!" film festival. His other credits also include International Fantastic Film Festival- Brazil” , “Sessions By Lift-Off Global Network- London”, “Animae Caribe, International Animation & Digital Media Festival” , “Heroes International Film Festival- Italy ”.” LogoLAGOS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION, LIFANIMA, “Animae ”, RISING OF LUSITANIA - ANIMADOC FILM and others.
Some of Dr. Sobaih's industry contributions and professional experience are listed below:
- 2021 Independent animation Director – “Stay Safe” short animated movie 3:00 2021 Independent Animation Director –“ the bottle” short animated movie Stop motion 3:30 2017 Animation director – lead Animator at the CFAD- Durban- South Africa
- 2016 Animation director – Animator at the national Film Center- Cairo- Egypt
- 2015 Animation Director and Story Board Artiest at Iqunat Studio KS
- 2012 – 2013 Animation Director & consultant / Animatix Studio – Guyana – South America Developed clear and strategic vision and plan to achieve studio goals and setting up the first animation Studio in Guyana. Supervise and train new and current staff.
- 2008 - December 2012 Toon Boom Business Developer and Animation Consultant Designed, implemented and managed different kind of trainings according to the client pack ground. Worked with Creative Directors to ensure the right pipelines for production and help animators to have a better understanding of Toon Boom technology. Gave worldwide training to different Schools, Universities and Training Centers on Toon Boom Technology (Egypt, France, South America, South Africa, Ethiopia, Nairobi, Syria, Saudi Arabia, AUE
