Animation Director · Animation Supervisor · 2D / 3D / Hybrid
I'm Bader Badruddin, an animation director and supervisor. I've directed for Marvel, supervised cinematics for PlayStation and Riot Games, animated for Disney, been published by Capcom — and I'm building an original film of my own.
I directed the cinematics for Ruined King: A League of Legends Story — the in-game cutscenes, the opening, and its emotional ending. It was the first time the Ruined King had ever been portrayed in animation, so I dug deep into the lore with Riot to put the trauma that forged this king into every frame. One of the projects I'm most attached to.
The first time Ajani was ever seen in animation — before this he existed only in card art. My job was to find the character: the balance between barely-contained rage and the grace underneath it. The fanbase's reception was tremendous, and the animated pitch I made went on to help secure an 8×45-minute Netflix series.
The announcement trailer for Sony's Horizon spin-off, animated entirely in-engine. The brief was anime-influenced fight choreography that still had to live inside the game's strict technical limits — hand-drawn kinetic energy, rendered by the game itself. It comes straight out of working in both AAA cinematics and independent film.
Yaqoot is my original film — a mother's relentless journey against impossible odds to save her son's life. It's a story about sacrifice and resilience, built on anime and cinematic storytelling traditions in an original world of its own.
The script is complete and has been through review with industry colleagues who have decades of directing experience between them. Of everything on this page, this is the fullest expression of my voice as a filmmaker.
It started long before that: first as a comic, then as an animated short I made solo in two months back in 2014, teaching myself to make 3D move like hand-drawn anime.
LEGEND OF YAQOOT — the 2014 short. Made solo in two months to bring the character to life in stylised, 2D-anime-flavoured animation.
Digital paintings published in Capcom's official Street Fighter 25th Anniversary Art Book.
Outside of directing, I make games solo in Godot — design, code, and art. These two are finished and playable in your browser.
An action platformer set in the back alleys of Senkawa City. Seven zones, 28 rooms, four bosses, and a big moveset — slash, dash, wall-jump, hover, timewarp. The demo gives you all twelve abilities from the start so you can get straight to the fun part.
A bright, bouncy mascot platformer somewhere between Bubsy and Sonic. Eight stages, a world map, one boss. All the art is mine, and most of the dev time went into making the jump feel right.
Lead animation supervisor on PlayStation's Horizon: Hunters Gathering cinematic — directing performance, action choreography, and final shot polish, while animating hero sequences myself.
Promoted from supervisor to Animation Director on Marvel's Eyes of Wakanda (Disney+); embedded with the showrunner in LA shaping the show's action language end-to-end. Along the way, supervised AAA game cinematics including Riot's Ruined King announcement and Tales of Runeterra.
Character animation on Disney's The Little Mermaid (2023) and Lady and the Tramp; creature and character work on Marvel's Moon Knight.
Established the animation look — performance, posing, timing — for a stylised 2.5D preschool series ahead of production handover.
Animation Director on the BAFTA-nominated CBeebies series Go Jetters; six years from animator through lead to the director track.
Built a school around quick-turnaround daily live sessions — teaching students to ship work without preciousness. Alumni placed at Blue Zoo, MPC, ILM, DNEG, and Jellyfish within their first year.
Established the regional animation academy from scratch; designed curriculum and talent pipelines in partnership with Cartoon Network.
Animated for Polygon Pictures, Disney, Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon across TV series, commercials, and film VFX.
Animator, animation supervisor, and animation director roles — Saudi Arabia, UK, and remote.
MA — 3D Computer Animation
Bournemouth University 2014
BSc — Information Technology
American InterContinental University 2004
Arabic native · English native
Thai conversational · Japanese basic