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Company Profile
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Contact Persons:
Ralf Karam
Cynthia Chebaby
E: Ralf@Blackbirdfx.net T: +961-4-825244 EXT.104 M: +961-3-219438
E: C.Chebaby@Blackbirdfx.net T: +961-4-825244 EXT.101 M: +961-3-464174
General Manager
Sales & Marketing Manager
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Impress. Intrigue. Inspire.
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EXPERIENCE THE AUDIO-VISUAL WORLD LIKE NEVER BEFORE
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In a world of creativity, invention, and innovation, BlackbirdFX was born‌
BlackbirdFX is a one-stop production house and animation studio based in Lebanon, that focuses on delivering full media high-quality packages to agencies, production houses, and businesses across Europe & the Middle East.
At BlackbirdFX, we merge your vision with our creativity to give birth to endless possibilities.
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Driven by strong passion and vibrant imagination, our highly enthusiastic and dedicated team steps outside the ordinary to present projects that simply make an impact. When you come to us with a request, we will break the norm by diving into the deepest realms and soaring beyond the highest boundaries, to create an exceptional product that will shift heads and impress your audience.
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1. DIGITAL FILM PRODUCTION We deal with the production phase carefully and efficiently. Most of our projects are post-production heavy, leaving our VFX supervisors roaming the sets taking measurements and doing their calculations. Their job during the shoot is what makes the post-production work exquisite. Most of our production work revolves around TV Commercials, Corporate videos and Visual effect shots.
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Figure (1) - Green Screen shoot | Forest Studios - Sin El fil
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BLACK BIRD Figure (2) - New Beirut Project | Concept Art
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2. POST-PRODUCTION As an all-inclusive boutique post house, we’ve had the chance to experiment in state-ofthe-art technology, equipment, techniques and workflows for the creation and technical delivery of high quality media content. Our post-production services go all the way from editing to high-end visual effects. Storyboarding & Concept Art 2D & Stereoscopic Editing Color Grading Advanced Compositing (After effects; Nuke) TV Branding & Identity Creation Infographics Figure (3) - New Beirut Project | Concept Art
Advanced VFX
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3. CHARACTER CREATION & ANIMATION With our team of 2D and 3D experts, we create eye-catching, lovable characters ready to come to life with the professional stylized touch of our top animators. www.blackbirdfx.net | info@blackbirdfx.net +961-4-825244
Figure (4) - Characters | Created by Blackbirdfx
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4. TABLETOPS & LIQUID SIMULATIONS
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Shooting small objects and liquids with a live camera can be an exhausting and expensive process. This is where we come in with our delicate approach to 3D liquid simulations & renderings of close-up elements, thus providing more control and precision over your high-speed shots.
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Figure (5) - Liquid Simulations | Created by Blackbirdfx
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5. SOUND & MUSIC PRODUCTION Sound is life in media. Having state-of-the-art visuals with poor sound design can have a destructive effect on the product. We don’t see sound as a technical process; we see it as a creative one. The sound designer is on the project since its inception, brainstorming with the client and crew, giving ideas, sharing thoughts, and having a creative input. www.blackbirdfx.net | info@blackbirdfx.net www.blackbirdfx.net +961-4-825244 info@blackbirdfx.net +961-4-825244
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6. MOTION CAPTURE We specialize in Motion Capture shooting. This technique being widely used in Hollywood, remains untouched in the arab world. Motion Capture allows us to capture the actions of a real actor and automatically apply the data captured to an animated character. Our equipment allows us to have both Facial and body motion capture. This technique has been applied in blockbuster movies such as Avatar, Lord of the rings, Harry Potter, Dawn of the planet of the Apes and much more.
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7. VIRTUAL REALITY Put your headset on and allow yourself and your audience to enter the 3D world we created for you. This technology will allow you to immerse yourself and experience a 360째 fully computer generated environment. By delivering extraordinary performance in an advanced 3D design, we create the world you want your audience to project themselves into, offering high resolution rendering of the finest detail, with a real audiovisual experience.
