Humma.AI

Developing an interactive story for marketing with creative team including Omar Francia and Tillavision .

Producer/Writer

Weirdbunch Entertainment

Co-Founder and Head of Technology for our multinational entertainment studio focused on all ages entertainment ranging from superheroes to mythological adventures.

Co-Founder

Marvel Entertainment

- Co-writer DAREDEVIL AND ECHO series premiered MAY 2023
- Co-writer DEADLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN debuting SEPTEMBER 2022.
- Co-writer GHOST RIDER: KUSHALA (2021) series.
- Co-writer WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (2020) series.
- Co-writer MARVEL #1000 (2019)
- Co-writer MASTERS OF THE SUN (2017) graphic novel

Writer

Sudowrite

I have been producing and creating videos talking about how we can use the software in our creative writing and brainstorming endeavors.

Creative Producer

Lore Machine

Writer / Advisor

The Philosophical Research Society

I have been running workshops teaching Tarot as a storytelling tool used to better explore symbols and our connection to a universal journey.

Educator

Gaumont

Four projects in various stages of development and sale.

Executive Producer

Pithy Publishing

Co-founded Pithy Publishing, a publisher focusing on short form content, flash fiction, pulp stories, and genre fiction. Our tagline is “Books that get to the point.”

VentureBeat

Contributing Writer

SkyView Way

Founding partner with Taboo of Black Eyed Peas. SkyView Way Studios is focused on multi-cultural narratives, with a primary lens through the Native American and Meso-American experience. Four projects in development with Gaumont. One project in development with Cartoon Network. Directing the documentary BALISTYX, a story focused on when hip-hop first came to the Sunset Strip. Our slate is focused on the core concept "Mythology through Music" and ranges from pre-school to adult.

Partner

I have been working in the entertainment business for the past 20 years ranging from documentaries to graphic novels to feature films to community building. Currently I am writing for Marvel Comics while producing projects with my creative partner, Taboo, under our SkyView Way Studios banner. We have projects currently set up with Cartoon Network and Gaumont. 

I am also heavily involved in the blockchain space, using NFTs as storytelling nodes for both community and world-building. The current project I am running and creating is called Chiwawows (www.chiwawows.com) which is built on the Solana Blockchain. I have two other story-driven NFT projects in development called Realms of Avalon and Angryfoot.

My focus is to create multi-media experiences in entertainment using new and emerging technologies that engage communities into creative activity. 

Having founded the largest comic book club in LA in 2008 called COMIC BOOK SUNDAY! (CBS!), with members around the globe, my finger is on the pulse of what is trending across the board and my access to those creators is unparalleled. 

Specialties: Writing, Producing, Event Production, Community Building, Film/TV, Comic Books/Graphic Novels, VR Storytelling, Video Games, Film Editing, Product Management, Team Building, Web Content Development.

B. Earl

ALTER LTD

Ape Harbour 

Founded in June 2021, Ape Harbour is the world's first metaverse shipyard.

Creative Director

Beaconhouse National University, Lahore

Visiting faculty at the School of Visual Arts and Design. Responsibilities include teaching, managing the curriculum and facilitating undergrads for the following courses:

-Illustration II 

The course students intensify their research practice in illustration.
Editorial illustration and other indirect yet playful applications are explored. Emphasis is placed on the elements and dynamics of style and language. Students are expected to develop their own personal vocabulary for illustration by the end of the course.

-Typography and Layout

The course introduces students to the basics of digital typography and creating imagery/layouts through the use of type. Students are familiarized with specific terminology regarding font classification, measurement, placement and page arrangement.

Further emphasis is placed on understanding the semiotic value of fonts and the importance of applying it appropriately to the message.

-Visual Communication Design Major Studio I 

In this course, students are familiarized with areas of visual communication such as information, orientation, documentation, and narration through short, experimental assignments. The emphasis lies on design thinking, strengthening manual and digital execution skills as well as perceptive and conceptual abilities. 

Important approaches such as semiotics are explored through readings and applied to research leading to experiments with a variety of design formats.

Visiting Faculty

Skyspin Studios

Xavor

Training employees in ways of solving critical problems using a creative approach. Enacting as a bridge between developers and designers, eradicating the gap.Trained attendees in the basics of drawing, design and creative thinking.

Creative Consultant

Treble Inc.

Art Director at music based startup Treble. 

The Instagram + Spotify of crowd-sourced music videos. Share videos and connect through music. See how your friends experience songs; what they feel, what memories they share and what stories they tell. 

www.treble.video

Art Director

Mosami Interactive

Mosami was born in 2011, from the collaborations between visual artist Haider Ali, independent graphic designer Zain Naqvi and Architect Talha Muftee.

There’s more to design than what meets the eye,the collaboration unites expertise in graphic design and visual art. The group produces visual identities, branding, packaging, web, print for publications and marketing collateral, exhibition along with motion graphics.

Our work process is founded on a desire to innovate new territories through collaborations with creative visionaries in the fields of architecture, design, art and culture.

Creative Lead

Red Bull

Curated by Zain Naqvi, the ‘Red Bull Canvas Cooler' unveiled a new display that showcased Red Bull coolers reworked into pieces of art by some of the most innovative artists in Pakistan.

Aimed at pushing the art scene boundaries. The first-ever ‘Red Bull Canvas Cooler‘ exhibition brought together pieces from twelve of the most innovative artists in Pakistan to showcase their creativity, imagination, and ingenuity under one roof at the Riots Studio in Lahore.

Supporting art and creative minds of Pakistan, Red Bull Canvas Cooler exhibition was by large attended by people from all walks of life. Be it music, films or media, some of the most prominent faces showed up at the exhibition to support the twelve artists featured on the project. 'The artists have done some amazing artwork' said Ali Hamza from the famous rock band Noori. 'Great project and there should be more projects of such nature in Pakistan' said Shiraz Upal. Bilal Khan, Ali Noor, Farhad Humayun, Umair Jaswal; to name a few were some of the famous names that graced the Red Bull Canvas Cooler exhibition with their presence.

Curator 

CricinGif

Innovating and managing the creative content for the service inclusive of social media, advertisements as well as coming up with marketing strategies.

Freelance

Designed & developed Characters and Sequential Art along with various projects in print, branding, 
apps, publications and illustration for a variety of clients in domestic and overseas markets.

Illustrator/Designer

Co-founder of Alter, a platform that helps creators and brands from emerging economies connect with collectors and fans around the world through the power of Web3 and Ape Harbour, a generative project catering to the sailors of the Metaverse.  

Over a decade of experience working within the startup and corporate sector with work featured in Forbes, Fast Company, MangAsia.

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B. Earl

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