Abdullah Moatasem
Chief Creative Officer / Co-Founder — Sinai.ai / Sinai Studios
Abdullah Moatasem is Chief Creative Officer and co-founder of Sinai.ai and Sinai Studios, a hybrid animation production company creating culturally grounded work for Arab and wider MENA audiences. A professional character designer and animator with more than 13 years of experience, he has worked at Netflix Animation, Disney, SPA Studios, and Warner Bros. Animation, with recent studio credit on Disney’s announced project Oswald, directed by Jon Favreau.
Through Sinai Studios, Moatasem is developing a new production model that combines traditional animation craft with AI-driven workflows to bring authentic regional stories to global audiences.
At SACC, he will share insights from building animation across borders, hybrid creative pipelines, and producing new MENA-focused work, including City of Brass.