I’m Mustafa Khasamwala — a Senior Animator with 13+ years of experience working across Games, CG and VFX.

Over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to work on some seriously fun projects, including Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, Skull and Bones, AEW Fight Forever, Loki 2, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Knuckles, Stree 2, Strays, Quantumania and Leo, along with a whole lot of other games, films, TV series and commercial projects.

My experience covers a pretty wide animation spectrum: gameplay, cinematics, facial animation, mocap cleanup, keyframe animation and creature animation. I’ve worked on everything from realistic human performances to giant creatures like Godzilla, right down to smaller creatures like squirrels — basically, if it moves, there’s a good chance I’ve had to animate it.

I have excelled in both keyframe animation and mocap cleanup. I enjoy taking raw motion, a simple idea or an existing performance and pushing it until the movement feels intentional, believable and alive.

I’ve also spent a significant part of my career working as a freelancer, which taught me that being an animator sometimes means being much more than an animator. I’ve supervised artists, managed projects, coordinated directly with clients, handled schedules, looked for new business and taken responsibility for getting projects from “we should make this” to “it’s done.”

What really keeps me excited, though, is learning.

I love being thrown into something I haven’t done before. New software, unfamiliar pipelines, different styles, new technologies or a completely ridiculous animation problem — I enjoy figuring things out. After 13+ years in the industry, I still think the best part of the job is discovering something I didn’t know yesterday.

So yes, I animate.

But I also like to learn, experiment, solve problems, break things, fix them and occasionally make a character look much cooler than it had any right to.

That’s what keeps me interested. And after all these years, I’m still having fun.