Can you tell us a little about your company, Muharraqi Studios, its success, and the team?

I set up Muharraqi Studios when I left my advertising company a year ago. I had explored a number of options and ended up partnering with an old friend of mine, Rashad. He is a banker by profession, but was looking to do something more creative and I needed someone who could handle the organisational side of things. Together we make a good team because there is a lot of history between us; we each know where the other is coming from and feel the same way about things.  We also work closely with my brother Mohammed and other friends who participate in various projects and provide us with a strong network of support for whatever we are doing, whether it is writers, modellers, animators, software and hardware engineers, the list goes on and on. We would never be able to do what we do without all their help and dedication.

What is most important for us is to always have fun and do things that are interesting to us. Our long term objectives are to get into movie projects, but are working our way towards that slowly.

Khalid, as I read in your interview with Ben Vost on Newtek Europe, you started using LightWave3D in 2002. And I know you are using infiniMap Pro, well, our current beta.... So you're one of five people who are using infiniMap Pro right now. The rest has to wait until the end of Oktober. What are your first experiences?

Since a lot of what we are doing right now are architectural visualisations for large developments, we have been facing a lot of capacity issues with the number of polygons on screen and the sizes of files. Infinimap has been an excellent tool to enable us to work more efficiently and do things that we would not otherwise have been able to, basically I don't think we would have completed this project without the pust of Infinimap, it has proven stable and very easy to use even onto our render farm,  we have rendered over 6 day continually and it was smooth!