Visual Effects
Most visual effects work is meant not to be seen. A rig removed, a crowd extended, a sky replaced, a logo taken off a wall that could not be cleared — the shots nobody mentions afterwards are the ones that worked.
The rest is the shot that was always going to be built rather than filmed. Compositing in Saudi Arabia usually means finishing inside the same room the film was cut in, and that is how it works here — it is composited in the same pipeline the film is cut and graded in, so a change in the effect does not mean starting the finish again.
Ahmed Gonaim is a video editor and filmmaker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Visual Effects for government bodies, brands and production agencies across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
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- Visual Effects
- BASED
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- EXPERIENCE
- 15+ years
- LANGUAGES
- Arabic · English
- STUDIO
- Direct Group · Riyadh
- Clean-up, rig and object removal
- Set extensions and crowd work
- Screen replacements and inserts
- Compositing, keying and rotoscoping
- Particle, light and atmosphere work
Commercial · brand film · event film · projection and mapping content
Can something be removed that we did not plan for?
Usually. It is the most common request that arrives after a shoot, and how hard it is depends far more on camera movement than on the object.
Do you do green screen?
Keying, spill and integration, yes. The integration is the part that decides whether it holds — a clean key still looks pasted on if the light does not match.
Can you work from a locked edit?
Yes, and it is the efficient order: effects built only for the shots that survived the cut.