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Cardboard Headset using your smartphone
Oculus Rift Headset
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Figure (6) - Exterior Render. Created by Tarek Gerges | Blackbirdfx
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8. ARCHITECTURAL VISUALISATION Breathe life into your architectural designs with our professional walkthrough services. Whether it’s a simple 3D animation walkthrough or a more advanced commercial production, you can rely on us. While holding the key to communicating concept design, we convert your basic 2D or 3D model into an amazing 3D walkthrough video, with the option of adding our cinematic approach to it, by integrating real actors into the 3D graphic space. From conceptual storyboards to exceptional architectural visualization, to music composition and sound design, we take care of every step, resulting in powerful videos that you can proudly use in your presentations, gladly post on the web, or confidently share with your clients.
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> SHOWREEL Take a look at our latest showreel for a glimpse of our work.
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WATCH HERE
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> MEET OUR TEAM Ralf Karam
Owner | General Manager
Cynthia Chebaby Marketing Manager
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Shadi Abi Chacra Head of Sound
Aly Farroukh Head of Animation
BLACK Ralf Karam is the founder of Blackbirdfx, a production/ post-production company that specializes in motion capture, VFX & 2D-3D Animation. He pursued audio-visual studies at ‘Université Saint-Joseph Lebanon’.
Cynthia E. Chebaby was born on the 25th of October, 1987. She completed her Audiovisual studies at the Saint Joseph University in Beirut (USJ), and started working as a freelancer in the audio post-production field.
His graduation film (Insanity Crescendo) was the first stereoscopic (real 3D) film in the Middle East region.
Yet her love for business, which guided her to work in the sales and marketing department of many companies, finally led her to BlackbirdFX, in which she was able to mix her two passions, business and cinema, by being the Sales and Marketing manager, with the main duty of promoting audiovisual and media services.
Ralf Karam went on with his studies and finished screenwriting classes at NYFA New York along with four 3D Animation online classes with the Gnomon workshop.
Cendrella Abi Gerges was born on the 28th of July 1987. After acquiring a diploma in cinema studies, Cendrella went on to build a career in film production and film festivals. Cendrella worked as associate producer and publicist on the feature film “Ghadi” directed by Amin Dora after gaining experience producing several short films, and working on well renowned film festivals in Beirut. She started working with Metropolis Association as project coordinator on two regional educational programs; NAAS training an Arthouse Cinema Management and Programming Workshop, and Talents Beirut the newest branch of Berlinale Talents tailored for the needs of the Arab world, to take in charge the young audience programme and activities.
Shadi Abi Chacra was born on the 24th march of 1986, in Mazraat Al Chouf, Lebanon. He grew up in Brumana town, where he developed a love for art in many of its forms. At an early age, he started composing music and playing with various bands. From a secular to a catholic school, his fascination with art got him into writing prose and poetry, with a twist of dark romance and spiritual delirium, as he ventured into books of occult science and philosophy. After experimenting with photography and photo manipulations, he attended the Saint Joseph University in Audiovisual studies. Impressed by symbolism, experimental and psychological horror movies, he found himself gathering all of his hobbies and passions into the art of sound design and filmmaking.
Aly Farroukh is an animation graduate from Academie Libanaise des Beaux Arts. His passion as a 3D artist and director led him to perfect the work from from designing to 3D modelling, texturing, rigging, animating and simulations. Aly is also talented in the field of VFX, SFX, infographics, life and anatomical drawing, screen writing, story telling, 2D and stop motion animation.
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Aly joined Blackbirdfx as a character designer and made his way to become head of animation. Aly is now pursuing his masters in the field of advanced character design and modeling. His graduation animated short film has been recognized in many international festivals www.blackbirdfx.net | info@blackbirdfx.net +961-4-825244
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Impress. Intrigue. Inspire.
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BLACK BIRD FX
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