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BLACK BIRD FX
COMPANY PROFILE
Contact Persons: Ralf Karam General Manager
Cynthia Chebaby Sales & Marketing Manager
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
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ABOUT US In a world of creativity, invention, and innovation, Blackbirdfx was born‌ Headquartered in Baabdath - Lebanon, Blackbirdfx is a production and post-production company that focuses on delivering full media packages to businesses, production houses & agencies in Lebanon and the Middle East. Founded by Ralf Karam, a passionate filmmaker and the creator of the first stereoscopic (Real 3D) film in the Middle East, Blackbirdfx started its operations as a post-production company, then extended its services by introducing production to its workflows.
What we do
Purpose To become a leader in the media industry by providing
Blackbirdfx services expand through a wide spectrum
professional services, mixed with creativity and hard
including:
work.
Advanced Visual Effects 2D Animation
Mission Statement
3D Animation
To build long term relationships with our esteemed
Corporate Identity
clients by providing quality services that exceed their expectations, and by pursuing business through
Motion Capture
innovation and advanced technology. Digital content creation. Social Media marketing campaigns.
Core Values
Architectural Visualization.
We believe in treating our customers with respect, trust Audio Post-Production.
and faith, while we integrate honesty, integrity and business ethics into all aspects of our services.
Subtitling & Dubbing.
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OUR SERVICES Blackbirdfx services expand through a large spectrum ranging from designs and graphic identity all the way to advanced visual effects, 3D Animation, Character design, 2D Animation, Architectural visualization and many more. Digital Film Production
The Red Camera being our favorite, at 6K every detail matters. 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. When it comes to production, 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 many more.
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Post-production As an all-inclusive boutique post house, we’ve had the chance to experiment in state-of-the-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 3D Animation and compositing. 2D & Stereoscopic Editing
3D Photoreal Liquid Simulation
Advanced Compositing (After effects; Nuke)
Infographics
3D Character Creation & Animation
2D Stylized Animation
Sound Productiom 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.
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Digital Media Our main aim being the creation of digital media, we adapted our workflows to be able to deliver web-customized quality. We work on Website creation, info-graphics, web series, and social media campaigns, branding and generating new outside-the-box concepts specific for a targeted audience.
Architectural Visualization What if we decide to mix Architecture and Cinema? 3D Animation being one of our strongest passions, we decided to implement our artistic knowledge and creativity into architecture. We generate concepts and a visual identity, thus giving life to inanimate buildings and pushing generic walkthroughs to the next level. We work with lighting, we work with cameras, we refine the textures, we populate the scenes, we mix live shoot with 3D, and we deliver seamless results.
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PORTFOLIO Below is a selection of some of the projects we have worked on:
ANIS
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Anis is a short feature quality animated film depicting the ... READ MORE
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Domty Juice Animated
TVC,
Fully
CG
Scenery,
Character animation ....WATCH HERE
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Jammoul & Samimija Animated
TV
Series
for
Television ...WATCH TRAILER
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Kuwait
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Flawless
Architectural visualization for Quantum Development shot entirely on Green Screen...WATCH HERE
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Coke Studio
This TVC Includes Special effects and Fully CG Packshots and liquid ....WATCH HERE
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DELTA - Jelly
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WATCH NOW
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Elissa - Assad Wahda Watch here
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DIE KRONE VON ARKUS German Feature film directed by Franziska Pohlmann ... WATCH TRAILER
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MEET OUR TEAM Ralf Karam General Manager
Cynthia Chebaby Marketing Manager
Cendrella Abi Gerges Head of Production
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.
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Shadi Abi Chacra Head of Sound
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.
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