OUTCAST ACADEMY

Yousaf Ejaz Khan is a highly experienced concept artist and visual development specialist with over two decades of experience in the games and entertainment industry. Currently working as a Senior Concept Artist at Ubisoft, he has contributed to major AAA titles including Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Star Wars Outlaws, helping shape visually rich and immersive worlds.

Throughout his career, Yousaf has developed a strong foundation in design, composition, and storytelling, with a deep understanding of both stylized and realistic visual approaches. His work reflects a balance of artistic vision and production-ready thinking, making him a valuable contributor to large-scale game development pipelines.

He specializes in concept art, visual development, and exploratory design, with a focus on mood, color, and world-building. Alongside production work, he actively explores personal projects and artistic studies, constantly pushing creative boundaries and refining his craft.

Hassam is a self taught Character/creature and texture artist with over 10 years of experience in Animation and Visual effects having contributed to block busters like Fantastic 4, Guardians of the galaxy vol03, A Minecraft movie, Fantastic 4, SupePets, captain america brave new world etc.

He specializes in photoreal and stylized texturing, lookdev, sculpting and design and currently working as a senior texture artist at Sony Pictures Imageworks Canada.

Aadil Sharif is a self-taught 3D Vegetation Artist specializing in game-ready foliage and real-time environment assets. He began learning 3D in 2018 and entered the game industry professionally as a vegetation artist in 2022 where he contributed to his first AAA title "South of Midnight".

He has since worked with several internationally recognized studios, including Onyx Studios (Malaysia), Next Gen Dreams 3D (Australia), and Dekogon Studios (USA), contributing vegetation assets for production-level game environments. He focuses on practical, performance-friendly vegetation workflows used in real game pipelines. In his teaching, he breaks down complex techniques into clear, repeatable steps to help students build industry-ready vegetation for games.