Ayman Abdel-Basset


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Ayman Abdel-Basset
www.mbasset.com
Kuwait

Ayman Abdel-Basset is Egyptian but living in Kuwait. He's long loved cinema and the digital image. He so enjoyed the field of TV that he began writing for a magazine in Cairo. When was 16 he was invited to be on the jury committee for the Cairo International Film Festival for young people cinema because of work in children's tv programs & serials. Later he was invited to attend Lucas Film Festival at Frankfurt.

While there, he liked the effects of the films so much that it made him realize that was what he wanted to do with his life.

When Ayman was 18, he learned linear editing at Egyptian Radio TV Union. Then he worked as linear editor in many studios in Egypt making video clips and TV commercials (DIGITAL STUDIO & I.T.S & MAGIC ART) on linear systems of CHARISMA Xvtl & DME3000&5000&7000 with Grass Valley & Sony switchers.

After working for a year as linear editor, Ayman took some classes in Web Design. He liked flash so much that it was his first step into the nonlinear world.

Ayman has trained on many nonlinear and VFX systems and has worked as a nonlinear editor using Fast Liquid Silver and Discreet Edit. Recently, he's also used a Smoke, but his first love is Combustion integrated with Edit 6. Ayman even developed a way to write Arabic text in Combustion v2 despite the lack of Arabic support and the fact that it is running on an English operating system.

Lately, Ayman has added training to be a DA VENCI 2k COLORIST of telecine color correction. It seems, Ayman just wants to learn it all. Did we mention that he loves the field of special effects?

Ayman worked as freelancer instructor for discreet combustion at discreet certified educational center in Cairo calls YAT.

Now Ayman is living and working in Kuwait for first private TV channel in Kuwait which calls (AL RAI) as senior nonlinear editor on DPS system.

Ayman was honoured in having his work accepted for the wondertouch pIllusion demoreel which screened at NAB and Siggraph 2004.

Congratulations Ayman.

You can find Ayman Abdel-Basset hosting in Creative COW's Autodesk Combustion forum.

Articles by Ayman Abdel-Basset

Autodesk Combustion

Writing a Logo with Light

In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates a quick, easy way to use the eraser of the paint operator and the particle system of Autodesk Combustion to create a nice writing logo effect -- complete with shining rays. This tutorial is for advanced users of Combustion, but also has some useful tips for new users.

Tutorial, Video Tutorial

Autodesk Combustion

Using the Diamond Keyer of Combustion 4 to change a selected color

In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to use the new Diamond Keyer of Autodesk Combustion 4 along with the Color Correction operator to change the selected color of the footage.

Tutorial

Autodesk Combustion

Combustion: Replacing A Color using the Color Suppression Operator

Beginners in Combustion often ask the question: My actor's shirt is green. How do I change it to blue? In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to change one color in an image to another color. And he does it in Combustion without extra plug-ins.

Tutorial

Autodesk Combustion

Combustion: Creating Rays of Sunshine without Plug-ins

In this tutorial, Ayman Abdel-Basset demonstrates how to create the effect of rays without 3rd party plug-ins by using the keying operator and dolly blur operator - creating the illusion of light using simply basic blurs in Combustion.

Tutorial