FARAZ SHANYAR (Iran)

The Art Department | World Tour

Originally from Iran concept artist Faraz Shanyar now is based in Sweden after living in Malaysia, Canada and the UK.

Faraz has captured our hearts with his designs for the films The Lion King, Aladdin, the Witcher books, the video-games Wolfenstein, Shadow of War Outlast 2, among others.

He currently works as a senior concept artist for Machinegames in Sweden. A job he considers the best job experience he has had until this point.

Faraz will participate in a panel together with Amir Zand and host Danar Worya about the journey of Middle Eastern artists in the Western creative industry. 

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