Mernan Behri
Game Designer and Concept Artist.
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Biography
First of all thank you for your interest in my work! This is my personal space where I share most of what I've been doing with my life. Here's a summary about what I do (/‾▿‾)/★ Born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I also lived and worked in Canada, Tokyo, Malaysia, and now back to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.★ Honors Bachelor of Game Design from Sheridan college. Specialized in Concept art, asset implementation, texturing and QA playtesting. 2017★ Cultivating Creativity (workshop) hosted at Misk Art week and Saudi Media Forum. 2023★ Creator of BISSA comic published by MangaArabia. 2022★ The Journey (2021 film) logo design contributor. Helped develop the Arabic logo design with Mohammed Aldhafeeri & Turki AlMasbahi.★ A.I Artathon art mentor. Live advisor during all 3 days of the Artathon competition, to raise awareness about artificial intelligence through art. 2019★ TEDxAlhamraa speaker. The talk focused on the creative process behind content creation in the MENA region → watch here. 2019★ Supervised 14 interns under Manga Production's first collaboration with Kadokawa Gempak Starz. 2019★ Interned at Manga Production's animation principles course with TOEI Animation. 2018★ Hosted art/game related workshops in collaboration with Effat university and Dar Al Hekma. 2017★ Artist for the children literature book: Tawak Fi Mahab AReeh (Tawak blown by the wind). Currently an official part of the UAE Arabic Language & Literature curriculum. 2016★ Founded my first narrative based gallery in co-production with Mikandi 2012★ Obtained a recommendation from Leo Burnett for youngest advertising storyboard artist. 2011★ Winner of the Daratsb children award for best fan design. 2007Click on the document icon below to download my full portfolio
GHOUL'S CAVE (2020)
★ Game Designer. Ghoul's Cave is a free-to-play strategy game like no other, packed with power-ups and card packs to protect your cave and support gatherers, inspired by one of the episodes of the famous Saudi Japanese anime series Future's Folktales
DETECTIVE VR (2017)
★ Lead art director. The game is a based in the 1980’s where you play as a detective who solves crimes by investigating the crime scene, collecting evidence, and interrogating a suspect until you get a confession.Level Up Showcase 2017 games worth getting to know
Level Up showcases the bright future of the game industry
Get to know the winning Level Up games by Sheridan College
Sheridan students sweep Level Up showcase in Toronto
DEVLOG
GUARDIANS OF UTM (2016)
★ Game designer. Adventure game designed for new students as an orientation tool. Created pixel backgrounds based on real locations of the University of Toronto campus . developed a character generator, and implemented puzzles that encourage students to explore the university and collect QR codes.New UTM students quest to solve puzzles and explore campus RPG style
The Guardians are coming to UTM!
SOCIAL CHAOS (2014)
★ 1st place award winning game for Sheridan's Sprint week. Social boardgame highlighting the effects of bullying. Created over 80+ cards artworks, contributed to the game board and designed physical playable characters. This game was also selected to be showcased at DigiFest Toronto and Toronto International Film Festival.
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Commission info
Terms and Conditions:
★ Full payment upfront!
★ USD only via paypal
★ Only 3 rounds of feedback available (thumbnail, sketch, work-in-progress).
★ Time frame, level of details, additional characters, and late modifications will affect the overall price.
★ Please specify preferred resolution and file type (PDF, PNG, JPEG.. etc)
★ Credit me when you share my work on your social media or plan on creating merch of it.Requirements:
★ Please state if there's tight deadline (might affect the overall price)
★ References (pinterest board, character sheet(s), elaborate illustration(s), a vision board, sketches, pictures, etc)
★ Written description (brief, essential information, dimensions)
If by any chance you're thinking about commissioning me please refer to the contact form in the biography section!