Omar Gilani is a creative director currently working in animation and games. Originally from the historic city of Peshawar, Pakistan, he went to the U.S. to pursue a PhD in Robotics, but dropped out of the program to tailor a career more aligned with his interest in art, writing, and content creation.
Since then, he has gone on to work for clients like Disney, Dreamworks, Sony Imageworks, the British Council, and Save the Children. In 2018 he created the visual series, Pakistan+, which used interactive media to explore a futuristic Pakistan. That series won many accolades, and has been exhibited around the world. His debut novel, The Lost Children of Paradise, thematically parallels those works.