Hot topics on hot days in hot areas - we like to introduce Khalid Al-Muharraqi the COO of Muharraqi-Studios to you today.

I saw some of your visualisations, they are hot. Is there any correlation between the temperature in Bahrain (right now Bahrain has temperatures of 40°C and more) and your work?

Very possibly so during the summer, it is just not possible to go out. While the temperature is technically somewhere in the forties (in the shade), the humidity can be anywhere from 50% to 80% which makes the apparent temperature somewhere in the fifties!!!

So, yes, I do tend to spend a lot of time indoors staring at my screens.

You describe yourself as an artist and inspite of the pure mass of so called 'CG artists', I think you are a more classical one.

At the age of eleven you sold your first oil painting. Since you normally don't start with oil paintings and end up in computer graphics, tell us, how did this work out for you?

I recently gave a presentation entitled "Life evolves, so does art". For me, there is no beginning or end to art and I am a product of all of the influences in my life. It just so happens that I watched more movies and played more video games and just got more and more involved in using computers. In reality, I have been in advertising for the last 14 years and I only really started getting into 3D in the last year or so.

Khalid, you once said, you are pretty much influenced by your father Abdulla Al-Muharraqi, who is a well known artist in Arabia. You were educated in the US, were you influenced by this experience too? Did you experience any influence from European artists, I am thinking here about the classics, like Vincent van Gogh, or even Russian ones, like those suprematism people around Kasimir Severinovic Malevitch?

Well I got influence from my father mainly , but I love the art of Frank
Farazetta - Sorayama -, Many game companies like Konami - Capcom and
others.... I would say that the art is all around us we just have to look
carefully, it is in every product we have....