2025
Shots from music videos, commercials and personal projects: compositing, 3D integration, simulation and CG. Every shot made by me.
Available for freelance / UAE & remote
VFX / CGI / AI / Direction
Fawez Zayati
One shot, a sequence, or the whole campaign.
Selected work
Global brands. Feature film.
AI that holds up.
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Showreels
Two minutes each, last cut mid-2025. The newest work is in the rail.
2025
Every shot on this reel was directed, filmed and lit by me.
What I make
Hire me for the job,
not the job title.
I take work across the whole range, as long as I can do it well and enjoy doing it. If what you need isn't listed, ask anyway.
Commercials & campaigns
Product, environment and full-CG spots, from brief to delivery or dropped into an existing agency pipeline.
See this workMusic videos
Visual effects, CG and finishing. I have directed and shot my own, so I know what a director needs handed back.
See this workFilm & series VFX
Compositing, cleanup, set extension and CG integration on feature and episodic work.
See this workAI & hybrid production
Fully generated or part-generated spots, built with a compositor's control rather than a prompt and a shrug.
See this workPhotoreal CGI & product
Look-dev, lighting and rendering that survives full resolution and a client's zoom.
See this workSingle shots & rescues
One shot that isn't working, a cleanup pass, or a job that needs finishing before a deadline.
Send the shot
Worked on
Brands, artists and productions
my work has gone out on.
Some direct, some through agencies and studios, Publicis Groupe, Optix Dubai and Visioneers among them.
Saudia Airlines
PlayStation
- Huawei
Music videos and visual effects for Maher Zain, BALTI, Harris J, Mesut Kurtis, Swagg Man, Nordo and Jenjoon, and others across Tunisia and the wider MENA region.
- European Union in Tunis
- American Embassy in Tunis
- BrotherHood Art Organization
Approach
One person,
the whole pipeline.
Fewer hand-offs means fewer things lost between them. I can take a job from the brief to the final frame, and pick the method per shot rather than per fashion.
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Brief to final frame
Find the idea, build the CG, comp it, grade it. One person carrying the campaign the whole way.
Press
The one that fooled
the internet.
A three-second shot of a drone Santa beside the Burj Khalifa, made in 2023. It resurfaced two years later, was taken for real, and travelled far enough that Elon Musk reshared it and newsrooms in four countries filed fact-checks. I said publicly that it was mine, and took it down.
- 36M
- views
- 4
- countries ran fact-checks
- TF1FranceInterviewedVÉRIF' : Des drones ont-ils vraiment formé un Père Noël géant dans le ciel de Dubaï ?
- Khaleej TimesUAEFact check: No, Dubai did not have a giant Santa drone show near Burj Khalifa
- Rede Notícia BrasilBrazilVídeo de drones formando Papai Noel em Dubai é computação gráfica
- MENAFNMiddle EastFact Check: No Giant Santa Drone Show Near Burj Khalifa
- News KarnatakaIndiaViral giant Santa near Burj Khalifa debunked as VFX creation
- Gulf Good NewsGulfFact Check: No, Dubai Did Not Host a Giant Santa Drone Show
About
Fawez Zayati
UAE-based, seven years making images. Feature-film visual effects, music videos I directed and shot myself, and campaign CGI at Publicis Groupe for IQOS, Visa, Emirates NBD, Saudia Airlines and Citibank.
I'm a generalist on purpose. Some jobs want a full CG build, some are faster generated and finished by hand, some are footage that needs the effects, the edit and the grade. I'd rather pick the right method for the shot than defend one way of working.
Freelance and taking work now, anywhere in the UAE or remote. Anything from a single difficult shot to a campaign start to finish.
- Based in
- Dubai, UAE
- Working
- Freelance, on-site in the UAE or remote worldwide
- Languages
- Arabic (Native), English (Fluent), French (Professional)
- Comp & finish
- Nuke, After Effects, Fusion, Mocha, PFTrack, DaVinci Resolve
- 3D & CG
- Cinema 4D, Maya, Arnold, Octane, Modelling, Simulation
- Camera
- Operating, Lighting, Framing, Shot planning
- AI
- ComfyUI (LTX, WAN), Kling, Seedance, Nano Banana, Topaz, PixVerse, Trellis, Beeble Studio, DeepFaceLab, FaceFusion, ElevenLabs, ACE-Step, Pinokio, Local model deployment, Custom node graphs
ToolkitWhat it gets made in.
Side quests
Two AI characters, running live.
Self-directed projects where I own every part of the stack: character, music, voice, video, edit and release. Character consistency across a sustained body of work is the hardest unsolved problem in AI video. These exist to prove I can hold it.
Menfi
Tunisian-French artist, based in France
A rapper who doesn't exist. Music videos, shorts and long-form, generated end to end, mostly on local open-source models, from the audio through to the final cut. Released and distributed on all major streaming platforms.YouTube ↗
Zylo Venn
An alien living in New York
A character piece. An outsider narrating conspiracies from inside the city. Built to test sustained personality, voice and face consistency across an ongoing series rather than one-off clips.YouTube ↗
Social
Made for the feed.
Vertical work, built to hold a viewer through the first second. Brand films for wasl and Money Dubai, collaborations through Beki's Word (3M followers) and concepts I make for myself. Real plates shot in Dubai with the CG built on top.
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Huawei Watch GT 7
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Treona
Brand Film / 2024
Kalamantina
Concept / 2025
Etihad Airways
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Eid Mubarak
Brand Film / 2024
Street Clean
Concept / 2024
Keeta
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Divorce
Concept / 2025
PlayStation
Brand Collaboration / 2025
Huawei Watch GT 7
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Treona
Brand Film / 2024
Kalamantina
Concept / 2025
Etihad Airways
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Eid Mubarak
Brand Film / 2024
Street Clean
Concept / 2024
Keeta
Brand Collaboration / 2026
Divorce
Concept / 2025
PlayStation
Brand Collaboration / 2025