About me

My name is Mahir Hisar and I am an Art Director, specializing in motion graphics. Over 2 decades, I designed for different purposes. I live in Istanbul - Turkey. I started my career as a graphic designer. Previously, I worked within advertising agencies, digital agencies and production companies.

My latest position was a Senior Art Director at Project Istanbul. We designed mapping shows and interactive applications for our clients. Creating stories or show plans and visualize them, Sound mix-FX, editing, motion design was my part of responsibilities.

I was an Art Director at Telesine Production. In this position my responsibilities was coordinate my team for pre-production, production and post production tasks. Our team created storyboards, characters designs, concept designs, motion graphics, 2D-3D graphics and more. We created 60 episodes TV animation series called "Ciciki" and Tv commercials.

Now, I create motion designs for agencies, event- entertainment companies and other clients.
I am a creative person, my personal skills are good judgment, time planer, make cool decisions, being a great communicator, positive thinker, negative feedback absorber, stay focused, organized while working. Being a shield against very stressful due to the tight deadlines.

I design, coordinate, and organize priorities. Inspiration, and designs are continuous creative evolution for me. Solution finder is my second name for multiple tasks. (swiss army knife man)

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My Specialties
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Create a concept
Visualize an idea
Design an idea from storyboard
3D Mograph Animation, Modelling And Rendering
3D Stage or Product Visualization
Design abstract motion graphics with X-Particles
Composting with After Effects
Mid Level Unreal Engine Designer
More and more Particles with Particles and Stardust on After Effects

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Main design applications and plugins that I often use...
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Cinema 4D (7 Years) No More Maya :)
Redshift (6 Years) and Cycles 4D (2 Years) For Render
X-Particles (5 Years)
After Effects For Composting (15 Years)
Premiere and Media Encoder For Video Processing (15 Years)
Photoshop and Illustrator (over 20 Years)
Unreal Engine (3 Years)
Red Giant Plugins - Trapcode, Magic Bullet, Universe (15 Years)
RE:Vision Effects Plugins (10 Years)
Stardust, Plexus, Element, Optical Flares (10 Years)